That's a false claim, though. There's evidence that at least one of the students involved did not do anything to alert kernel maintainers or prevent their code

That's a false claim, though. There's evidence that at least one of the students involved did not do anything to alert kernel maintainers or prevent their code from reaching stable. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/log/?h=v5.11.15&qt=author&q=pakki001%40umn.edu https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...