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@xxxxxxx) 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. 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") Thanks
