Comment by shakna
4 years ago
> According to the authors' clarification [1], the S&P 2021 paper did not introduce any bugs into Linux kernel. The three attempts did not even become Git commits.
Except that at least one of those three, did [0]. The author is incorrect that none of their attempts became git commits. Whatever process that they used to "check different versions of Linux and further confirmed that none of the incorrect patches was adopted" was insufficient.
> The author is incorrect that none of their attempts became git commits
That doesn't appear to be one of the three patches from the "hypocrite commits" paper, which were reportedly submitted from pseudononymous gmail addresses. There are hundreds of other patches from UMN, many from Pakki[0], and some of those did contain bugs or were invalid[1], but there's currently no hard evidence that Pakki was deliberately making bad-faith commits--just the association of his advisor being one of the authors of the "hypocrite" paper.
[0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits?author=pakki001@um...
[1] Including his most recent that was successfully applied: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YH4Aa1zFAWkITsNK@zeniv-ca.linux...