That seems to directly contradict gkh and others (including the researchers) in the email exchange in the original post - these vulnerable patches reached stabl

That seems to directly contradict gkh and others (including the researchers) in the email exchange in the original post - these vulnerable patches reached stable trees and maintainers had to revert them. They may not have been included in a release, but should gkh not have intervened *this would have reached users*, especially if the researchers weren't apparently aware their commits were reaching stable.