“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
The professor gets exactly what they want here, no?<p>&quot;We experimented on the linux kernel team to see what would happen. Our non-double-blind test of 1 FOSS maintenance group has produced the following result: We get banned and our entire university gets dragged through the muck 100% of the time&quot;.<p>That&#x27;ll be a fun paper to write, no doubt.<p>Additional context:<p>* One of the committers of these faulty patches, Aditya Pakki, writes a reply taking offense at the &#x27;slander&#x27; and indicating that the commit was in good faith[1].<p>Greg KH then immediately calls bullshit on this, and then proceeds to ban the entire university from making commits [2].<p>The thread then gets down to business and starts coordinating revert patches for everything committed by University of Minnesota email addresses.<p>As was noted, this obviously has a bunch of collateral damage, but such drastic measures seem like a balanced response, considering that this university decided to _experiment_ on the kernel team and then lie about it when confronted (presumably, that lie is simply continuing their experiment of &#x27;what would someone intentionally trying to add malicious code to the kernel do&#x27;)?<p>* Abhi Shelat also chimes in with links to UMN&#x27;s Institutional Review Board along with documentation on the UMN policies for ethical review. [3]<p>[1]: Message has since been deleted, so I&#x27;m going by the content of it as quoted in Greg KH&#x27;s followup, see footnote 2<p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lore.kernel.org&#x2F;linux-nfs&#x2F;YH/fM/TsbmcZzwnX@kroah.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lore.kernel.org&#x2F;linux-nfs&#x2F;YH/fM/TsbmcZzwnX@kroah...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lore.kernel.org&#x2F;linux-nfs&#x2F;3B9A54F7-6A61-4A34-9EAC-95332709BAE7@northeastern.edu&#x2F;#t" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lore.kernel.org&#x2F;linux-nfs&#x2F;3B9A54F7-6A61-4A34-9EAC-95...</a>