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A large number of security issues are not backported to stable or LTS kernels.

A patch containing a new feature which tangentially fixes a security issue is merged to mainline. It will not get merged into stable or LTS (by definition).

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To the extent that you've made specific claims, they are false. It's hard to argue with vague claims about tangentially fixing a security issue but at any rate just looking over LTS releases, they absolutely and frequently do backport security issues to LTS releases. They don't do it for every security issue, but the idea that they rarely do it or only do it as part of a tangential change is once again... categorically false.

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