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From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date:   Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:59:58 -0800
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:50 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Yeah, if it hasn't shown any real bugs so far, that just strengthens
> the "it needs much fewer false positives to be useful".
>

It definitely has shown real bugs, some of them being still addressed
(not yet fixed)