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Re: Pre-release review of glibc 2.17: 0 P1 bugs, 14 P2 bugs, 0 P3bugs.
From: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:09:55 +1000
> On 30/11/12 03:37, Jeff Law wrote:
>> On 11/29/2012 09:50 AM, David Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>> "assertion error in res_query.c"
>>>> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13013
>>>> - Patch exists.
>>>> - Insufficient review.
>>>
>>> I think I could review this patch and that it would be worth trying to
>>> get it into the release.
>> FWIW, we've had the patch in Fedora since Feb. Andreas checked in a
>> patch which fixed one of the two asserts in that code a while back.
>> However, there were still paths where the other assert could trigger.
>> Nobody's been able to trigger with a publicly available name server to
>> the best of my knowledge.
>
> It is also been used in Arch for ages and I think most other distros
> too. While no-one can replicate on public DNS servers, everyone who did
> report and issue seems to report it being fixed with this patch.
>
> Also, the explanation provided with the patch makes sense to me...
I audited this patch this afternoon and I'm going to install this
change and close the bug after some testing completes.
Thanks to everyone for the contextual information, it really helps.