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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Apr 27 2021 - 09:41:47 EST


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@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> As far as I can tell, this patch was correct and should not be reverted.

Thanks for the review, now dropped.

greg k-h