Hello I cannot test this o-o-stable kernel, but searching this particular chunk i found that this test is no more performed this way but:
KALLSYMS="/proc/kallsyms" [ -f /proc/ksysm ] && KALLSYMS="/proc/$KALLSYMS" So kernel release is no more relevant. I believe that this bug is fixed. Could you confirm my findings? Greetings, Marcos