linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 166/190] Revert "infiniband: bnxt_re: qplib: Check the return value of send

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Message-ID: <CANjDDBhAbobpc1nQLoPABCm5onv=qVoJXLyG79RJwxS=cNnijA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Apr 2021 19:45:34 +0530
From:   Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma@...adcom.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 166/190] Revert "infiniband: bnxt_re: qplib: Check the
 return value of send_message"

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 7:38 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:00:41PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This reverts commit 94edd87a1c59f3efa6fdf4e98d6d492e6cec6173.
> >
> > Commits from @umn.edu addresses have been found to be submitted in "bad
> > faith" to try to test the kernel community's ability to review "known
> > malicious" changes.  The result of these submissions can be found in a
> > paper published at the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
> > entitled, "Open Source Insecurity: Stealthily Introducing
> > Vulnerabilities via Hypocrite Commits" written by Qiushi Wu (University
> > of Minnesota) and Kangjie Lu (University of Minnesota).
> >
> > Because of this, all submissions from this group must be reverted from
> > the kernel tree and will need to be re-reviewed again to determine if
> > they actually are a valid fix.  Until that work is complete, remove this
> > change to ensure that no problems are being introduced into the
> > codebase.
> >
> > Cc: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
> > Cc: Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma@...adcom.com>
> > Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/qplib_sp.c | 5 +++--
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Can't see a reason to revert this one, I re-checked the callers error
> paths and it looks OK
>
> Jason
Acked-By: Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma@...adcom.com>


-- 
-Regards
Devesh

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