On: “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

[rusticpenn]

At least in the university where I did my studies, each professor had their own way of thinking and you could not group them into any one basket.

[henearkr → rusticpenn]

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.

[tehwebguy → henearkr]

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".

[dash2 → tehwebguy]

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.