linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 010/190] Revert "media: camss: Fix a reference count leak."

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Date:   Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:43:45 +0200
From:   Robert Foss <robert.foss@...aro.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Qiushi Wu <wu000273@....edu>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 010/190] Revert "media: camss: Fix a reference count leak."

Hi Greg,

Thanks for taking for preventing this type of abuse.

On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 at 15:03, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> This reverts commit d0675b67b42eb4f1a840d1513b5b00f78312f833.
>
> 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: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@....edu>
> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> ---

I think this patch is good, NAK.


Rob.