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Date:   Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:08:21 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Add a check for gss_release_msg
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 07:43:03AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 08:10:25AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 01:10:08PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 09:15:23AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > If you look at the code, this is impossible to have happen.
> > > > 
> > > > Please stop submitting known-invalid patches.  Your professor is playing
> > > > around with the review process in order to achieve a paper in some
> > > > strange and bizarre way.
> > > > 
> > > > This is not ok, it is wasting our time, and we will have to report this,
> > > > AGAIN, to your university...
> > > 
> > > What's the story here?
> > 
> > Those commits are part of the following research:
> > https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/papers/OpenSourceInsecurity.pdf
> > 
> > They introduce kernel bugs on purpose. Yesterday, I took a look on 4
> > accepted patches from Aditya and 3 of them added various severity security
> > "holes".
> 
> All contributions by this group of people need to be reverted, if they
> have not been done so already, as what they are doing is intentional
> malicious behavior and is not acceptable and totally unethical.  I'll
> look at it after lunch unless someone else wants to do it...

It looks like the best possible scenario.
I asked to revert the bad patch, but didn't get any response yet.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YH6aMsbqruMZiWFe@unreal/

> 
> greg k-h