Hi Greg,
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 3:06 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This reverts commit d39083234c60519724c6ed59509a2129fd2aed41.
>
> 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: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Upon a second look, I still see nothing wrong with the original commit.
However, as I'm no v4l expert, I'd like to defer to the experts for final
judgement.
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/rcar_drif.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/rcar_drif.c
> @@ -915,7 +915,6 @@ static int rcar_drif_g_fmt_sdr_cap(struct file *file, void *priv,
> {
> struct rcar_drif_sdr *sdr = video_drvdata(file);
>
> - memset(f->fmt.sdr.reserved, 0, sizeof(f->fmt.sdr.reserved));
> f->fmt.sdr.pixelformat = sdr->fmt->pixelformat;
> f->fmt.sdr.buffersize = sdr->fmt->buffersize;
>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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