Comment by lb7000
4 years ago
From LKML
"A lot of these have already reached the stable trees. I can send you revert patches for stable by the end of today (if your scripts have not already done it)."
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2F8jcoC1ffuksrf@kroah.c...
It's not saying that those are introduced bugs; IMHO they're just proactively reverting all commits from these people.
> > > They introduce kernel bugs on purpose. Yesterday, I took a look on 4 > > > accepted patches from Aditya and 3 of them added various severity security > > > "holes".
It looks like actual security vulnerabilities were successfully added to the stable branch based on that comment.
Yes because the UMN guys have made their intent clear, and even went on to defend their actions. They should have apologised and asked for reverting their patches.
Which kind of sucks for everyone else at UMN, including people who are submitting actual security fixes...