Monday Patch Queue Review update (2026-07-13)

[Carlos O'Donell]

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

Meeting: 2026-07-13 @ 0900h EST5EDT

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

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

​ * Upstream glibc 2.44 release.
  * Review release blockers.
  * [v2] posix: Fix wordexp WRDE_APPEND to preserve state on non-NOSPACE errors (BZ 34090, CVE-2026-6368) (Adhemerval)
   * Changes requested (reviewed by DJ).
  * Discussed 3 CVEs to fix for the release.
  * One is fixed. One is under review. The last one needs some final work.
  * This issue has security+ https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31026
  * elf: Remove dead l_need_tls_init static-TLS init path (Adhemerval)
   * Postponed to next release.
  * linux: Inline syscall cancellation to keep wrapper frames observable (BZ 34338) (Adhmerval)
   * Still under review by Wilco. Carlos reached out to check on review.
  * Fixes for the system-wide tunables support (Adhemerval)
   * Preparing to push to the branch.
  * benchtests: Build benchmarks in parallel (Adhemerval)
   * Accepted by RM (Andreas)
  * sparc: Fix static (non-PIE) executables when PIE is enabled by default (Adhemveral)
   * Accepted by RM (Andreas)
  * [v2] Add RWF_NOSIGNAL from Linux 6.18 to bits/uio-ext.h (Adhemerval)
   * Reviewer Pool: Carlos O'Donell
  * [v2] Use correct type for glibc.malloc.perturb in tst-tunconf1.c (Stefan)
   * Reviewer: Andreas Huettel
  * Made it through blockers and desirable for the release.
  * Made it through a review of the current machine failures.
  * Noted that https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Testing/Tests/resolv/tst-resolv-res_init-failure is an odd failure with xaccept failing EMFILE but depends on system limits. Not clera why the test would hit the limits.

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Cheers,
Carlos.