tst-setlocale3 failure when backported to glibc-2.19

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 28 August 2014 17:37, Allan McRae <mcrae_allan@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to backport the fix for CVE-2014-0475/BZ#17137 (directory
> traversal in locale-related environment variables) to glibc-2.19.  See
> the allan/2.19/backport branch (which I intend to merge to the 2.19
> release branch soon).
>
> However, the added test with this fix - tst-setlocale3 - is failing:
>
> $ cat glibc-build/localedata/tst-setlocale3.out
> setlocale for "/en_US.UTF-8": No such file or directory
>
> I do not see this for the master branch.  Is there something else I need
> to backport for this to work, or is my backport broken for other reasons?

You need to backport the patch that sets LOCPATH for all tests:

commit 2bf1804182cc4bd671193587c8d5e3de45a9618e
Author: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 4 23:37:25 2014 +0000

    Include LOCPATH in default test environment.


Siddhesh
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