Nah, it doesn't fix the actual vuln - it's just that my exploit doesn't work out of the box because the "hid" binary uses a hardware info leak which doesn't wor

Nah, it doesn't fix the actual vuln - it's just that my exploit doesn't work out of the box because the "hid" binary uses a hardware info leak which doesn't work anymore the way I was doing it. If you patched the "leak" and "hid" binaries together, you'd still get kernel r/w on 10.13.2.