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Date:   Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:44:27 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 142/190] Revert "rtc: hym8563: fix a missing check of
 block data read"
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 04:28:02PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 21/04/2021 15:00:17+0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This reverts commit 9a20b5e35a536d6bb4b2d4a3b14a0457e205356c.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> There is really nothing wrong in the patch, it was not completely useful
> but not wrong either.

Thanks for the review, I'll drop it.

greg k-h