Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
Posted Nov 20, 2018 14:17 UTC (Tue) by hailfinger (subscriber, #76962)In reply to: Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline by roc
Parent article: Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
Quite a few kernel bugs seemed to be regular bugs with no security implications until someone clever took a look again a few years after they had been fixed and found out that those bugs were exploitable.
The unwillingness to differentiate between regular bugs and security bugs and simply fixing all of them is a result of the above problem.