Monday Patch Queue Review update (2025-06-16)

[Carlos O'Donell]

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

Meeting: 2025-06-16 @ 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.

  * Status of upcoming 2.42 release.
   * https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/23416069.EfDdHjke4D@kona/T/#u​
   * Yury: What do I do about things that I would like in the releas?
   * Carlos: Please respond to Andreas' thread and discuss blockers and release.
   * Cupertino: I have MTE patches that I'd like to be part of the release.
   * Carlos: Note: https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.42 is the release page.
  * State NEW delegate NOBODY at 680 patches.
  * Starting at 114524.
  * aarch64: simplify calls to __libc_arm_za_disable in assembly (Yury)
   * Review for Wilco?
  * aarch64: GCS: use internal struct in __alloc_gcs (Yury)
   * Carlos: As machine maintainer you can push these changes, though review is always good.
   * Yury: I expect Wilco can review?
  * malloc: tcache improvements (Cupertino)
   * Cupertino: Wilco has been reviewing.
   * Wilco: They are correct, performance looks really good.
  * i386: Update ___tls_get_addr to preserve vector register (H.J.)
   * Reviewer assigned to Adhemerval.
  * iconv: Fix iconv functions not following symlinks [BZ #32339] (Avinal)
   * Reviewer Pool: Arjun
  * elf: Add _dl_ehdr_start_before_reloc (H.J.)
   * Superseded by 114511.
  * Always check lockf64 return value (H.J.)
   * Committed.
  * [v3] fstat: add test and documentation for an edge case. (Matteo)
   * Reviewer Pool: Arjun Shankar.
  * wctype/Makefile: Split and sort tests (Jens)
   * Florian reviewed v1 and will review v2.
  * fstatat: extend tests and documentation (Matteo)
   * Reviewer Pool: Carlos
  * stdlib: resolve a double lock init issue after fork [BZ #32994] (Davide)
   * Under review from Florian.
  * Stoppped at 114478.
  * [1/3] ppc64le: Revert "powerpc: Optimized strncmp for power10" (CVE-2025-5745) (Carlos)
   * Carlos: Would like review.
   * Florian: Missing a commit.
   * Carlos: I'll refactor.

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Cheers,
Carlos.