When the Linux maintainers found out about this, they quickly banned the entire university from Linux development, before the Linux Foundationsent the university a list of demands, to which it would seem the university quickly acceded, pulling its paper from an IEEE conference to which it was accepted and agreeing to provide “all information necessary to identify all proposals of known-vulnerable code from any U of MN experiment.”
Linux kernel developers do not like being experimented on, we have enough real work to do: https://t.co/vWvtxjt7A5
Now, you might find yourself thinking, as do I, that, uninformed of the ethical requirements of security research, and not perfectly in the know of how these sorts of things work, that it illuminates something nonetheless. Various commenters in numerous threads point out that the ability to submit a bug of this sort was already a known threat and that proving it could be done achieved little.