Comment by bluenose69

The ban seems rational, when viewed in the context of kernel development.

The benefit is twofold: (a) it's simpler to block a whole university than it is to figure out who the individuals are and (b) this sends a message that there is some responsibility at the institutional level.

The risk is that someone writing from that university address might have something that would be useful to the software.

Getting patches and pull-requests accepted is not a guaranteed. And it's asking a lot of kernel developers that they check not just bad code but also for badly-intended code.

I had a look at the research paper (https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/pap...) and it saddens me to see such a thing coming out of a university. It's like a medical researcher introducing a disease to see whether it spreads quickly.