On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 08:18:34AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 09:49:31AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > This reverts commit 9fcddaf2e28d779cb946d23838ba6d50f299aa80 as it was > > submitted under a fake name and we can not knowingly accept anonymous > > contributions to the repository. > > > > This commit was part of a submission "test" to the Linux kernel > > community by some "researchers" at umn.edu. As outlined at: > > https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/%7Ekjlu/papers/full-disclosure.pdf > > it was done so as an attempt to submit a known-buggy patch to see if it > > could get by our review. However, the submission turned out to actually > > be correct, and not have a bug in it as the author did not understand > > how the PCI driver model works at all, and so the submission was > > accepted. > > > > As this change is of useless consequence, there is no loss of > > functionality in reverting it. > > > > Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > drivers/crypto/cavium/nitrox/nitrox_main.c | 1 - > > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > > > Herbert, I will be taking this as part of my larger "revert buggy patch > > submissions from umn.edu" tree, so no need for you to take this in your > > tree at this point in time, I just wanted to give you a heads up as to > > what is happening here. > > Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Wonderful, thanks for the review. greg k-h
