Monday Patch Queue Review update (2025-11-03)

[Carlos O'Donell]

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

Meeting: 2025-11-03 @ 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 583.
  * Starting at 123296.
  * i386: Simplify powl computation for small integral y [BZ #33586] (HJ)
   * Reviewer Pool: Adhemerval.
  * pthread: add PTHREAD_NULL (Allyssa)
   * Noted that Colin indicated this needs a dependent change.
   * Carlos noted Colin's patch for this is in his queue for review.
   * So blocked on Carlos for review.
   * Marking Changes Requested.
  * [v2] Build programs in $(others-noinstall) like if libgcc_s is available (HJ)
   * Changes requested by Andreas.
  * Add initial clang build support (Adhemerval)
   * Collin Funk doing the initial review.
   * Carlos noted pre-commit CI failure in one of the tests. Is this reproducible?
  * Remove the SVID wrapper from most of float functions (Adhemerval)
   * Some RBs from Wilco.
   * Waiting for feedback from Adhemerval for the rest.
  * aarch64: Support enforcing BTI (Yury)
   * Reviewer Pool: Florian Weimer
  * Don't build programs in $(others-noinstall) like tests when cross-compiling (HJ)
   * Superseded.
  * Add a comment for NO_MATH_REDIRECT (HJ)
   * Reviewer Pool: DJ
  * linux: Add openat2 (BZ 31664) (Adhemerval)
   * Reviewer Pool: Carlos
  * nscd: nscd.h: fix off-by-one buffer overflow in init_traced_file (Anton)
   * Review in progress.
  * locale: programs: repertoire.c: Limit maximum range size to prevent resource exhaustion (Anton)
   * Changes requested, since it needs a bug number.
  * iconv: skeleton.c: Fix potential NULL dereference in FUNCTION_NAME (Anton)
   * Changes requested, since it needs a bug number.
  * iconv: iconv.c: fix null pointer dereference when outbuf is NULL (Anton)
   * Review in progress with comments by Andreas.
  * Updates struct tcp_info and TCP_AO_XX corresponding struct from 6.17 to netinet/tcp.h (Jiayuan)
   * Reviewer Pool: Adhemerval (continued review of similar changes).
  * Remove support for lock elision. (Stefan)
   * Reviewer Pool: Wilco.
  * nss: Ignore stayopen flag and keep the db open (Ponnuvel)
   * Review in progress. Changes requested.
  * Stopping at 122327.
  * Requested review for libc-stable 2.41 backport.
   * Carlos to look at patch 3.
   * https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-stable/20251027153210.353196-1-yury.khrustalev@arm.com/T/#m60a7406fbdbff52f7451418f50cdc6f034bfe370

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Cheers,
Carlos.