Comment by rincebrain

4 years ago

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

Here's the research article linked there, for those interested: https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/pap...

  • Please correct me if I'm wrong. So he (PhD student) was introducing bad code as part of research? And publishes a paper to show how he successfully introduced bad code.

    • It seems that Aditya Pakki was the one introducing shady code to the kernel and was caught. He is listed as an author on several other very similar papers (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=O9WEZuoAAAAJ&hl=en) with authors Wu and Lu about automatically detecting "missing-check bugs" and other security issues which they purport to want to fix but this research paper explicitly discusses submitting "fixes" that have latent security bugs in them.