Interesting! We did a similar analysis on Content Security Policy bugs in Chrome and Firefox some time ago, where the average bug-to-report time was around 3 years and 1 year, respectively. https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentat...

Our bug dataset was way smaller, though, as we had to pinpoint all bug introductions unfortunately. It's nice to see the Linux project uses proper "Fixes: " tags.

> It's nice to see the Linux project uses proper "Fixes: " tags.

Sort of. They often don't.