Hi,
On 08/17/2016 09:51 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
Op 17 aug. 2016, om 16:39 heeft Leif Lindholm leif.lindholm@linaro.org het volgende geschreven:
Hi all,
(Sent to cross-distro with debian-arm on cc.)
We have an 'interesting' situation ahead of us, or indeed some of us have already fallen into it:
(trimming)
The applications we know are affected are luajit and mozjs (libv8 is not a problem). But this has a follow-on cost: both of these are used by other packages. Other jit/runtime packages could have their own issues.
The mozjs bug is fixed on trunk, and will hopefully make it into release 49[2], but it remains to be seen if that's too late for some distributions.
Since mozjs is “special” when it comes to API, you have to depend on a specific version of it, so policykit hard-depends on mozjs17, which has no fixes available for the VA problem :( I’ve seen reports of systems unable to boot because of the systemd->polkit->mozjs chain. Is anyone working on fixing that?
Special, might be an understatement.
But for polkit, I've posted patches pulling it forward to mozjs24 (needs testing!)
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/polkit-devel/2016-August/000487.html
With mozjs24 the mainline fix applies fairly cleanly without breaking the ABI.