I wrote: > For our archives' sake: today I got seemingly-automated mail informing me > that this patch has been merged into the 4.19-stable, 5.4-stable, > 5.7-stable, and 5.8-stable kernel branches; but not 4.4-stable, > 4.9-stable, or 4.14-stable, because it failed to apply.
And this morning's mail brought news that the latter three branches are now patched as well. So I guess at this point it's down to platform vendors as to whether or how fast they absorb such changes. It might help for us to file platform-specific bug reports asking for the change to be merged. regards, tom lane