Monday Patch Queue Review update (2026-08-24)

[Carlos O'Donell]

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

Meeting: 2026-08-24 @ 0900h EST5EDT

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

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

  * State NEW delegate NOBODY at 676 patches.
  * Noted access to Sourceware.org giving 429's
   * Carlos: Noted, this causes downstream mirrors to fail.
  * Adhemerval: It is more services than just git.
  * Carlos: Noted that pre-commit CI is not operational since Wednesday. I raised this with DJ for review in light of the Sourceware 429 issues.
  * LoongArch: Add standard search paths for 32-bit (mengqinggang)
   * Carlos: Should be reviewed by Yinyu Cai
  * x86: Complete MSRLIST support (HJ)
   * Reviewer Pool: Arjun Shankar
  * [v2] locale: fix memory leaks in write_locales and write_charmaps (Ruslan)
   * Review assigned to Arjun since he reviewed v1.
  * LoongArch: Add LA32 pointer guard support (魏祎晗)
   * Needs machine maintainer review.
  * localedata: bn_BD, bn_IN: use full Gregorian month names for abmon (Azharul Haque)
   * Carlos: Asked Mike Fabian if he would review this patch.
  * [v2,1/2] iconvdata: JISX0213 decoding lacks pending character reset (CVE-2026-77117) (Florian)
   * Reviewer Pool: Carlos
  * advisories: fix typo in README (Rolf Eike Beer)
   * Leaving the 4 series patch set for review by the glibc security team and developers.
  * Andreas: What is the plan with the posix_spawn_file_actions, the gnulib related fix?
   * Adhemerval: I'll send a new version using 2.44.1 so we can do a point release.
   * Adhemerval: Andreas Schwab raised some concerns against it.
   * https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/7eb0b5186e742958095a8e6c0ba28973412ab1f1.camel@xry111.site/
   * https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/20260805181406.2392639-1-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org/
   * Carlos: Yes, @GLIBC_2.44.1 does solve the problem for the 2.44 release.
  * math: let architectures signal underflow after narrowing (Matt Turner)
   * Reviewer Pool: Adhemerval.
  * Stopping at 141864.
  * [v10] linux: Do not spawn a new thread for SIGEV_THREAD (BZ 30558, 27895, 29705, 32833) (Adhemerval)
   * Assigned to Carlos.
  * nptl: Retry SIGSETXID delivery on EAGAIN in setxid (bug 21108) (Adhemerval)
   * Assigned to Wilco.
  * Yury: Discuss flaky thp tests:
   * https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/aoVvdXnrQ53-8gQI@arm.com/
   * Adhemerval: Try use a tunable to disable mprotect on heap expansion.

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Cheers,
Carlos.