Re: [PATCH 085/190] Revert "audit: fix a memory leak bug"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 06:26:47PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 12:18:44PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 9:04 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > This reverts commit 70c4cf17e445264453bc5323db3e50aa0ac9e81f.
> > >
> > > 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: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@xxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  kernel/auditfilter.c | 12 +++++-------
> > >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > 
> > NACK on this revert.  I've looked at the original patch again this
> > morning, and the original patch still looks correct and doesn't appear
> > to introduce any new faults to the best of my understanding.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the review, much appreciate it, I'll drop it.

Now dropped.