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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:18:39 -0400
From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@...itzky.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Malicious commits to Linux kernel as part of
 university study

On Thu, 2021-04-22 at 18:49 +0100, Mark Steward wrote:
> 
> 
> This looks like a good guess to me, and if correct, means none of the
> submissions in the paper were successful:
> 
>   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YIEqt8iAPVq8sG+t@sol.localdomain/
> 

If you believe them, the researchers never intended to allow the bad
commits into the kernel:

  https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc.pdf

On the one hand, they're wasting everyone's time to report a
vulnerability that everyone knows exists already and finding
conclusions that are all obvious and/or useless. But on the other hand,
they don't sound quite as daft as the headlines make them seem. Overly
naive for sure.


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