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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by henearkr on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @07:20AM (#26888073)
Fair point.

I'll just leave my comment as it is. The university administration still bears responsibility in the fact that they waived the IRB.

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by tehwebguy on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:04AM (#26888480)
From the link, not sure if accurate:

> Those commits are part of the following research:

> https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/pap...

> They introduce kernel bugs on purpose. Yesterday, I took a look on 4 accepted patches from Aditya and 3 of them added various severity security "holes".

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by dash2 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:25AM (#26888689)
Interestingly, that paper states that they introduced 3 patches with bugs, but after acceptance, they immediately notified the maintainers and replaced the patches with correct, bug-free ones. So they claim the bugs never hit any git tree. They also state that their research had passed the university IRB. I don't know if that research relates to what they are doing now, though.
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