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Bug 2149994 - glibc: Earlier removal of alternative multilibs
Summary: glibc: Earlier removal of alternative multilibs
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: glibc
Version: 9.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
QA Contact: Sergey Kolosov
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-12-01 14:37 UTC by Florian Weimer
Modified: 2023-05-09 10:19 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: glibc-2.34-57.el9
Doc Type: No Doc Update
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Last Closed: 2023-05-09 08:16:03 UTC
Type: Bug
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 1983643 0 unspecified CLOSED glibc: Remove glibc-hwcaps multilibs on updates [rhel-9] 2023-07-18 14:29:19 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla 2119304 0 unspecified CLOSED glibc: Upgrading to glibc-2.28-209.el8.x86_64 causes segfaults during concurrent process launch 2023-09-09 08:34:10 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-141045 0 None None None 2022-12-01 14:46:08 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2023:2481 0 None None None 2023-05-09 08:16:21 UTC

Description Florian Weimer 2022-12-01 14:37:29 UTC
We currently remove the multilibs in %post, but we could do this earlier, in %pre. This is related to bug 2119304.

With the removal in %post, we have this issue: /lib64/glibc-hwcaps comes before /lib64/ld*, so RPM upgrades to the new version of libc.so.6 before ld.so. This means there is a window during the upgrade where new processes run with new libc.so.6 and old ld.so.

Without multilibs, /lib64/ld* comes before /lib64/lib*, and the possible race/version mismatch involves an old libc.so.6 with a new ld.so. Empirically, it is easier to evolve the GLIBC_PRIVATE ABI to better support this mismatch, so we should align the multilib case to this. This improves the upgrade experience at the expense of the downgrade experiences (but of course updates are more common because there has to be an upgrade before there can be a downgrade).

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-09 08:16:03 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 (glibc bug fix and enhancement update), 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:2481


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