Monday Patch Queue Review update (2024-09-30)

[Carlos O'Donell]

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

Meeting: 2024-09-30 @ 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 460 patches.
 * Carlos's SLI at 374 days average patch age in queue and 173645 accumulated patch days.
 * Starting at 98157.
 * nss: look for databases in /usr/share/nss/ if they don't exist in /etc/ (Lennart)
  * Florian: I'll review that one.
 * Teach glibc about possible page sizes and handle gaps in ld.so (Florian)
  * Reviewer Pool: Adhemerval.
 * [v1] x86/string: Fixup alignment of main loop in str{n}cmp-evex [BZ #32212] (Noah)
  * Accepted. HJ reviewed.
 * [v8] linux: Add support for getrandom vDSO (Adhemerval)
   * Carlos: Florian, will you review this one?
   * Florian: Yes, assigned to me.
 * [v2,1/1] stdio-common: Add more tests of the setvbuf() function. (Nick)
  * Carlos: I'm going to review this one. Assigned to me.
 * S390: Don't use r11 for cu-instructions as used as frame-pointer. [BZ# 32192] (Stefan)
  * Florian: Looks, reasonable, I can just ack it?
  * Carlos: Please and thank you.
 * [v2] Add a new fwrite test that exercises buffer overflow (Tulio)
  * Already reviewed and accepted. Tulio should push.
 * [v3] aarch64: Add support for memory protection keys (Yury)
  * Yury: Final patch, previous versions were RFE.
  * Carlos: Florian, Any preconditions? Testing?
  * Florian: I could try to rebase my RELRO patches to do a non-synthetic test case?
  * Adhemeral: Please assign to me, I'll review.
  * Assigned to Adhemerval.
 * stdio-common: Add new test for fdopen (Sergey)
  * Carlos: Failed CI. Old v1, superseded.
  * Adhemeral: Why didn't this fail?
  * Florian: Might be toolchain defaults?
  * We currently have both fortify source on and off via the Intel and Arm builders.
 * io: statx, fstatat64: allow using NULL as path (Miao Wang)
  * Florian: I commented on this.
  * Note there were some email bounces here.
 * Stopped at 97558.
 * Adhemerval: getrandom vDSO, Make accounting database no-op, Make abort() AS-Safe.
  * [v4] stdlib: Make abort/_Exit AS-safe (BZ 26275) (Adhemerval)
   * This patch could use review and comments.
  * Carlos: What about "linux: Do not spawn a new thread for SIGEV_THREAD (BZ 30558, 27895, 29705) (Adhemerval)"? We should fix this kind of robustness issue.
 * Florian: Review this? "[v4] Do not export <alloc_buffer.h> functions from libc (Florian)"
  * Carlos: I'll review this.
 * Florian: What about the condition variable fix?
  * Carlos: Waiting on downstream feedback to a deployed test fix. There are two ABAs we need to fix, one doesn't matter, one does.
 * Adhemerval: What else do we need to handle the core math implementation changes?
  * Carlos: Nothing, all the SOBs are there.
  * Florian: LICENSES file needs an update and that can be done in a separate commit.
 * Andreas: Nothing to raise.
 * Carlos: Note that there are rand patches from Wilco we need to review.
 * Yury: Nothing from me.

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Cheers,
Carlos.