netdev - Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Add a check for gss_release

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Date:   Wed, 21 Apr 2021 08:10:25 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>,
        Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@...hat.com>,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Add a check for gss_release_msg

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".

Thanks

> 
> --b.