Please fix the buggy rwlock!

Posted May 29, 2025 10:50 UTC (Thu) by PengZheng (subscriber, #108006)
In reply to: Please fix the buggy rwlock! by ballombe
Parent article: Glibc project revisits infrastructure security

This issue is relatively trivial to reproduce and the impact is HUGE: billions of embedded multimedia devices might be affected.

"Fortunately", there is an easy way out: revert to the good old implementation by Ulrich Drepper.
I have done that 5-6 times in the past year for glibc toolchains from various SOC vendors.

To be honest, I really missed Ulrich Drepper.