"Full disclosure" from the University of Minnesota

Posted Apr 30, 2021 21:56 UTC (Fri) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
In reply to: "Full disclosure" from the University of Minnesota by mpg
Parent article: "Full disclosure" from the University of Minnesota

I quickly learned that they tried to make sure the commits didn't get into the kernel.

Not exactly. They say they never intended for their bugs to make it into a released kernel, but they said that only after the whole thing blew up and they were in damage control mode. We don't know what their true intent was. Maybe they intended to stop the bugs from ever being released. Maybe they thought it would be good to get one into a released version and then stealthily patch it in the next version, and that would be safe because it would be fixed by the time they told the world what they had done. We simply can't know what they would have done in the hypothetical world in which one of their patches had made it into the mainline kernel. We have only their word for it, and honestly their word isn't very good with a lot of people right now.