Re: [PATCH 000/190] Revertion of all of the umn.edu commits

[Jiri Kosina]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, Kangjie Lu wrote:

> > Therefore I'd like to ask Kangjie Lu (who is CCed here) to consider
> > revising his statement in the attempted public clarification:
> >
> >         "The experiment did not introduce any bug or bug-introducing
> > commit into
> >          OSS."
> >
> > at [1] as it's clearly not true. Missing mutex unlock clearky is a bug
> > introduced by this experiment.
> >
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am so sorry for the concerns. I fully understand why the community is
> angry. Please allow me to have a very quick response, as Jiri requested. We
> will provide a detailed explanation later.

Thanks.

> These are two different projects. The one published at IEEE S&P 2021 has
> completely finished in November 2020. 

What about 8a94644b440 then? It's from May 2020, it has been committed to 
the tree, and it introduces a NULL pointer dereference on 
kobject_init_and_add() failure.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs