"In the past several years, we devote most of our time to improving the Linux kernel, and we have found and fixed more than one thousand kernel bugs"
But someone upthread posted that this group has a total of about 280 commits in the kernel tree. That doesn't seem like anywhere near enough to fix more than a thousand bugs.
Also, the clarification then says:
"the extensive bug finding and fixing experience also allowed us to observe issues with the patching process and motivated us to improve it"
And the way you do that is to tell the Linux kernel maintainers about the issues you observed and discuss with them ways to fix them. But of course that's not at all what this group did. So no, I don't agree that this research was done "properly". It shouldn't have been done at all the way it was done.
"In the past several years, we devote most of our time to improving the Linux kernel, and we have found and fixed more than one thousand kernel bugs"
But someone upthread posted that this group has a total of about 280 commits in the kernel tree. That doesn't seem like anywhere near enough to fix more than a thousand bugs.
Also, the clarification then says:
"the extensive bug finding and fixing experience also allowed us to observe issues with the patching process and motivated us to improve it"
And the way you do that is to tell the Linux kernel maintainers about the issues you observed and discuss with them ways to fix them. But of course that's not at all what this group did. So no, I don't agree that this research was done "properly". It shouldn't have been done at all the way it was done.
[1] https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc....