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From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>,
	Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>,
	libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Cc: Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Exclude tst-realloc from tests-mcheck
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 13:58:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b0903d00-b321-3f3b-3ac0-1f8b69b9da5a@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b28f333-c83a-d3e8-c825-d424b40162e7@gotplt.org>

On 7/6/21 12:12 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On 7/6/21 9:31 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar via Libc-alpha wrote:
>> The realloc (NULL, 0) test in tst-realloc fails with gcc 7.x but
>> passes with newer gcc.  This is because a newer gcc transforms the
>> realloc call to malloc (0), thus masking the bug in mcheck.
>>
>> Disable the test with mcheck for now.  The malloc removal patchset
>> will fix this and then remove this test from the exclusion list.
>>
>> I'll push this soon if there are no objections.  I'll also post an
>> updated malloc hooks patchset with these issues fixed.
>>
>> Reported-by: Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.ibm.com>
> 
> I just remembered that the tree is in slushy freeze.  Carlos, would you approve this?  I will rebase the malloc hooks patchset on top of this.

This is a non-ABI bug fix which is OK in the slushy freeze which only
coves ABI changes.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-06 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-06 16:01 Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-07-06 16:12 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-07-06 17:58   ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2021-07-06 17:59 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-07-07  7:49   ` Stefan Liebler
2021-07-07  7:59     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-07-07  8:07       ` Stefan Liebler

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