Just throwing it out there as an option. Good luck.

Maybe reshare the directory locally through Samba on your VM?

Its good that people care enough to keep finding these vulnerabilities

Honestly must be incredibly stressful managing a project like the Linux kernel. Governments constantly wanting changes made for their own purposes, companies leeching off the work of volunteers, neck beards losing their minds over some change they don’t like.

I don’t envy them at all. This sort of change was inevitability going to piss people off - it could have been handled better but I think it was going to be lose/lose no matter which way it was done.