linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 046/190] Revert "net/mlx4

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Message-ID: <1027d8d1-5cea-0a04-4974-3f9672ff7d4e@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:18:37 +0300
From:   Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Qiushi Wu <wu000273@....edu>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 046/190] Revert "net/mlx4_core: fix a memory leak bug."



On 4/21/2021 3:58 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit febfd9d3c7f74063e8e630b15413ca91b567f963.
> 
> 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: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c
> index f6cfec81ccc3..380e027ba5df 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c
> @@ -2734,7 +2734,7 @@ void mlx4_opreq_action(struct work_struct *work)
>   		if (err) {
>   			mlx4_err(dev, "Failed to retrieve required operation: %d\n",
>   				 err);
> -			goto out;
> +			return;
>   		}
>   		MLX4_GET(modifier, outbox, GET_OP_REQ_MODIFIER_OFFSET);
>   		MLX4_GET(token, outbox, GET_OP_REQ_TOKEN_OFFSET);
> 

Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>

The original commit febfd9d3c7f74063e8e630b15413ca91b567f963 is a bad 
commit. Not to be re-submitted.

Regards,
Tariq