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Comment by lou1306

4 years ago

But still, this kind of research puts undue pressure on the kernel maintainers who have to review patches that were not submitted in good faith (where "good faith" = the author of the patch were trying to improve the kernel)

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kevinventullo  4 years ago

I think that was kind of the point of the research: submitting broken patches to the kernel represents a feasible attack surface which is difficult to mitigate, precisely because kernel maintainers already have such a hard job.

  • varjag  4 years ago

    So what's the null hypothesis here? Human maintainers are infallible? Why this even need to be researched?