This seems like exactly what happened to me. I do still think the researcher should have gotten approval from maintainers or the foundation before going ahead, and the way he did the research was pretty shitty.

But you also forgot the part where Greg throws a hissy fit and decides to revert every commit from umn emails, including 3+year old commits that legitimately fix security vulns.[0] Great job keeping mainline bug free with your paranoid witchhunt!

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...