That isn't true (flaws now in use on production systems). If you read their
paper
<https://github.com/QiushiWu/QiushiWu.github.io/blob/main/papers/OpenSourceInsecurity.pdf>,
once the maintainer said "ok, looks good" they told the maintainer of the
issue with the code and not to use it. (Section VI A "Ethical
Considerations").

Now that may be going through ALL of the code submissions from UMN and
ripping it all out and replacing it, but in *this* case security issues
were not introduced into the kernel.




On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 9:07 AM John F. Eldredge <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Two researchers at the University of Minnesota have admitted they
> deliberately introduced security flaws into the Linux kernel, in order to
> determine how effective the review process is. As a result, all code
> changes originating from the university have been rolled back and are being
> re-reviewed, and no one using a University of Minnesota email address will
> be allowed to submit kernel changes. Apparently the flaws the researchers
> introduced are now in use on production systems worldwide.
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