alt Hacker NewsThis is one of those regressions that's easy to miss because everything still "works." Security bugs often don't announce themselves.
This is one of those regressions that's easy to miss because everything still "works." Security bugs often don't announce themselves.
Right! Which is why integration tests for these kinds of features are all the more important.
It was also fun to write, and enabled git-bisecting to isolate the specific kernel refactoring which introduced this bug: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/532499