[OE-core] [PATCH v2] bash: 4.4.18 -> 4.4.23

[Jeroen Hofstee]

Hello Richard,

On 09/27/2018 01:05 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-09-24 at 18:29 +0200, Jeroen Hofstee wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Jeroen Hofstee <jhofstee at victronenergy.com>
>> ---
>> v2: add patch subject prefix
>> ---
>>   meta/recipes-extended/bash/bash_4.4.18.bb | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> I saw a question about why this hasn't merged yet. The reason is quite
> simple, we're past feature freeze and we need a good reason to take
> general upgrades.
>
> There is nothing in this commit message which gives any idea how
> important the issues between .18 and .23 are, therefore its duly being
> ignored until 2.7.
>
> If there is a good reason we should break general policy, it needs to
> be in the commit message.
>
>

The issue we were having is that the bash in rocko can lead to a
indefinitely spinning process and a zombie by a simple $()
statement in a long running script. patch20 [1] fixes that.

I don't know about the others, I included them since it are official
bash bug fixes.

Regards,
Jeroen

[1]  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.4-patches/bash44-020