Both were correct! The original was correct, but produced a warning. Linus fixed the warning correctly. LTS folks "fixed" it incorrectly: "As a further failure,

Both were correct! The original was correct, but produced a warning. Linus fixed the warning correctly. LTS folks "fixed" it incorrectly: "As a further failure, instead of looking at Linus' correct fix (observable by checking out the master tree at the time), the approach employed in the LTS kernels seems to have been to naively silence the warning by simply swapping the order of the two lines".