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Re:Red Hat reports security issue in Linux Kernel which was ... by bonzini on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:02AM (#23624593)
> More commonly, no one notices and these bugs never get fixed in downstream kernels that aren't staying up to-date with LTS

Actually a lot of RHEL subsystems are updated wholesale by including all upstream patches (not just those that go into LTS kernels), and this way all such fixes are automatically included.

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