Comment by re

> 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...