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Date:   Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:41:16 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     "Deucher, Alexander" <Alexander.Deucher@amd.com>
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        Aditya Pakki <pakki001@umn.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 023/190] Revert "drm/radeon: fix multiple reference count
 leak"
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 04:07:14PM +0000, Deucher, Alexander wrote:
> [AMD Public Use]
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 8:58 AM
> > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>; Aditya Pakki
> > <pakki001@umn.edu>; Deucher, Alexander
> > <Alexander.Deucher@amd.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH 023/190] Revert "drm/radeon: fix multiple reference count
> > leak"
> > 
> > This reverts commit 6f2e8acdb48ed166b65d47837c31b177460491ec.
> > 
> > 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: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> AFAICT, this patch is correct or at least does no harm.  Handling of pm_runtime_get_sync() errors in the kernel seems to be inconsistent at best.

Thanks for the review, now dropped.

greg k-h