linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/7] Revert "regulator: tps65910: fix a missing check of return value"

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Message-ID: <YIq42bcPgic3y6iQ@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 29 Apr 2021 15:47:05 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Kangjie Lu <kjlu@....edu>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] Revert "regulator: tps65910: fix a missing check of
 return value"

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 03:08:09PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit cd07e3701fa6a4c68f8493ee1d12caa18d46ec6a.
> 
> 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 submitted to 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) but later
> withdrawn.
> 
> 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: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/regulator/tps65910-regulator.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/tps65910-regulator.c b/drivers/regulator/tps65910-regulator.c
> index 1d5b0a1b86f7..8ad1ecc1559f 100644
> --- a/drivers/regulator/tps65910-regulator.c
> +++ b/drivers/regulator/tps65910-regulator.c
> @@ -1098,10 +1098,8 @@ static int tps65910_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, pmic);
>  
>  	/* Give control of all register to control port */
> -	err = regmap_set_bits(pmic->mfd->regmap, TPS65910_DEVCTRL,
> +	regmap_set_bits(pmic->mfd->regmap, TPS65910_DEVCTRL,
>  				DEVCTRL_SR_CTL_I2C_SEL_MASK);
> -	if (err < 0)
> -		return err;
>  
>  	switch (tps65910_chip_id(tps65910)) {
>  	case TPS65910:
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 

This looks correct to me, I'll drop the revert.

thanks,

greg k-h