Hi, On 2020-08-06 12:52, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Aurelien Jarno: > > > On 2020-08-06 06:08, Jinpu Wang wrote: > >> Hi Florian, > >> > >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 6:44 PM Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > * Jinpu Wang: > >> > > >> > > Dear Maintainer: > >> > > > >> > > Sorry, add some missing information below: > >> > > > >> > > After update to Buster, the systemd-sysusers are segfaulting every > >> > > time. > >> > > After search around, I found following bugreport in glibc > >> > > https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2016-06/msg01015.html > >> > > > >> > > I backported to the fix to 2.28-10, it fixed the problem. > >> > > > >> > > glibc upstream have a different fix for it in 2.32, see > >> > > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20338 > >> > > > >> > > I think it's still easier to backport the fix in msg01015.html to 2.28 > >> > > version, > >> > > patch attached in the initial report. > >> > > >> > The patch from 2016 is incomplete because it does not seek back to the > >> > original file position, so the next call of fgetsgent_r skips over the > >> > entry that could not be fully parsed. > >> Thanks for quick response, can you provide a minimum bugfix, which > >> can be easily backported to old version like 2.28? > > > > I think we do not want to diverge from the upstream fix, even if it is a > > bit more work to backport. We first need to fix it in bullseye/sid and > > then we can try to get this in the next buster stable release. > > I can backport it to upstream release branches, all the way to version > 2.28. Would that help? > > I plan to add local copies of the new functions, so that the > GLIBC_PRIVATE ABI remains unchanged. > > But I have other commitments, so that may not happen until > September-ish.
Yes, that would definitely help. The timing should not be an issue, I still have to prepare a buster upload. Thanks, Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net
