On Thu, 2017-01-12 at 10:39 +0100, Torvald Riegel wrote: > On Sat, 2016-12-24 at 17:01 +0100, Torvald Riegel wrote: > > === Robust mutexes have bugs, in both glibc and the kernel > > > > I've been reviewing the implementation of robust mutexes in both glibc > > and the kernel support code recently because there are several bug > > reports, for example: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1401665 > > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19402 > > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14485 > > > > This review revealed a bunch of bugs. I have committed/proposed patches > > that fix all glibc-only bugs that I am aware of: > > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00587.html > > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00862.html > > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00863.html > > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00947.html
These patches are now all committed to glibc master. Thus, you can start fixing/testing now and have a high probability that you won't run into glibc bugs.
