From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 187/190] Revert "ALSA: control: fix a redundant-copy issue"
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:57:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YIgYPJppESvcLbLY@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5h5z0fa9dc.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 06:30:07PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:01:02 +0200,
> Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >
> > This reverts commit 3f12888dfae2a48741c4caa9214885b3aaf350f9.
> >
> > 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@umn.edu>
> > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> > Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> This one is, unlike other patches I've been involved with, about the
> ALSA core code, and this change is likely worth to keep.
>
> The code change is correct, and even though it's really a minor issue,
> an optimization is right.
Thanks for the review, now dropped.
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20210421130105.1226686-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-04-21 12:58 ` [PATCH 040/190] Revert "ACPI: CPPC: Fix reference count leak in acpi_cppc_processor_probe()" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21 17:54 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-04-27 14:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21 12:58 ` [PATCH 041/190] Revert "ACPI: sysfs: Fix reference count leak in acpi_sysfs_add_hotplug_profile()" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21 17:54 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-04-27 14:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21 12:59 ` [PATCH 081/190] Revert "tracing: Fix a memory leak by early error exit in trace_pid_write()" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21 13:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-04-21 13:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-04-21 13:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-27 12:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21 12:59 ` [PATCH 119/190] Revert "tty: mxs-auart: fix a potential NULL pointer dereference" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-22 5:03 ` Jiri Slaby
2021-04-26 17:03 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21 12:59 ` [PATCH 120/190] Revert "tty: atmel_serial: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-22 5:18 ` Jiri Slaby
2021-04-22 6:47 ` Richard Genoud
2021-04-26 17:04 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21 12:59 ` [PATCH 121/190] Revert "serial: mvebu-uart: Fix to avoid " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-22 5:25 ` Jiri Slaby
2021-04-21 13:00 ` [PATCH 134/190] Revert "md: Fix failed allocation of md_register_thread" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-28 5:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-30 6:10 ` Song Liu
2021-04-30 6:34 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21 13:00 ` [PATCH 181/190] Revert "dm ioctl: harden copy_params()'s copy_from_user() from malicious users" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-27 16:58 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21 13:01 ` [PATCH 187/190] Revert "ALSA: control: fix a redundant-copy issue" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-21 16:30 ` Takashi Iwai
2021-04-27 13:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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