linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 123/190] Revert "netfilter: ip6t

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Message-ID: <20210422212615.GA13017@salvia>
Date:   Thu, 22 Apr 2021 23:26:15 +0200
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 123/190] Revert "netfilter: ip6t_srh: fix NULL pointer
 dereferences"

Hi Greg,

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:58PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit 6d65561f3d5ec933151939c543d006b79044e7a6.
> 
> 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.

This patch looks correct, no need to revert.

If you still prefer to revert it, no problem, I'll recover this fix
via the netfilter tree later on.

Thanks.