On 4/21/2021 2:58 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

This reverts commit 6e6c25283dff866308c87b49434c7dbad4774cc0.

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@umn.edu Cc: 3.10+ stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+ Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com

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drivers/acpi/sysfs.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c index 8baf7644a0d0..842bf63b91e9 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c @@ -986,10 +986,8 @@ void acpi_sysfs_add_hotplug_profile(struct acpi_hotplug_profile *hotplug, error = kobject_init_and_add(&hotplug->kobj, &acpi_hotplug_profile_ktype, hotplug_kobj, "%s", name);

• if (error) {

• kobject_put(&hotplug->kobj);
  

• if (error) goto err_out;

• }

kobject_uevent(&hotplug->kobj, KOBJ_ADD); return;