> > > 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".

It looks like actual security vulnerabilities were successfully added to the stable branch based on that comment.

Yes because the UMN guys have made their intent clear, and even went on to defend their actions. They should have apologised and asked for reverting their patches.

Which kind of sucks for everyone else at UMN, including people who are submitting actual security fixes...