[vdupras]

If Linus is correct in his assumption that malicious work has to be involved to produce this tree (rather than being the result of merges and rebases gone wrong), it would indicate that Kees' development machines are compromised.

[Maxious]

Later in the thread it seems like https://github.com/mricon/b4 was involved. Maybe just a bug this time but exposes it as a weak link in the whole kernel contributor web of trust