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Re:Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix by kanox on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @06:56AM (#20875892)
> Linus Torvalds was the only person who've noticed the problem in the final merge and applied a fix manually before merging it to the mainline

The fix was done as part of the merge commit itself, it should have been a separate patch.

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Re:Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix by phil9987 on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @07:16AM (#20876000)
So one could argue that Linus kinda failed in fixing the problem he has identified correctly.
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