Why yes, it is "slop" and Linus introduced a bug based on what the LLM produced.

He didn't even review the code. [0] Someone else did.

[0] https://lwn.net/ml/all/as6vBoWQGglxXxb0@thinkstation/

This is what happens when you use LLMs and this is far more irresponsible of Linus because he is vibe coding C code in the kernel.