Comment by rurban

Because in the paper is stated that they used partially fantasy names. So far they've found only 4 names of real @umn.edu people from Kangjie Lu's lab, which could easily be blocked, the most coming from two of his students, Aditya Pakki, Qiushi Wu, plus his colleague Wenwen Wang. The Wenwen Wang fixes look like actual fixes though, not malicious. Some of Lu's earlier patches also look good.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210421130105.1226686-8-gregkh... for the full list