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by svenpeter 1296 days ago
That merge only has fixed because of how the development model works: there’s a merge window where new features are merged and which then becomes -rc1. After that only fixes are allowed until the final release of that version and then the merge window opens again.
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That makes sense, so I just picked another commit at random without a -rc tag:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c60c152230828825c06...

  The fix is to change && to ||
This seems like the exact type of bug that a unit test could prevent.