linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 003/190] Revert "media: sti: Fix reference count leaks"

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Date:   Thu, 29 Apr 2021 22:00:49 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Qiushi Wu <wu000273@....edu>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 003/190] Revert "media: sti: Fix reference count leaks"

On Wed 2021-04-21 14:57:58, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit 6f4432bae9f2d12fc1815b5e26cc07e69bcad0df.
> 
> 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.

NAK. This fixes minor bug and should not be reverted.
										Pavel

> @@ -272,7 +272,6 @@ static unsigned long int hva_hw_get_ip_version(struct hva_dev *hva)
>  
>  	if (pm_runtime_get_sync(dev) < 0) {
>  		dev_err(dev, "%s     failed to get pm_runtime\n", HVA_PREFIX);
> -		pm_runtime_put_noidle(dev);
>  		mutex_unlock(&hva->protect_mutex);
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  	}
> @@ -555,7 +554,6 @@ void hva_hw_dump_regs(struct hva_dev *hva, struct seq_file *s)
>  
>  	if (pm_runtime_get_sync(dev) < 0) {
>  		seq_puts(s, "Cannot wake up IP\n");
> -		pm_runtime_put_noidle(dev);
>  		mutex_unlock(&hva->protect_mutex);
>  		return;
>  	}

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