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Linux Kernel Introducing New Taint Due To Fuzzing Bots Yielding Impractical Bug Reports


The Linux kernel is having to introduce a new taint flag 'TAINT_FORCED_BIND' to deal with fuzzing bots like Syzbot abusing Linux's bind/unbind sysfs functionality and generating bug reports for impractical and not at all relevant hardware/driver combinations.

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