Re: [PATCH 047/190] Revert "rxrpc: Fix a memory leak in rxkad_verify_response()"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 05:30:23PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > This reverts commit f45d01f4f30b53c3a0a1c6c1c154acb7ff74ab9f.
> > 
> > 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@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@xxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This is actually a good patch, so please don't revert it.

Now dropped from my series, thanks!

greg k-h