Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Mar 2024 19:56:02 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [tech-board] [PATCH 00/11] xz: Updates to license, filters, and compression options |
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On Fri, 29 Mar 2024 14:51:41 -0600 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
> > Andrew (and anyone else), please do not take this code right now. > > > > Until the backdooring of upstream xz[1] is fully understood, we should not > > accept any code from Jia Tan, Lasse Collin, or any other folks associated > > with tukaani.org. It appears the domain, or at least credentials > > associated with Jia Tan, have been used to create an obfuscated ssh > > server backdoor via the xz upstream releases since at least 5.6.0. > > Without extensive analysis, we should not take any associated code. > > It may be worth doing some retrospective analysis of past contributions > > as well... > > > > Lasse, are you able to comment about what is going on here? > > FWIW, it looks like this series has been in linux-next for a few days. > Maybe it needs to come out, for now at least?
Yes, I have removed that series.
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