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Comment by johnathan101

3 hours ago

This is one of those regressions that's easy to miss because everything still "works." Security bugs often don't announce themselves.

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IngoBlechschmid  3 hours ago

Right! Which is why integration tests for these kinds of features are all the more important.

It was also fun to write, and enabled git-bisecting to isolate the specific kernel refactoring which introduced this bug: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/532499

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