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No bugs were introduced and they didn't intend to introduce any bugs. infact, they have resolved over 1000+ bugs in the linux kernel. >> https://www-users.cs.u

No bugs were introduced and they didn't intend to introduce any bugs. infact, they have resolved over 1000+ bugs in the linux kernel. >> https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc.pdf https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc.... "We did not introduce or intend to introduce any bug or vulnerability in the Linux kernel. All the bug-introducing patches stayed only in the email exchanges, without being adopted or merged into any Linux branch, which was explicitly confirmed by maintainers. Therefore, the bug-introducing patches in the email did not even become a Git commit in any Linux branch. None of the Linux users would be affected. The following shows the specific procedure of the experiment"

rincebrain 6y ago
And now all their patches are getting reverted because nobody trusts them to have been made in good faith, so their list of resolved bugs goes to 0.
- Avamander 6y ago
  It's indeed unfortunate what a few bruised egos will result in.
  - rincebrain 6y ago
    I don't think it's necessarily a bruised ego here - I think what upset him is that the paper was published a few months ago and yet, based on this patch, the author seems to still be attempting to submit deeply flawed patches to LKML, and complaining when people don't trust them to be innocent mistakes for some reason.
- InsomniacL 6y ago
  so instead of fixing the issue they found of being able to introduce backdoors in to their code, they are going to rollback thousand + of other bug fixes. That's more of a story than what the researchers have done...
  - rincebrain 6y ago
    What would you do, if you had a group of patch authors who you didn't trust the contributions of anymore, other than setting aside the time for someone trusted to audit all 390 commits they've had since 2014?
  - rincebrain 6y ago
    Yup, he's really ripping them all out. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210421130105.1226686-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210421130105.1226686-1-gregkh...

rincebrain 6y ago

And now all their patches are getting reverted because nobody trusts them to have been made in good faith, so their list of resolved bugs goes to 0.

Avamander 6y ago
It's indeed unfortunate what a few bruised egos will result in.
- rincebrain 6y ago
  I don't think it's necessarily a bruised ego here - I think what upset him is that the paper was published a few months ago and yet, based on this patch, the author seems to still be attempting to submit deeply flawed patches to LKML, and complaining when people don't trust them to be innocent mistakes for some reason.
InsomniacL 6y ago
so instead of fixing the issue they found of being able to introduce backdoors in to their code, they are going to rollback thousand + of other bug fixes. That's more of a story than what the researchers have done...
- rincebrain 6y ago
  What would you do, if you had a group of patch authors who you didn't trust the contributions of anymore, other than setting aside the time for someone trusted to audit all 390 commits they've had since 2014?
- rincebrain 6y ago
  Yup, he's really ripping them all out. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210421130105.1226686-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210421130105.1226686-1-gregkh...