Probably wouldn’t work in the end described. The only way to get it in would be to get the maintainers to accept the patch, then wait for redhat to pull it in,

Probably wouldn’t work in the end described. The only way to get it in would be to get the maintainers to accept the patch, then wait for redhat to pull it in, then wait for a stable OS release, then wait for the IT guys to approve that release for internal use, then wait for the other IT guys to install it on your nodes. Every time we had an issue the only option was to literally divert the flow of a river around it in some way. The positive outcome of this was the sheer amount of outside the box thinking practice genuinely lead to some of us gaining semi elite debugging and hacking skills. My own favourite was writing a tool to frig with the IAT in PE files on windows NT so you could inject a new function to wrap vendor DLL functions so we could patch bugs without involving the vendor.