An update on the UMN affair
An update on the UMN affair
[Front] Posted Apr 29, 2021 14:39 UTC (Thu) by corbet
On April 20, the world became aware of a research program conducted out of the University of Minnesota (UMN) that involved submitting intentionally buggy patches for inclusion into the Linux kernel. Since then, a paper resulting from this work has been withdrawn, various letters have gone back and forth, and numerous patches from UMN have been audited. It's clearly time for an update on the situation.