Monday Patch Queue Review update (2024-10-21)

[Carlos O'Donell]

Most recent meeting status is always here:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/PatchworkReviewMeetings#Update

Meeting: 2024-10-21 @ 0900h EST5EDT

Video/Audio: https://bbb.linuxfoundation.org/room/adm-alk-1uu-7fu

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

Review new patches and restart review at the top.

 * ​State NEW delegate NOBODY at 471 patches.
 * Discussed briefly "[v8] linux: Add support for getrandom vDSO" and Carlos handed back to Florian for final review.
 * Starting at 99227.
 * [RFC] realloc: Make REALLOC_ZERO_BYTES_FREES into a tunable (Siddhesh)
  * Marked RFC
 * [RFC] rseq: Validate read-only fields under DEBUG_RSEQ config (Mathieu)
  * Mark NA (kernel patch)
 * Add more tests of pthread_mutexattr_gettype and pthread_mutexattr_settype (Joseph)
  * Reviewer Pool: Adhemerval
 * [v2] libio: Fix a deadlock after fork in popen (Arjun)
  * Reviewer Pool: Carlos
 * [v2] stdio-common: Fix scanf parsing for NaN types [BZ #30647] (Avinal)
  * Reviewer Pool: Arjun
 * aarch64: Add support for Guarded Control Stack extension (Yury)
  * Carlos: Marked RFC.
 * RISCV:Add builtin for some riscv version function (wangboyao)
  * Marked as failed CI.
 * Check time arguments to pthread_timedjoin_np and pthread_clockjoin_np (Joseph)
  * Reviewer Pool: DJ
 * Add .b4-config file (Jonathan)
  * Florian to review and approve, since it looks sensible.
 * rtld: Move architecture specific struct last in _rtld_global_ro (BZ #32279) (Wilco)
  * Wilco: If you change architecture specific features then it changes the whole structure layout.
  * Florian: The structure helps optimize access to the structure members. Do we need this optimization today?
  * Carlos: Note that this causes upgrade issue.
  * Wilco: Look at revising to make this a distinct global.
  * Marked changes requested.
 * Adhemerval: Use a gnu attribute for memory sealing to support non-dyanmic scenarios of static link non-pie.
  * Improve executable stack handling (Adhemerval)
   * With Florian for review. 
   * Florian and Adhemerval discussed the status of the patch.
 * AArch64: Use bitfield in cpu_features struct (BZ #32279) (Wilco)
  * Carlos: What about this one?
  * Wilco: I'll discuss with Florian.
 * [v4] nss: reject invalid port passed to getaddrinfo [BZ #16208] (Antonio)
  * Reviewer Pool: Wilco.
 * Stopping at 99066.

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Cheers,
Carlos.