“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by rocqua on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @11:02AM (#26890568)

> In reality, several of their bad commits made it into the stable branch.

Is it known whether these commits were indeed bad? It is certainly worth removing them just in case, but is there any confirmation?

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by Koliakis on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:42PM (#26891996)

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by nightpool on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:50PM (#26892120)

This is a completely separate incident, a year apart from the paper under discussion.

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by Koliakis on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @01:55PM (#26893155)

Then just go through the linked mailing list in the OP. It's in the quoted parts. Honestly, the people around here.

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by devmor on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @02:21PM (#26893489)

I don't think we know if they contain bugs, but from what I gathered reading the mailing list, we do know that they added nothing of value.

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