Monday Patch Queue Review update (2026-08-10)

[Adhemerval Zanella Netto]

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

Meeting: 2026-08-10 @ 0900h EST5EDT

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

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

 * Starting 141028
 * 141028 - https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/patch/lhu4ih2xhep.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com/
  * Dead-code
  * Assigned to codonell
 * 141019 - powerpc: Restore NULL check on _rtld_global_ro in INIT_ARCH [BZ #34503]
  * Patch looks ok, need a testcase
  * Assigned azanella
  * Florian sugested to remove --enable-bind-now and make it default
 * 141017 - alpha: Use the generic nscd_ssize_t
  * Assigned to fweimer
 * 141013 - LoongArch: Support pointer guard on LoongArch32
  * Let loongarch maintainer to track it
 * 140964 - [v2] io: Do not alias fts and fts64 when inode types differ
  * Assigned to azanella
 * 140727 - nscd: replace echo with printf builtin in nscd init script
  * Accepted
 * 140711 - riscv: Optimize fmaximum_num and fminimum_num
  * azanella and Andreas Schwab added a lot of comments
 * 140673 - posix: Export posix_spawn_file_actions_{addchdir, addfchdir} (BZ 34437)
  * Andreas - install on master and backport to 2.44
  * Florian - 2.44.1 would work, on the release branch do not change the header to keep symbol binding to the *_np variant
  * azanella will send a new version, along with a backport
 * 140627 - [1/2] linux: Fix time64 stat nanosecond layout in strict modes
  * azanella will send a new version
 * 140632 -  string: Declare Issue 8 functions for POSIX.1-2024 [BZ #34466]
 * Delegated to dj
 * 140541 - elf: Release dl_load_lock around ELF constructors and destructors + LD_DEBUG=loadlock observability…
  * Very complex patchset, deferring
 * 140501 - elf: Remove dead l_need_tls_init static-TLS init path
  * Assigned to fweimer
 * 140501 - malloc: Reject the top chunk in mem2chunk_check
  * Assigned to Wilco
 * Stopped at 140500

 * Florian:
  * 139244 - elf: Open the normalized $ORIGIN rpath in AT_SECURE programs (BZ 34360)
   * it might new one or even two CVEs
 * 138210 - malloc: Batched frees, tcache hysteresis behavior
  * Performance improment, Florian has run some synthetic benchmarks
  * Maybe it would better to have some SPECcpu datapoints
  * Approved - https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=63132
 
 * Andreas
  * Nothing

 * Wilco
  * Nothing 

 * Yury
  * malloc ifunc on aarch64 - https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=64204
  * gdb patch still in review - https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/20260630110443.12900-1-muhammad.kamran@arm.com/
   * Florian will discuss it internally to have some review.