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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by db48x on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @06:58PM (#26896454)
That paper came out a year ago, and they got a lot of negative feedback about it, as you might expect. Now they appear to be doing it again. It’s a different PHD student with the same advisor as last time.

This time two reviewers noticed that the patch was useless, and then Greg stepped in (three weeks later) saying that this was a repetition of the same bad behavior from the first study. This got a response from the author of the patch, who said that this and other statements were “wild accusations that are bordering on slander”.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%2FTsbmcZzwnX@kroah...

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by rualca on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @07:46PM (#26896832)
> Now they appear to be doing it again. It’s a different PHD student with the same advisor as last time.

I'd hate to be the PhD student that wastes away half a dozen years of his/her life writing a document on how to sneak buggy code through a code review.

More than being pointless and boring, it's a total CV black hole. It's the worst of both worlds: zero professional experience to show for, and zero academic portfolio to show for.

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Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” by db48x on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:44PM (#26897290)
True. They would be better off competing in the Underhanded C Contest (http://www.underhanded-c.org/).
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