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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-24 21:24:06)
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...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Taint-Forced-Bind
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