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Date:   Wed, 28 Apr 2021 10:53:52 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>, Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 102/190] Revert "media: video-mux: fix null pointer
 dereferences"
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:59:37PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit aeb0d0f581e2079868e64a2e5ee346d340376eae.
> 
> 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: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu>
> Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/media/platform/video-mux.c | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/video-mux.c b/drivers/media/platform/video-mux.c
> index 133122e38515..a754e20850c2 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/video-mux.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/video-mux.c
> @@ -442,14 +442,9 @@ static int video_mux_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	vmux->active = -1;
>  	vmux->pads = devm_kcalloc(dev, num_pads, sizeof(*vmux->pads),
>  				  GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!vmux->pads)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> -
>  	vmux->format_mbus = devm_kcalloc(dev, num_pads,
>  					 sizeof(*vmux->format_mbus),
>  					 GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!vmux->format_mbus)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < num_pads; i++) {
>  		vmux->pads[i].flags = (i < num_pads - 1) ? MEDIA_PAD_FL_SINK
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 

This looks correct, dropping from revert list.

greg k-h