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=-12.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable 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 E1B33C433B4 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:56:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9EBD6144B for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:56:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S243076AbhDUN5U (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:57:20 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:50192 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S242991AbhDUN5L (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:57:11 -0400 Received: from fieldses.org (fieldses.org [IPv6:2600:3c00:e000:2f7::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EA832C06138A; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 06:56:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fieldses.org (Postfix, from userid 2815) id 4157A727A; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:56:37 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 fieldses.org 4157A727A DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fieldses.org; s=default; t=1619013397; bh=pFaksgY5nGLdb69g+ixg9Bb3UoF3khtrHn1VSbgP31I=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=bN7X3LZtf5iiYZn/6WMbdzo8NWHQU7ppTf114jUaabwFtVtE4XWfkbiE3cKdnJQuI FsF0oK32SDnsekt4EAdRooSwp/24XIizy8xX04QvYwsxBbDe9CibFFDuPSGi1MVjnu SZxHazMNIyVXZ1Hhi5bDV1W0n/IADBQkwncN8dZ4= Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:56:37 -0400 From: "J. Bruce Fields" To: Leon Romanovsky 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: <20210421135637.GB27929@fieldses.org> 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: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 04:49:31PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > 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. Argh, sorry, I I meant Sudip Mukherjee, who reported their reaching stable. Apologies. > 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") Interesting, thanks. --b.