Hard to find a good spot for this, but: Thanks to anyone involved! From grasping the magnitude of this vulnerability to coordinating it with all major OS vendors, including Open Source ones that do all of their stuff more or less „in the open“, it was almost a miracle that the flaw was leaked „only“ a few days before the embargo - and we‘ll all have patches to protect our infrastructure just in time.

Interestingly, it also put the LKML developers into an ethical grey zone, as they had to deceive the public the patch was actually fixing something else (they did a good and right thing there IMHO).

Despite all the slight problems along the way, kudos to any of the White Hats dealing with this mess over the last months and handling it super graceful!