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University of Minnesota Linux code security issues; banned and to be removed
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Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: magic on April 26, 2021, 07:35:53 am ---https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/20210423214850.GI10457@fieldses.org/

Just as expected :-DD :popcorn:

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Can you explain what is amusing for those of us playing along at home?
ataradov:
There may be some legit patches. Or may be not. Once the trust is broken, it is safer to assume the whole organization to be malicious.

It is reasonable to remove all code from them until it is reviewed.  And if all they did was post static code analysis patches, then not a whole lot of value would be lost of they are removed forever. Static code checker patches are always the lowest grade.

There are a ton of people running static code checkers on the kernel, there is nothing particularly interesting about that work.
magic:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on April 26, 2021, 07:42:47 am ---
--- Quote from: magic on April 26, 2021, 07:35:53 am ---https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/20210423214850.GI10457@fieldses.org/

Just as expected :-DD :popcorn:

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Can you explain what is amusing for those of us playing along at home?

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The guy wrote some tools looking for bugs in Linux and submitted fixes for what he found, wrote a paper about it, all under his real name.
Some fixes were dumb and got rejected, some were subtly wrong but the devs took them anyway.
Some other guy went "what the heck, let's look what happens if we send them rubbish deliberately from throwaway gmail accounts".
Now the kernel tries to put all blame on Project Rubbish and pretends that everything that they accepted that wasn't correct must have originated from there :P
SilverSolder:

Never waste a good crisis!
bd139:

--- Quote from: bd139 on April 23, 2021, 11:21:46 pm ---Loudest ego wins in 2021 and that appears to be the kernel team.

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I retract the latter part of my previous comment  :-DD

What I am learning from this is that we're in the hands of asshats.
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