Re: [PATCH 137/190] Revert "net: lio_core: fix two NULL pointer dereferences"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:00:12PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> This reverts commit 41af8b3a097c6fd17a4867efa25966927094f57c.
> 
> 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@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_core.c | 10 ----------
>  1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_core.c
> index 2a0d64e5797c..3532730eb936 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_core.c
> @@ -1211,11 +1211,6 @@ int liquidio_change_mtu(struct net_device *netdev, int new_mtu)
>  
>  	sc = (struct octeon_soft_command *)
>  		octeon_alloc_soft_command(oct, OCTNET_CMD_SIZE, 16, 0);
> -	if (!sc) {
> -		netif_info(lio, rx_err, lio->netdev,
> -			   "Failed to allocate soft command\n");
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> -	}
>  
>  	ncmd = (union octnet_cmd *)sc->virtdptr;
>  
> @@ -1689,11 +1684,6 @@ int liquidio_set_fec(struct lio *lio, int on_off)
>  
>  	sc = octeon_alloc_soft_command(oct, OCTNET_CMD_SIZE,
>  				       sizeof(struct oct_nic_seapi_resp), 0);
> -	if (!sc) {
> -		dev_err(&oct->pci_dev->dev,
> -			"Failed to allocate soft command\n");
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> -	}
>  
>  	ncmd = sc->virtdptr;
>  	resp = sc->virtrptr;
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 

Original here looks correct, I'll drop my revert.

greg k-h