Monday Patch Queue Review update (2026-07-06)

[Carlos O'Donell]

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

Meeting: 2026-07-06 @ 0900h EST5EDT

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

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

​ * Release planning is in effect and we are reviewing blockers and desirables.
  * Discussed entering Freeze and machine testing.
  * Carlos: I'm going to be testing x86_64, i686, s390x, aarch64, and ppc64le.
  * Andreas: ppc64le (POWER9, BE/LE), SPARC, and others.
  * Adehemerval: Need to check if I have machine access to SPARC boxes.
  * Carlos: Note cfarm has loognarch64 and mips64 for testing too.
  * Andreas: For hppa there is https://static.matoro.tk/isa-sandbox-faq.html
  * s390: Prevent hoisting the thread-pointer read in THREAD_SET_STACK_GUARD (BZ 34297) (Adhemerval)
   * Accepted by Stefan Liebler (IBM) as machine maintainer.
   * Please push.
  * [v2] posix: Fix wordexp WRDE_APPEND to preserve state on non-NOSPACE errors (BZ 34090, CVE-2026-6368) (Adhemerval)
   * Needs review.
  * elf: Remove dead l_need_tls_init static-TLS init path (Adhemerval)
   * Still under review by Florian.
  * Discussed malloc ifunc issues.
  * Yury: We have two options, one to define USE_MULTIARCH_MALLOC to allow distributions to disable.
  * Andreas: We apply the revert patch now, and undo it immediately after the release?
  * Adhemerval: Does Valgrind work?
  * Carlos: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522497
  * Agreed to revert the malloc ifunc and then put it back after the patch.
  * linux: Inline syscall cancellation to keep wrapper frames observable (BZ 34338) (Adhemerval)
   * Discussed the pros and cons.
   * Andreas: Add this in after the release?
   * Reviewer Pool: Wilco

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Cheers,
Carlos.