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What's malicious about that patch? From reading the thread it looks like an attempt to fix a FP from some tooling.



One of the patches that the University of Minnesota was banned for from contributing to the Linux kernel. They were trying to introduce a use-after-free (Fig. 9 in their paper).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670


I just had to think about how ironic it would be if "Jia Tan" turned out to be a Post-Doc from the University of Minnesota continuing that research on hypocrite commits.




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