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Re: Malicious commits to Linux kernel as part of university study


From: Mark Steward <marksteward () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 18:49:15 +0100

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 6:23 PM Ariadne Conill <ariadne () dereferenced org> wrote:
...
By mining the LKML archive, it may be possible to find the original set of
patch submissions by searching for similar keywords as the messages from
Aditya.  If somebody can do that, then we would be able to determine at
least some of the emails likely to have originated the patches.


This looks like a good guess to me, and if correct, means none of the
submissions in the paper were successful:

  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YIEqt8iAPVq8sG+t@sol.localdomain/


Mark


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