I hate to say it, but reporting this should be easy. First step is obviously to report it to the maker of your distribution, since they may have (almost certainly have) applied patches not in the general kernel. They'll report it further up the chain if appropriate. If you're using a vanilla kernel, a description of the bug and a request for the name/e-mail of the person responsible for that area on the LKML will yield results. No need to go into details and provide code at this point, but it's just another bug and it's not THAT hard to report bugs in the LKML.

Of course this isn't the way the makers of proprietary software do it, but then this isn't proprietary software. When in doubt, we just ask where to send a particular question and usually get an answer in short order.

As for e-mailing Linus, would you expect Bill Gates to respond to e-mail direct to him about bugs? My guess is you'd be waiting a long time for a reply.

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