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SubjectRe: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Add a check for gss_release_msg
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 04:49:31PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 09:37:27AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 11:58:08AM +0000, Shelat, Abhi wrote:
> > > Academic research should NOT waste the time of a community.
> > >
> > > If you believe this behavior deserves an escalation, you can contact
> > > the Institutional Review Board (irb@umn.edu) at UMN to investigate
> > > whether this behavior was harmful; in particular, whether the research
> > > activity had an appropriate IRB review, and what safeguards prevent
> > > repeats in other communities.
> >
> > For what it's worth, they do address security, IRB, and maintainer-time
> > questions in "Ethical Considerations", starting on p. 8:
> >
> > https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/papers/OpenSourceInsecurity.pdf
> >
> > (Summary: in that experiment, they claim actual fixes were sent before
> > the original (incorrect) patches had a chance to be committed; that
> > their IRB reviewed the plan and determined it was not human research;
> > and that patches were all small and (after correction) fixed real (if
> > minor) bugs.)
> >
> > This effort doesn't appear to be following similar protocols, if Leon
> > Romanvosky and Aditya Pakki are correct that security holes have already
> > reached stable.
>
> Aditya Pakki is the one who is sending those patches.

Argh, sorry, I I meant Sudip Mukherjee, who reported their reaching
stable. Apologies.

> If you want to see another accepted patch that is already part of
> stable@, you are invited to take a look on this patch that has "built-in bug":
> 8e949363f017 ("net: mlx5: Add a missing check on idr_find, free buf")

Interesting, thanks.

--b.

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