And in the meantime allowing patched permissions vulnerabilities to reappear in mainline? Seems to be a bit of an overreaction no? https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
And the point of the reverts is that the kernel maintainers don't have the unlimited time that would be necessary to re-review all of these questionable patches for probable malicious underhanded C, so they are reverted for now for triage (not permanently).
For the linked patch, I would judge it possibly malicious as it leaves the identified vulnerability in the kernel for later exploit by the attackers, namely, the UMN research team.
I'm disappointed at seeing hackernews jump on this mindless mob justice like other sites would.
Having your patch reverted pending review is hardly punishment. Calling this mob justice is an insult to both mobs and justice.
edit: actually not even the develop I think https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210421130105.1226686-1-gregkh... It is just another branch? I am not familiar with the jargon