Backporting patches for #21754?

[Florian Weimer]

On 11/20/2017 02:44 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The patch for #21754 changes the output on a heap corruption. That is,
> it no longer prints the backtrace when it detectes a heap corruption.  I
> am considering backporting it because I want to backport Wilco's
> single-threaded improvements without change the code.  Also, I reckon
> most distributions will want this patch backported anyway despite the
> user-visible change.
> 
> Thoughts?

I don't see any problem with the backport.

Please be aware that if you backport

commit 24cffce7366c4070d8f823702a4fcec2cb732595
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 31 14:55:11 2017 +0200

     malloc: Resolve compilation failure in NDEBUG mode

you also need:

commit d74e6f6c0de55fc588b1ac09c88eb0fb8b8600af
Author: Wilco Dijkstra <wdijkstr@arm.com>
Date:   Thu Oct 19 18:19:55 2017 +0100

     Fix deadlock in _int_free consistency check

Thanks,
Florian