Do you know when you'll have time to respond to Michael's last email? I've marked this patch "waiting on author" in the meantime.
I think this patch needs to be looked upon by committer now. I have done review and added some code in this patch as well long back, just see the e-mail [1], patch is just same as it was in October 2015. I think myself and Michael are in agreement that this patch solves the reported problem. There is one similar problem [2] reported by Heikki which I think can be fixed separately.
I think the main reason of moving this thread to hackers from bugs is to gain some more traction which I see that it achieves its purpose to some extent, but I find that more or less we are at same situation as we were back in October.
Let me know if you think anything more from myside can help in moving patch.