I'm on Fedora 43 and tried to hack myself with the python script. It didn't work on kernel 6.19.12-200.fc43.x86_64 which has a build date of April 12, 2026

None of this impacts disclosure norms. One important reason the clock starts ticking faster once any patch lands is that for serious attackers, the patch discloses the vulnerability. That's quadruply so in 2026, when many orgs are automatically pumping Linux patches through LLM pipelines to qualify them for exploitability.

But it's been at least 15 years since "reversing means patches are effectively disclosures legible mostly to attackers" became a norm in software security. And that was for closed-source software (most notably Windows). The norms are even laxer for open source.