Comment by atleta

Now one of the problems with research in general is that negative results don't get published. While in this case it probably resolved itself automatically, if they have any ethical standards then they'll write a paper about how it ended. Something like "our assumption was that it's relatively easy to deliberately sneak in bugs into the Linux kernel but it turns out we were wrong. We managed to get our whole university banned and all former patches from all contributors from our university, including from those outside of your our research team, reversed."

Also, while their assumption is interesting, there sure had to be an ethical and safe way to conduct this. Especially without allowing their bugs to slip into release.