Sounds like the latter. They "found" it and requested a CVE, but it was already ...

		parliament32 on June 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Red Hat reports security issue in Linux Kernel whi... Sounds like the latter. They "found" it and requested a CVE, but it was already fixed -- they just hadn't merged that change because they didn't notice it was security-related.