"We probably should" at the end of August and that's it? Anyway, this bug is still there. I applied the workaround and got this:

 * Enabling laptop mode...
*** buffer overflow detected ***: hal-disable-polling terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7f2234cd27f7]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0xf7710)[0x7f2234cd1710]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0xf7d3b)[0x7f2234cd1d3b]
hal-disable-polling[0x40141c]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed)[0x7f2234bfb30d]
hal-disable-polling[0x40165d]
======= Memory map: ========
00400000-00403000 r-xp 00000000 08:21 2496772                            /usr/bin/hal-disable-polling
00602000-00603000 r--p 00002000 08:21 2496772                            /usr/bin/hal-disable-polling
00603000-00604000 rw-p 00003000 08:21 2496772                            /usr/bin/hal-disable-polling
01a86000-01aa7000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
7f2234580000-7f2234595000 r-xp 00000000 08:21 1054338                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
7f2234595000-7f2234794000 ---p 00015000 08:21 1054338                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
7f2234794000-7f2234795000 r--p 00014000 08:21 1054338                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
7f2234795000-7f2234796000 rw-p 00015000 08:21 1054338                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
7f2234796000-7f223479d000 r-xp 00000000 08:21 1054333                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt-2.13.so
7f223479d000-7f223499c000 ---p 00007000 08:21 1054333                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt-2.13.so
7f223499c000-7f223499d000 r--p 00006000 08:21 1054333                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt-2.13.so
7f223499d000-7f223499e000 rw-p 00007000 08:21 1054333                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt-2.13.so
7f223499e000-7f22349d9000 r-xp 00000000 08:21 1054345                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.12.1
7f22349d9000-7f2234bd8000 ---p 0003b000 08:21 1054345                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.12.1
7f2234bd8000-7f2234bd9000 r--p 0003a000 08:21 1054345                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.12.1
7f2234bd9000-7f2234bda000 rw-p 0003b000 08:21 1054345                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3.12.1
7f2234bda000-7f2234d6f000 r-xp 00000000 08:21 1054332                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
7f2234d6f000-7f2234f6e000 ---p 00195000 08:21 1054332                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
7f2234f6e000-7f2234f72000 r--p 00194000 08:21 1054332                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
7f2234f72000-7f2234f73000 rw-p 00198000 08:21 1054332                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.13.so
7f2234f73000-7f2234f79000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f2234f79000-7f2234f91000 r-xp 00000000 08:21 1054362                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.13.so
7f2234f91000-7f2235190000 ---p 00018000 08:21 1054362                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.13.so
7f2235190000-7f2235191000 r--p 00017000 08:21 1054362                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.13.so
7f2235191000-7f2235192000 rw-p 00018000 08:21 1054362                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.13.so
7f2235192000-7f2235196000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f2235196000-7f22351a6000 r-xp 00000000 08:21 2502879                    /usr/lib/libhal.so.1.0.0
7f22351a6000-7f22353a5000 ---p 00010000 08:21 2502879                    /usr/lib/libhal.so.1.0.0
7f22353a5000-7f22353a6000 r--p 0000f000 08:21 2502879                    /usr/lib/libhal.so.1.0.0
7f22353a6000-7f22353a7000 rw-p 00010000 08:21 2502879                    /usr/lib/libhal.so.1.0.0
7f22353a7000-7f22353e9000 r-xp 00000000 08:21 1054336                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3.5.7
7f22353e9000-7f22355e8000 ---p 00042000 08:21 1054336                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3.5.7
7f22355e8000-7f22355e9000 r--p 00041000 08:21 1054336                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3.5.7
7f22355e9000-7f22355ea000 rw-p 00042000 08:21 1054336                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3.5.7
7f22355ea000-7f22356de000 r-xp 00000000 08:21 1054307                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.3000.0
7f22356de000-7f22358dd000 ---p 000f4000 08:21 1054307                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.3000.0
7f22358dd000-7f22358de000 r--p 000f3000 08:21 1054307                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.3000.0
7f22358de000-7f22358df000 rw-p 000f4000 08:21 1054307                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0.3000.0
7f22358df000-7f22358e0000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f22358e0000-7f2235901000 r-xp 00000000 08:21 1054348                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
7f2235ae9000-7f2235aee000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f2235afe000-7f2235b00000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f2235b00000-7f2235b01000 r--p 00020000 08:21 1054348                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
7f2235b01000-7f2235b03000 rw-p 00021000 08:21 1054348                    /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so
7fffb2045000-7fffb2067000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [stack]
7fffb2175000-7fffb2176000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                          [vdso]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                  [vsyscall]
Aborted
   ...done.

Is this related or something else?