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Subject: Re: [PATCH 040/190] Revert "ACPI: CPPC: Fix reference count leak in
 acpi_cppc_processor_probe()"
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>, "4 . 10+" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
References: <20210421130105.1226686-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Organization: Intel Technology Poland Sp. z o. o., KRS 101882, ul. Slowackiego
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Date:   Wed, 21 Apr 2021 19:54:03 +0200
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On 4/21/2021 2:58 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit 4d8be4bc94f74bb7d096e1c2e44457b530d5a170.
>
> 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@umn.edu>
> Cc: 4.10+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.10+
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>


> ---
>   drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 1 -
>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
> index 69057fcd2c04..42650b34e45e 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
> @@ -830,7 +830,6 @@ int acpi_cppc_processor_probe(struct acpi_processor *pr)
>   			"acpi_cppc");
>   	if (ret) {
>   		per_cpu(cpc_desc_ptr, pr->id) = NULL;
> -		kobject_put(&cpc_ptr->kobj);
>   		goto out_free;
>   	}
>