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Date:   Mon, 26 Apr 2021 18:53:24 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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        Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 105/190] Revert "libnvdimm/btt: Fix a kmemdup failure
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 01:49:39PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 6:08 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > This reverts commit 486fa92df4707b5df58d6508728bdb9321a59766.
> >
> > 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: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
> > Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> Upon re-review, this fix still looks good to me, revert is not necessary.

Thanks for the review, I'll drop the revert.

greg k-h