Monday Patch Queue Review update (2026-09-28)

[Carlos O'Donell]

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

Meeting: 2026-09-28 @ 0900h EST5EDT

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

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

​ * State NEW delegate NOBODY at 663 patches.
  * Starting at 144787.
  * powerpc: Fix stack buffer overflow in ld.so error messages (BZ 34541) (Adhemerval)
   * Adhemerval: Extended the fix with more testing.
   * powerpc: Fix stack buffer overflow in _dl_reloc_overflwo (bug 34541) (Florian)
    * Marked superseded.
   * Reviewer Pool: Florian Weimer
  * segfault after reallocation (Was: malloc: Change mmap chunk layout) (Samuel)
   * Wilco reviewed this.
   * Changes requested.
   * Request a bug number for backport tracking.
  * Remove gethostname from sysdeps/unix/syscalls.list (Matt)
   * Reviewer Pool: Adhemerval.
  * nss_readline: move the NUL terminator along with leading-whitespace strip (Ekalabya)
   * Reviewer Pool: Avinal
  * [v3,1/1] nscd: replace alloca with malloc in aicache, hstcache [BZ #34624] (DJ)
   * codonell: Marked failed CI.
  * [v3] elf: Fix tunable comma iterator (Daniel Fellows)
   * Adhemerval: Accepted.
  * math: Make rsqrt and rsqrtf correctly rounded (Adhemerval)
   * Reviewer Pool: Wilco
  * [4/6] malloc: Put malloc_chunk into separate header (Kamran)
   * Reviewer Pool: DJ
  * [5/6] malloc: aarch64: Add MTE ifunc resolvers (Kamran)
   * Reviewer Pool: DJ
  * [6/6] malloc: aarch64: Add MTE memory tagging (Kamran)
   * Reviewer Pool: DJ
  * sparc32: restore baseline-V8 glibc builds that need an out-of-line compare-and-swap (Magnus)
   * Discussed that a conversation on the cover letter indicates the project direction is different.
   * Needs kernel support first, libgcc support, and then glibc can call that.
  * Stopping at 144533.
  * [v3] elf: Support multiple PT_GNU_RELRO segments (Adhemerval)
   * Discussed who would review. Currently with Florian.

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Cheers,
Carlos.