Monday Patch Queue Review update (2026-08-24)
Carlos O'Donell <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha |
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| Organization | Red Hat, LLC. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Most recent meeting status is always here: https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/PatchworkReviewMeetings#Update Meeting: 2026-08-24 @ 0900h EST5EDT Video/Audio: https://bbb.linuxfoundation.org/room/adm-alk-1uu-7fu IRC: #glibc on OFTC. * State NEW delegate NOBODY at 676 patches. * Noted access to Sourceware.org giving 429's * Carlos: Noted, this causes downstream mirrors to fail. * Adhemerval: It is more services than just git. * Carlos: Noted that pre-commit CI is not operational since Wednesday. I raised this with DJ for review in light of the Sourceware 429 issues. * LoongArch: Add standard search paths for 32-bit (mengqinggang) * Carlos: Should be reviewed by Yinyu Cai * x86: Complete MSRLIST support (HJ) * Reviewer Pool: Arjun Shankar * [v2] locale: fix memory leaks in write_locales and write_charmaps (Ruslan) * Review assigned to Arjun since he reviewed v1. * LoongArch: Add LA32 pointer guard support (魏祎晗) * Needs machine maintainer review. * localedata: bn_BD, bn_IN: use full Gregorian month names for abmon (Azharul Haque) * Carlos: Asked Mike Fabian if he would review this patch. * [v2,1/2] iconvdata: JISX0213 decoding lacks pending character reset (CVE-2026-77117) (Florian) * Reviewer Pool: Carlos * advisories: fix typo in README (Rolf Eike Beer) * Leaving the 4 series patch set for review by the glibc security team and developers. * Andreas: What is the plan with the posix_spawn_file_actions, the gnulib related fix? * Adhemerval: I'll send a new version using 2.44.1 so we can do a point release. * Adhemerval: Andreas Schwab raised some concerns against it. * https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/[email protected]/ * https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/[email protected]/ * Carlos: Yes, @GLIBC_2.44.1 does solve the problem for the 2.44 release. * math: let architectures signal underflow after narrowing (Matt Turner) * Reviewer Pool: Adhemerval. * Stopping at 141864. * [v10] linux: Do not spawn a new thread for SIGEV_THREAD (BZ 30558, 27895, 29705, 32833) (Adhemerval) * Assigned to Carlos. * nptl: Retry SIGSETXID delivery on EAGAIN in setxid (bug 21108) (Adhemerval) * Assigned to Wilco. * Yury: Discuss flaky thp tests: * https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/[email protected]/ * Adhemerval: Try use a tunable to disable mprotect on heap expansion. -- Cheers, Carlos.