Bugs With Patches

This is a list of all bugs in GLIBC Bugzilla with patches attached. Only basic annotation should be done on this page (i.e. rejected/needs review/applied), with all reasoning to be provided in the bugzilla entry

admin

• NONE

build

• Bug 6652 - --enable-oldest-abi breaks the build

• Bug 7065 - Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-protector-all

• Bug 13853 - Building libc.pot has a lot of warnings

• Bug 14259 - --localedir arg to configure is ignored

dynamic-link

• Bug 2328 - _dl_debug_state() RT_CONSISTENT called too early

• Bug 10253 - RPATH $ORIGIN breaks if resulting path has colons in it

• Bug 11754 - RFE: dlopen of ET_EXEC file

• Bug 12492 - dl: RELRO handling crashes when kernel enforces MPROTECT restrictions

• Bug 13818 - Bogus LD_PROFILE will cause application to segfault

• Bug 14370 - ld.so crashes on mismatched TLS/non-TLS symbols

• Bug 14474 - LD_DEBUG=bindings produces incorrect data

hurd

• Bug 766 - ioctl() incorrectly decodes argument

• Bug 4719 - should define _IOTIOTBASE_unsigned and _IOTIOTBASE_size_t

• Bug 11142 - Wrong <netinet/if_ether.h> installed on hurd

libc

• Bug 866 - glob should match dangling symlinks

• Bug 1062 - sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)

• Bug 2016 - argp --help infloop, via ARGP_HELP_FMT envvar

• Bug 3662 - Implementation bugs in random_r and friends

• Bug 4772 - strptime() doesn't support strftime()'s flags

• Bug 9813 - pselect implementation (when not implemneted by the kernel) agriviates the race

• Bug 9894 - Support for PI futexes wrongly marked as introduced in 2.6.18

• Bug 10191 - socket/accept4.c fails to build

• Bug 10412 - undefined behavior when porting error()

• Bug 10635 - realpath portability patches

• Bug 11610 - _init/_fini do not have proper unwinding information

• Bug 11787 - Program with large TLS segments fail

• Bug 12387 - sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/getgid.c is missing

• Bug 13983 - libc_message() shouldn't blindly write to STDERR_FILENO

• Bug 14185 - fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file name containing multi-byte character(s)

• Bug 14267 - fprintf() function is multithread-unsafe

• Bug 14333 - Fix the race between atexit() and exit()

• Bug 14362 - Incorrect ioctl declaration

• Bug 14561 - srand() initializes seed for random() function

• Bug 14812 - [patch] gettextize the word FILE in 'iconv --help'

• Bug 14894 - PowerPC: Add functions for shared resources hints

localedata

• Bug 1015 - There is a need for an alternative belarusian locale

• Bug 1170 - [patch] update locale defination file for ne_NP (Nepali)

• Bug 6917 - locale/gen-translit.pl: move preprocessing to Makefile

• Bug 10425 - [PATCH] LC_TIME for it_IT it_CH wrong

• Bug 10580 - New file for hr_HR localedata

• Bug 11484 - new Bulgarian locale

• Bug 12031 - iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters

• Bug 12059 - Please add the new locale for kikongo language support (iso-code kg)

• Bug 12068 - Sardinian locale data is wrong spelled

• Bug 12103 - Please add the new language_ary locale

• Bug 12143 - RFE chr_US Locale Data

• Bug 12349 - Incorrect thousands separator and first weekday for eu_ES locale

• Bug 12450 - Please add the new sgs_LT locale

• Bug 12676 - Please add the new language_REGION locale ln_CD

• Bug 13064 - Lack support of CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C/D in charmaps/UTF-8

• Bug 13124 - Please add new locale myv_RU

• Bug 13414 - wrong en_ZA locale decimal point

• Bug 13605 - Please add the new Shan (shn) locale

• Bug 13865 - Please add the new ug_US locale

• Bug 13994 - Please add the new ka_IN locale

• Bug 14172 - Please add the az_IR locale

• Bug 14194 - Updated cuban locale

• Bug 14247 - newlocale doesn't always set errno upon failure return

• Bug 14510 - LC_NUMERIC wrong for various latin america locales

• Bug 14878 - gap.awk makes bad conversion tables if u+0001.. u+0006 not mapped

• Bug 14925 - bn_* 'language' key should be "Bangla"

• Bug 14934 - [patch] wrong first weekday chilean locale (es_CL)

malloc

• Bug 6527 - Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC

• Bug 12114 - Adding priority inheritance to malloc locking

manual

• Bug 212 - res_init(3) is undocumented

• Bug 5081 - Recommend freeing memory at the end of a program.

• Bug 7003 - description of maximum value of random and random_r

math

• NONE

network

• Bug 4692 - Tuning failure to resolve non-existent domain names - a counterpart to the /etc/resolv.conf ndots option

• Bug 5379 - sunrpc: Fix hangs in UDP RPC calls

• Bug 9954 - getaddrinfo assertion triggered without reason

• Bug 10540 - getaddrinfo() fails if /etc/hosts is missing, instead of falling through to nss_dns

• Bug 11950 - res_send fails with ETIMEDOUT on successful DNS UPDATE

• Bug 12377 - getaddrinfo() with AI_ADDRCONFIG won't suppress AAAA queries when only IPv6 loopback and link-local addresses are present

• Bug 12398 - getaddrinfo("127.0.0.1") and/or getaddrinfo("::1) may fail with AI_ADDRCONFIG

• Bug 12556 - resolv: RES_ROTATE / options rotate broken

• Bug 13028 - Resolver sometimes fails with option rotate

• Bug 13651 - resolver fails if result to first query fails but second succeeds

• Bug 14415 - AI_V4MAPPED is useless with AI_UNSPEC but they're used together as defaults when hints=NUL

• Bug 14806 - stack overflow in getaddrinfo() when host has many addresses

nis

• NONE

nptl

• Bug 4578 - Assertion `...r_state == RT_CONSISTENT' failed!

• Bug 11588 - pthread condvars are not priority inheritance aware

• Bug 13184 - rwlocks can go into dead lock

• Bug 13690 - pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access

nscd

• Bug 11928 - nscd does not account for 'multi on' in /etc/host.conf when ai-resolving hosts|

• Bug 14906 - inotify failed when /etc/hosts file change

ports

• Bug 2160 - [PATCH] ENOATTR and EDOOFUS

• Bug 10163 - Errors math testsuite on ia64

• Bug 11615 - ld.so segfaults when RLD_MAP is 0

• Bug 12344 - HPPA has invalid _CLOEXEC and _NONBLOCK values in multiple headers

regex

• Bug 1291 - size-overflow bugs in the regex code

• Bug 13762 - re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion

• Bug 14780 - [PATCH] handle malloc() and realloc() failures in regcomp()

soft-fp

• NONE

stdio

• Bug 4656 - FILE* operations are not robust enough with signals