linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 088/190] Revert "mmc_spi: add a status check for spi_sync

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Message-ID: <YIkMOrfvuW0J/ioi@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:18:18 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 088/190] Revert "mmc_spi: add a status check for
 spi_sync_locked"

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 04:19:07PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:23PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This reverts commit 611025983b7976df0183390a63a2166411d177f1.
> > 
> > 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: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>
> > Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
> > Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>

Thanks for the review!

> I don't spot an obvious issue with the original patch though.

Ulf did :)