This reverts commit e406f12dde1a8375d77ea02d91f313fb1a9c6aec.
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: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16+ Cc: Guoqing Jiang gqjiang@suse.com Cc: Aditya Pakki pakki001@umn.edu Cc: Song Liu songliubraving@fb.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/md/raid10.c | 2 -- drivers/md/raid5.c | 2 -- 2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c index a9ae7d113492..4fec1cdd4207 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid10.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c @@ -3896,8 +3896,6 @@ static int raid10_run(struct mddev *mddev) set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery); mddev->sync_thread = md_register_thread(md_do_sync, mddev, "reshape"); - if (!mddev->sync_thread) - goto out_free_conf; }
return 0; diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c index 5d57a5bd171f..9b2bd50beee7 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c @@ -7677,8 +7677,6 @@ static int raid5_run(struct mddev *mddev) set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery); mddev->sync_thread = md_register_thread(md_do_sync, mddev, "reshape"); - if (!mddev->sync_thread) - goto abort; }
/* Ok, everything is just fine now */