"The patch applies fine to 2.26 and 2.30 (except for tests, but we don't need them)."
but we do. normally whenever doing toolchain fixes and updates, unittests are expected to be backported as all of them are exercised before allowing to release the update. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to binutils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1903814 Title: [binutils] Prevent GOT access rewrite for certain symbols Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems: Triaged Status in binutils package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in binutils source package in Bionic: New Bug description: Please backport the following bugfix into Ubuntu LTS: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=e6213e09ed0e Some relevant historic links: Debian bugreport: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=961736 glibc bugreport: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18960 In s390 kernel context, this bug manifests itself as random errors and infinite loops, so it's fairly severe. These are the current versions of binutils: Package binutils xenial (16.04LTS) (devel): GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8 [security]: amd64 i386 2.26-8ubuntu2 [ports]: arm64 armhf powerpc ppc64el s390x xenial-updates (devel): GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8: amd64 arm64 armhf i386 powerpc ppc64el s390x bionic (18.04LTS) (devel): GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.4 [security]: amd64 i386 2.30-15ubuntu1 [ports]: arm64 armhf ppc64el s390x bionic-updates (devel): GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities 2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04.4: amd64 arm64 armhf i386 ppc64el s390x focal (20.04LTS) (devel): GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities 2.34-6ubuntu1: amd64 arm64 armhf i386 ppc64el s390x groovy (devel): GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities 2.35.1-1ubuntu1: amd64 arm64 armhf i386 ppc64el s390x The patch applies fine to 2.26 and 2.30 (except for tests, but we don't need them). We don't need it on 2.32+. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-z-systems/+bug/1903814/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
