To me the bigger problem is that the linux kernel does not seem to have a thorough test suite. Such things should be easily testable and verifiable. Apparently since 2024 nobody had that; humans are only so good for some tasks. Automatism should be done programmatically by machines serving humans.

Edit: Wait, so this was a debian patch? Now, this does not nullify my prior statements, but they should have said so clearly that debian screwed up here rather than the linux kernel devs.