Comment by jacquesm

He did a ton of work and got credited for it. The four line patch isn't a ton of work once you've done the RCA and besides it required work by the maintainer to get it to pass. And he changed the essence of the interaction with the maintainer, who isn't going to hang around to teach a newcomer how to properly submit a patch in a cycle of back-and-forths (of which there were already plenty) in a security issue.