Comment by xucheng

IEEE S&P is actually one of the top conferences in the field of computer security. It does mention some guidance on ethical consideration.

> If a paper raises significant ethical and/or legal concerns, it might be rejected based on these concerns.

https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2021/cfpapers.html

So if the kernel maintainers report the issue to the S&P PC, the paper could potentially be rejected.