Re: [PATCH 157/190] Revert "Input: ad7879 - add check for read errors in interrupt"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:03:33AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:00:32PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This reverts commit e85bb0beb6498c0dffe18a2f1f16d575bc175c32.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> This one looks really OK to me and does not have to be reverted (unless
> Aditya will come clean and show the error introduced?).

I'll drop this revert, but it isn't usually good to be calling printk()
from an irq.

thanks,

greg k-h