glibc 2.24 --- Hard freeze starting

[Khem Raj]

> On Jul 14, 2016, at 7:35 AM, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> Maintainers,
> 
> We are now in hard freeze as stated last week (with to days off due some
> recent fixes).  As before, please keep your commits minimal, documentation
> changes only, simple bug fixes, and no translatable strings.
> 
> Please start test your machines, refresh the ULP files and update the
> release page [2].
> 
> Current I see that we have 3 blockers:
> 
> 1. [BZ #13165] New condition variable: Torvalds, I think you the most
>   qualified to give us if you think or not this change is safe enough
>   for 2.24 inclusion or if you prefer to commit in start of 2.25. I do
>   not have a strong opinion.
> 
> 2. malloc: Remove malloc_get_state, malloc_set_state: based on recent build
>   issues with malloc hook change, I would suggest to move this change to
>   2.25.
> 
> 3. [PATCH] Fix cos computation for multiple precision fallback (bz #20357):
>   I plan to review this patch today or tomorrow, but this its straightforward
>   and contained enough so we can commit.  The only issue I see the possible
>   need of ULP regeneration in some architectures, so ideally we should push
>   this by the end of this week.
> 
> About the security bugs to news, the only one that is not documented in NEWS
> is BZ#19755 [4].  My understanding is this does not have a CVE assigned, so
> should we still explicit add it on NEWS?
> 
> Any other blockers and/or comments?

I think http://patchwork.sourceware.org/patch/13798/
is needed too, otherwise kernel compiles fail due to new EM_METAG
being added lately but not the relocation definitions.

> 
> [1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-05/msg00605.html
> [2] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-06/msg00905.html
> [3] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-07/msg00315.html
> [4] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19755

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