Re: Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change

On 1/16/25 7:27 AM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:04:32 +0000, rbowman wrote:
 

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/microsoft_linux_change_pulled/
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 This has got to be one the shittiest articles that I have ever read.
 It has ZERO information.
 After reading this I have no idea what the fuck is going on.
 It concerns, I think, ROX or "read only executable pages" but how
or what effect they have is never explained.
 The article is pure garbage.
 

Last sentence:
    "Petkov will not be the only one wondering how the change made it in without a review by the Linux x86/x86_64 maintainers."
Moles among Linux developers, probably?
In Iran of Shah's time, when an armed anti-government political group formed (many of them sprang up in the last ten years of that regime), all SAVAK needed to do to destroy such groups was to create a similar one in its proximity.
Then, gradually, this bogus group after some harmless scores, made attempts to connect with the real one. After a few months or at most a year or two, some connections would get established. Then ideas of "joining forces to get stronger" would gradually get brought up until at last the two groups joined. Then the silent slaughter would take place.
This was also one of the Capone style methods in the 1920s to get rid of their competitors.
Mr. Windows, it seems, is practicing it too.