[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] glibc: Upgrade to 2.25

[Khem Raj]

On 1/13/17 10:45 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 12:19 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
>> The gdk-pixbuf link does use -lpthread, is this saying that libpng
>> should be linked against pthread too?  I can replicate on demand if
>> you have any suggestions.
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> So, amusingly, it now appears that libpng in pthread-using programs has
> actually been a bit broken for a long time, since about glibc 2.22.
>  It's just that the failure has now become more obvious, because ld.so
> will refuse to load the binary at all rather than allowing it to load
> and having it crash later under some circumstances.
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> Whether the circumstances that would cause the crash (libpng calling
> longjmp) can ever arise with gdk-pixbuf is another question and I don't
> know the answer offhand.  If this can happen then it would probably be
> when dealing with a corrupted input file.
> 
> Anyway, this is definitely a glibc bug and it is now on the list of
> blockers for 2.25.  Good work by Ross in finding it!

I have sent a patchset with IFUNC change reverted for now until its fixed.

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