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[$] Hardening fixes lead to hard questions
Monday June 2, 2025. 06:55 PM , from LWN.net
Kees Cook's 'hardening
fixes' pull request for the 6.16 merge window looked like a straightforward exercise; it only contained four commits. So just about everybody was surprised when it resulted in Cook being temporarily blocked from his kernel.org account among fears of malicious activity. When the dust settled, though, the red alert was canceled. It turns out, surprisingly, that Git is a tool with which one can inflict substantial self-harm in a moment of inattention.
https://lwn.net/Articles/1023502/
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