I believe they were speaking from the perspective of a general Linux user who wishes for their system to no longer be affected by this bug/exploit, and was aski

I believe they were speaking from the perspective of a general Linux user who wishes for their system to no longer be affected by this bug/exploit, and was asking if there are any ways to mitigate the issue (such as blacklisting certain modules ala other recent LPEs), short of updating to a patched kernel version.