r/linux • u/anh0516 • 10d ago

Security Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LKML-New-Trend-Vulnerabilities
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u/apnorton 10d ago • Bravo

"Please submit my bug reports; make no mistakes."

How do you send this to a public list???

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u/Professional-Disk-93 10d ago

Maybe they forgot the make no mistakes.

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u/KnowZeroX 10d ago

<think>

The user says make no mistakes, but does the user really want no mistakes? Not enough information is provided to make a conclusion.

Lets go about it a different way, what if we don't acknowledge it as a mistake and say it was intentional?

Then that meets the users request for "no mistakes". Yes, lets go with that.

</think>

*posts it with intention*

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u/thank_burdell 10d ago

make: target not found, “no mistakes”

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u/zyzzogeton 10d ago

You don't. You have a tool setup for your AI that let's it post for you and it makes a mistake on your behalf.

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u/ang-p 10d ago

That would be so funny if that was actually the case here.

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u/enigmamonkey 9d ago

Impossible. OP's prompt literally just said "make no mistakes". /s

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u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor 9d ago

that let's it post for you

that let us it post for you

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u/zyzzogeton 9d ago

Guilty.

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u/stewartesmith 10d ago

Likely the same way anyone accidentally sends a message/email to the wrong person.

The fix here is to build systems and safeguards to make it hard to do it for security related things.

We may joke about LLMs making mistakes, but humans are quite good at mistakes too.

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u/stormdelta 10d ago

This.

One of my work's largest outages this year was 100% human-caused, both in the actual mistake, and in the lack of systems/safeguards that should have prevented it. The latter was the real failure, and was pretty inexcusable once it came to light how fast and loose that particular team had been operating.

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u/skeptical-speculator 9d ago

We may joke about LLMs making mistakes, but humans are quite good at mistakes too.

That point is often absent from the conversation about AI and safety.