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Bug 1287815

Summary: libffi needs fix for structures not passed in registers
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi>
Component: libffiAssignee: Andrew Haley <aph>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Michael Petlan <mpetlan>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.2CC: dbhole, fweimer, jcm, mcermak, mnewsome, mpetlan, pbrobinson, yselkowi
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: aarch64   
OS: All   
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Last Closed: 2016-11-04 05:04:46 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 1174037    
Bug Blocks: 1277314, 1285484, 1297579, 1313485    
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Patch for rhel-7.3 none

Description Yaakov Selkowitz 2015-12-02 18:32:58 UTC
Fedora bug 1174037 describes an issue with libffi, which was detected by a test failure in python-2.7.9:

"For any 1-16 byte structure not passed in registers, we weren't copying from the object to be passed, but from the array of objects.  To obvious ill effect."

This same issue affects libffi in RHELSA, and causes the same test failure in EPEL7 python34.

Comment 1 Yaakov Selkowitz 2015-12-02 18:43:51 UTC
Created attachment 1101589 [details]
Patch for rhel-7.3

Scratch build:

https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/taskinfo?taskID=10184305

Comment 2 Deepak Bhole 2016-02-02 20:41:17 UTC
Patrick available + fixed in Fedora. Acking.

Comment 9 Michael Petlan 2016-06-23 16:06:39 UTC
Reproduced with libffi-3.0.13-16.el7.aarch64
VERIFIED with libffi-3.0.13-18.el7.aarch64

Comment 10 Yaakov Selkowitz 2016-10-16 16:00:08 UTC
*** Bug 1385363 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 05:04:46 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2385.html