On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 3:27 PM Tom Lane <tgl@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:
stable@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