5.ShakingHands

The Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board reports on what was found in its complete examination of University of Minnesota patches, putting out the fire between the Linux kernel community and the University of Minnesota (UMN).

The fire between the Linux kernel community and the University of Minnesota (UMN) is being put out. Thanks to an ill-thought-out Linux security project, two UMN graduate students tried to insert deliberately buggy patches into Linux. Greg Kroah-Hartman, the well-respected Linux kernel maintainer for the Linux stable branch, responded by banning not only them but any UMN-connected developers from contributing to the Linux kernel. Now, UMN has addressed the Linux kernel developer's community's concerns. And, in a message to the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) , the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) and volunteer senior Linux kernel maintainers and developers have reported on what they found  when they closely and thoroughly examined patches from UMN academics.

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