> Finally, it should be noted that the "many eyes" of the upstream community failed to notice this flaw; without this blog post it would have likely persisted f

> Finally, it should be noted that the "many eyes" of the upstream community failed to notice this flaw; without this blog post it would have likely persisted for many years. Such a spicy remark, this whole post is great. (Though "many eyes" typically refers to an oft-claimed quality of open source generally with no arbitrary distinctions of upstream / downstream. grsecurity makes up some of those valued eyes for Linux!) This makes me wonder what other logic errors were introduced into the kernel because of an incorrect resolution to a warning...