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Date:   Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:00:08 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@gmail.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 046/190] Revert "net/mlx4_core: fix a memory leak bug."
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 02:18:37PM +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/21/2021 3:58 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This reverts commit febfd9d3c7f74063e8e630b15413ca91b567f963.
> > 
> > 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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > ---
> >   drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c
> > index f6cfec81ccc3..380e027ba5df 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/fw.c
> > @@ -2734,7 +2734,7 @@ void mlx4_opreq_action(struct work_struct *work)
> >   		if (err) {
> >   			mlx4_err(dev, "Failed to retrieve required operation: %d\n",
> >   				 err);
> > -			goto out;
> > +			return;
> >   		}
> >   		MLX4_GET(modifier, outbox, GET_OP_REQ_MODIFIER_OFFSET);
> >   		MLX4_GET(token, outbox, GET_OP_REQ_TOKEN_OFFSET);
> > 
> 
> Reviewed-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
> 
> The original commit febfd9d3c7f74063e8e630b15413ca91b567f963 is a bad
> commit. Not to be re-submitted.

Thanks for the review, will keep!

greg k-h