linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 024/190] Revert "drm/amdkfd: Fix reference count leaks."

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Message-ID: <YIgUlTFJonk12acY@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:41:41 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Qiushi Wu <wu000273@....edu>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 024/190] Revert "drm/amdkfd: Fix reference count leaks."

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 11:14:11AM -0400, Felix Kuehling wrote:
> On 2021-04-21 8:58 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This reverts commit 20eca0123a35305e38b344d571cf32768854168c.
> > 
> > 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: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@....com>
> > Cc: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@....com>
> > Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> 
> As far as I can tell, this patch was correct and should not be reverted.

Thanks for the review, now dropped.

greg k-h