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The greater concern should be how many other sleeper contributors are out there. Anonymous contributions are accepted every day, and we know of cases with malic
by meinersbur 3y ago
The greater concern should be how many other sleeper contributors are out there. Anonymous contributions are accepted every day, and we know of cases with malicious intent such by "James Bond" (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200809221453.10235-1-jameslouisebond@gmail.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200809221453.10235-1-jameslou...).
I am not specifically worried about other contributions by "Jia Tan", those are being extensively looked at right now. They and other sleepers may just as well have contributed to any project with a different name and therefore "Jia Tan" does not pose more danger than any other contribution whose submitter cannot be held responsible.
- rkta 3y agoWhat's malicious about that patch? From reading the thread it looks like an attempt to fix a FP from some tooling.
- meinersbur 3y agoOne of the patches that the University of Minnesota was banned for from contributing to the Linux kernel. They were trying to introduce a use-after-free (Fig. 9 in their paper). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670
- meinersbur 3y agoI just had to think about how ironic it would be if "Jia Tan" turned out to be a Post-Doc from the University of Minnesota continuing that research on hypocrite commits.