Yeah, all the threads full of folks bashing on ZFS because their trusty ext won’t corrupt data should be eating crow right about now, but I’m sure they’ll hop in and explain why this bug is different.
Stable process is cherry pincking thousands to tens of thousands of patches from the current master kernel branch into years old kernel branches, spraying tens of thousands of emails at original patch authors, hoping (With some limited testing on top) that the resulting frankenkernels will still work and all these patches will have satisfied dependencies applied, too.
I don't trust this process very much, and just run the latest stable branch for the latest kernel release, only. Staying with older stable release branch for too long seems too risky, unless you're some bigcorp that can afford the testing required, or you're running some highly mainstream setup that is probably covered by tests done by the stable team, and testing teams they cooperate with.
Anybody who cares that much is very likely already compiling their own kernels (I speak for myself here). It doesn't make sense for distros to do the extra work to support it.
Just expanding on this a bit: my Debian laptop has a Kconfig with modules disabled that only includes the exact set of drivers it needs. It takes ten minutes to rebuild on the laptop when I pull from git. Even if Debian did all the work to let me automatically install the latest vanilla kernel... I'd still build it myself.
You know it's not that hard to debunk this:
> You'll then be left with a kernel-6.X.? directory, containing both an unpatched 'vanilla-6.X.?' dir, and a linux-6.X.?-noarch hardlinked dir which has the Fedora patches applied. [1]
WOW fedora patches! Sounds to me like they're not shipping vanilla.
I have problem with backaptching 10s of thousands of changes to years old kernels by people who don't really understand the changes or consequences, like 5.4, 5.15, 6.1 or whatever. Not patching up 6.6 or 6.7 kernel with a few out of tree patches, where they mostly understand what they're doing and can test the limited set of changes they're applying.