Re: [PATCH 107/190] Revert "RDMA/i40iw: Handle workqueue allocation failure"

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Apr 27 2021 - 10:23:34 EST


On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 11:07:00AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:42PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This reverts commit e2a438bd7116889af36304903b92e56d0f347228.
> >
> > 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@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Shiraz, Saleem <shiraz.saleem@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw.h | 2 +-
> > drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_cm.c | 18 +++---------------
> > drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_main.c | 5 +----
> > 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> I don't see a reason to revert this one, the new code structure
> appears OK

Thanks, now dropped.

greg k-h