If you came to me and said, 'Brendan, I've written this awesome kernel module, can you run it at Netflix?', I'd be very hesitant to do that," he said. "It introduces a lot of risk.

A patch was finalized by the module's maintainers by October 21 and released on lore.kernel.org four days later. The fix has now also been added to the mainline repository, released on October 29 ...