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That's always possible, but why would the bug report linked from the code change be private then?

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=139744

No, I doubt that something closed in early 2010 has much to do with a new patch that has a rationale disabled from public viewing which implies it's a security emergency.

You are correct, I misread the code commit. The link to the 2010 bug was removed from the code, not added to it.

I think 'jgrahamc is right.