Hi Carlos,
I was going through the latest test failures in rawhide and one of
them is in tst-dl-iter-static. I tracked the reason for failure to
the fix for the bz 737223.
The bz is an obscure crash in GL applications when using the
proprietary nvidia driver and someone tracked it down to the
assignment of the vdso soname to l->l_name. The fix was to do that
assignment only when debug mask is non-zero, which seems to mask the
crash.
Through all that, there seemed to have been no root cause analysis for
the crash, so we don't even know if the fix only papered over a
symptom or if it actually fixed something. I could easily work around
the failed test, but it seems to me that the right thing to here would
be to drop the patch and see if the crash is still there, which would
obviously be by waiting for bug reports. That would give us a chance
to fix it correctly or at least justify the current fix to send it
upstream. What do you think?
Siddhesh