It took 'over 80 different developers' to review and fix 'mess' made by students who sneaked bad code into Linux
Linux maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman has sent in a pull request for Linux 5.13 aimed at dealing with grief caused by the antics of some students at the University of Minnesota.
The majority here is the fallout of the umn.edu re-review of all prior submissions. That resulted in a bunch of reverts along with the "correct" changes made, such that there is no regression of any of the potential fixes that were made by those individuals. I would like to thank the over 80 different developers who helped with the review and fixes for this mess.
That's right. It took more than 80 developers to deal with the fallout from the work of the University of Minnesota compsci students. The ill-judged attempt to subvert the Linux kernel last month resulted in a blanket ban for contributions from anyone with a University of Minnesota email address and a bulk reversion of the commits.
Phoronix noted that out of the 150 or so patches submitted by umn.edu developers over the years, only 37 ended up being reverted in this pull request. Most were either unneeded or "incorrect."
