linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 065/190] Revert "nfsd: remove unnecessary assertion in nfsd4_encode

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Date:   Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:32:54 -0400
From:   "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...hat.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 065/190] Revert "nfsd: remove unnecessary assertion in
 nfsd4_encode_replay"

This patch was fine, NAK to the revert.

--b.

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:00PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit fc1b20659597015a30e8ea032f168e97848c1d39.
> 
> 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: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> index eaaa1605b5b5..a3609562671c 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> @@ -5385,6 +5385,8 @@ nfsd4_encode_replay(struct xdr_stream *xdr, struct nfsd4_op *op)
>  	__be32 *p;
>  	struct nfs4_replay *rp = op->replay;
>  
> +	BUG_ON(!rp);
> +
>  	p = xdr_reserve_space(xdr, 8 + rp->rp_buflen);
>  	if (!p) {
>  		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> -- 
> 2.31.1
>