From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B43DEC433B4 for ; Thu, 6 May 2021 08:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3211261157 for ; Thu, 6 May 2021 08:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233728AbhEFI1R (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2021 04:27:17 -0400 Received: from jabberwock.ucw.cz ([46.255.230.98]:59384 "EHLO jabberwock.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231929AbhEFI1P (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 May 2021 04:27:15 -0400 Received: by jabberwock.ucw.cz (Postfix, from userid 1017) id E34671C0B87; Thu, 6 May 2021 10:26:16 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 10:26:16 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Kees Cook Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kangjie Lu , tech-board@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: Report on University of Minnesota Breach-of-Trust Incident Message-ID: <20210506082616.GA20224@duo.ucw.cz> References: <202105051005.49BFABCE@keescook> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FCuugMFkClbJLl1L" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <202105051005.49BFABCE@keescook> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! > Report on University of Minnesota Breach-of-Trust Incident >=20 > or >=20 > "An emergency re-review of kernel commits authored by members of the > University of Minnesota, due to the Hypocrite Commits research paper." >=20 > May 5, 2021 Thanks for doing this. I believe short summary is that there was some deception from UMN researches in 2020: > 2020 August: > - "Hypocrite Commits" patches from UMN researchers sent to kernel devel= opers > under false identities: > - Aug 4 13:36-0500 > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200804183650.4024-1-jameslouisebond@gmail= =2Ecom > - Aug 9 17:14-0500 > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200809221453.10235-1-jameslouisebond@gmai= l.com > - Aug 20 22:12-0500 > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200821031209.21279-1-acostag.ubuntu@gmail= =2Ecom > - Aug 20 22:44-0500 > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200821034458.22472-1-acostag.ubuntu@gmail= =2Ecom > - Aug 21 02:05-0500 > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200821070537.30317-1-jameslouisebond@gmai= l.com But there was no deception from UMN in 2021. Yet, we were spreading... let's say inaccurate information as late as this: > 2021 April 29: > - Greg posts an update on the re-review along with some more reverts. > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210429130811.3353369-1-gregkh@linuxfounda= tion.org # Commits from @umn.edu addresses have been found to be submitted in "bad # faith" to try to test the kernel community's ability to review "known # malicious" changes. UMN apologized. Our reaction to their apology was: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YIV+pLR0nt94q0xQ@kroah.com/#t Do we owe them apology, too? Best regards, Pavel --=20 http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABECAB0WIQRPfPO7r0eAhk010v0w5/Bqldv68gUCYJOoKAAKCRAw5/Bqldv6 8nBJAKCXH41qp7GFDRZZKr5FKX6sgAgnWgCfQVKch1WxtLNI56BmgVMbctBSb20= =zYAO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L--