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=-11.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham 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 02E2FC433B4 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:49:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72426144B for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:49:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S242817AbhDUNuJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:50:09 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:57366 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S242814AbhDUNuJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:50:09 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 199C161439; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:49:34 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1619012975; bh=DfvW4thW35pyhxnz0Xb3KHpopcscliALtkpJSIRX4gA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=VBmtKNXEDbDJq2+QztTmG9r2Vg8OCWs/gZ/nFZKANBM8qtEdKgo9G//Ro21DlXotR IyXp/TqMMa9NHAvp97bjZZfR4Jq/F8M94GEPqrN1y8J+oRa7rP8GSFpGhJCiT3NVeU RUZX2Jpw9ukIK/qRqzWgHmdc90tyBKE1iWhBc2ukukB1ynT8UMy0fMsReZkvAZkqib pM80DJ6mFWv32EUkoX710SR++2fUXyhAeJowWiFEQx4gYfQlxsSBLDReakV3r52v4e mnbLdxAoaiK7rk5LYFACLm0A7nZj5Cl82yCQCXDeYX8E0SCpasBx3qn409RmTNcVfF a5VeukcK1eFZQ== Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:49:31 +0300 From: Leon Romanovsky To: "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: "Shelat, Abhi" , Greg KH , Sudip Mukherjee , Aditya Pakki , Chuck Lever , Trond Myklebust , Anna Schumaker , "David S. Miller" , Jakub Kicinski , Dave Wysochanski , "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" , netdev , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Add a check for gss_release_msg Message-ID: References: <20210407001658.2208535-1-pakki001@umn.edu> <20210420171008.GB4017@fieldses.org> <3B9A54F7-6A61-4A34-9EAC-95332709BAE7@northeastern.edu> <20210421133727.GA27929@fieldses.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210421133727.GA27929@fieldses.org> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org 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@umn.edu) 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