Monday Patch Queue Review update (2026-06-01)
Carlos O'Donell
carlos@redhat.com
Mon Jun 1 13:58:45 GMT 2026
Most recent meeting status is always here:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/PatchworkReviewMeetings#Update
Meeting: 2026-06-01 @ 0900h EST5EDT
Video/Audio: https://bbb.linuxfoundation.org/room/adm-alk-1uu-7fu
IRC: #glibc on OFTC.
* State NEW delegate NOBODY at 613 patches.
* Starting 136164.
* elf: Fix tst-ifunc-tls-init with --disable-default-pie (Adhemerval)
* Reviewer Pool: Yury
* [v4,1/1] malloc: aarch64: Add ifuncs for malloc functions (Yury)
* Florian: A different use case to validate the implementation could be to look at Wilco's patch to put tcache data in the TCB.
* Carlos: Have you tested valgrind and ASAN still work after this change?
* Reviewer Pool: Adhemerval.
* Add [v]aprintf(3) (Alejandro Colomar)
* Discussed that there is still an EOVERFLOW case that needs review.
* This comment from Florian applies: https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/87h5nmo5cz.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com/
* Carlos: I commented that patch 3 can be split out and commited.
* Mitigating __pointer_chk_guard_local exposure and pointer mangling in ld.so (Anderson)
* Marked dropped after discussion.
* There could be improvements in the implementation.
* Move towards having this in RO data?
* Carlos: Open a bug for the hardening feature?
* elf: Allow RPATH/RUNPATH for static-pie (Adhemerval)
* [v9,3/5] Fix assert during static startup (BZ 33326)
* Reviewer Pool: Florian Weimer
* Stopped at 136015.
* Carlos: Reviewing v6 SIGEV_THREAD.
* [v2] arm: Save/restore VFP registers in PLT trampolines (BZ 34144, BZ 15792) (Adhemerval)
* Reviewer Pool: Wilco
* Schedule for the release: https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/2jU_525XQE24wF-uVam5ug@gentoo.org/T/#u
* Carlos: I'll review dates against my expectations.
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Cheers,
Carlos.
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