Comment by burnished

You can read the (relatively short) email chains for yourself, but to try and answer your question, as I understood it the problem wasn't entirely the problems submitted in the paper it was followup bad patches and ridiculous defense. Essentially they sent patches that were purportedly the result of static analysis but did nothing, broke social convention by failing to signal that the patch was the result of a tool, and it was deemed indistinguishable from more attempts to send bad code and perform tests on the linux maintainers.