On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 3:27 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Anyway, I guess the interesting question for us is how long it > will take for this fix to propagate into real-world systems. > I don't have much of a clue about the Linux kernel workflow, > anybody want to venture a guess?
Me neither. It just hit Torvalds' tree[1] marked "Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.27+". I looked at the time for a couple of other PowerPC-related commits of similar complexity involving some of the same names to get from there to a Debian stable kernel package and it seemed to be under a couple of months. [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/63dee5df43a31f3844efabc58972f0a206ca4534
