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From: "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@kernel.org>,
	"Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] KEYS: encrypted: Add check for strsep
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 19:30:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CYS7WMFLXNE1.35OBTKTONKNX3@suppilovahvero> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CYS7QMYS8XAJ.2QPI3MS5KXK8E@suppilovahvero>

On Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 7:22 PM EET, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 11:10 PM EET, Verma, Vishal L wrote:
> > On Wed, 2024-01-24 at 15:40 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2024-01-24 at 20:10 +0000, Verma, Vishal L wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > Ah, thanks for confirming! Would you like me to send a revert patch or
> > > > will you do it?
> > > 
> > > Revert "KEYS: encrypted: Add check for strsep"
> > >     
> > > This reverts commit b4af096b5df5dd131ab796c79cedc7069d8f4882.
> > >     
> > > New encrypted keys are created either from kernel-generated random
> > > numbers or user-provided decrypted data.  Revert the change requiring
> > > user-provided decrypted data.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Can I add your Reported-by?
> >
> > Yes that works, Thank you.
>
> This went totally wrong IMHO.
>
> Priority should be to locate and fix the bug not revert useful stuff
> when a bug is found that has limited scope.

By guidelines here the commit is also a bug fix and reverting
such commit means seeding a bug to the mainline. Also the klog
message alone is a bug fix here. So also by book it really has
to come back as it was already commit because we cannot
knowingly mount bugs to the mainline, right?

BR, Jarkko

  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-30 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-08  7:36 [PATCH] KEYS: encrypted: Add check for strsep Chen Ni
2024-01-24 18:21 ` Verma, Vishal L
2024-01-24 19:15   ` Mimi Zohar
2024-01-24 20:10     ` Verma, Vishal L
2024-01-24 20:40       ` Mimi Zohar
2024-01-24 21:10         ` Verma, Vishal L
2024-01-30 17:22           ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2024-01-30 17:30             ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
2024-01-30 18:25               ` Dan Williams
2024-02-01 21:43                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2024-02-02  0:05                   ` Mimi Zohar
2024-02-12  5:11                     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2024-01-30 17:19   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2024-01-30 17:20     ` Jarkko Sakkinen

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