Thanks for clarifying.
My confusion stemmed from the fact that the bug is supposed to affect pixel 6 devices, which aren’t listed in the QPR2 updates but were explicitly mentioned in the update to r37p0.
My confusion stemmed from the fact that the bug is supposed to affect pixel 6 devices, which aren’t listed in the QPR2 updates but were explicitly mentioned in the update to r37p0.
All of the security fixes first shipped with QPR2 Beta 1 on December 12 which we shipped on December 14th were then shipped in the AOSP / stock Pixel OS January stable release despite it still using r36p0.
The security patches are available without updating the major release, at least if you're either an ARM partner or an ARM partner has published an update with the patches and therefore released them. In our case, we can't get the standalone security patches directly from ARM but we can ship the kernel backports as soon as they're in an Android quarterly or major release beta. We can't necessarily ship the major releases of the driver just because they're in a quarterly or major release since they can depend on other changes which is what happened with the Pixel 6. It crashes without updating the userspace driver, not just the kernel driver, and updating the userspace driver seems to require other changes. It's not blocking any security patches though.