Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] binutils: Upgrade to 2.46 release

[Deepesh Varatharajan <deepesh.varatharajan@windriver.com>]

On 13-02-2026 21:03, Joao Marcos Costa wrote:
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> Hello,
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> On 2/13/26 15:39, Mathieu Dubois-Briand via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
>> On Thu Feb 12, 2026 at 3:29 PM CET, Deepesh via 
>> lists.openembedded.org Varatharajan wrote:
>>> From: Deepesh Varatharajan <Deepesh.Varatharajan@windriver.com>
>>>
>>> New Features:
>>> Support for new instructions added to AMD, ARM and RISC-V 
>>> architectures.
>>> Support for version 3 of the SFrame standard.
>>> The readelf program can now display the contents of Global Offset 
>>> Tables.
>>> Improved linker tagging support.
>>>
>>> Detailed release notes are here [1]
>>>
>>> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2026-02/msg00006.html
>>>
>>> Dropped patches:
>>> 0001-aarch64-constify-BTI-and-GCS-report-functions.patch
>>> Since the fix is already included in binutils 2.46.
>>>
>>> CVE patches: CVE-2025-11081,CVE-2025-11082,CVE-2025-11083,
>>> CVE-2025-11839,CVE-2025-11840,CVE-2025-11412,CVE-2025-11413,
>>> CVE-2025-11414,CVE-2025-11494,CVE-2025-11495.
>>> These were dropped because they are already addressed in binutils 2.46.
>>>
>>> Drop CVE_STATUS:
>>> binutils 2.46 has needed fixes for CVE-2025-7545 and CVE-2025-7546.
>>>
>>> Rebase existing patches with binutils 2.46.
>>>
>>> Testing Results:
>>> +----------------------+--------+--------+------+
>>> | Result               | 2.45.1 |  2.46  | Diff |
>>> +----------------------+--------+--------+------+
>>> | Expected Passes      | 318    |  331   | +13  |
>>> | Untested Testcases   | 5      |  5     |  0   |
>>> | Unsupported Tests    | 8      |  6     | -2   |
>>> +----------------------+--------+--------+------+
>>>
>>> Testcases changes:
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>>
>>> Testcase-name 2.45.1        2.46
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>>
>>> nm --ifunc-chars=-- (global ifunc) -           PASS
>>> nm --ifunc-chars=-- (local ifunc) -           PASS
>>> copy with unknown section flag -           PASS
>>> objcopy tek2bin -           PASS
>>> binary symbol (implicit) -           PASS
>>> binary symbol (explicit) -           PASS
>>> readelf SFrame V2 (x86-64/test-v2-ET_EXEC.sframe) -           PASS
>>> objdump SFrame V2 (x86-64/test-v2-ET_EXEC.sframe) -           PASS
>>> readelf SFrame V2 (x86-64/test-v2-ET_REL.sframe) -           PASS
>>> objdump SFrame V2 (x86-64/test-v2-ET_REL.sframe) -           PASS
>>> run objcopy of executable UNSUPPORTED    PASS
>>> run stripped executable UNSUPPORTED    PASS
>>> run stripped executable with saving a symbol UNSUPPORTED    PASS
>>> Copy object attributes v2 data from an object to another -        
>>> UNSUPPORTED
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Deepesh Varatharajan 
>>> <Deepesh.Varatharajan@windriver.com>
>>> ---
>>
>> Hi Deepesh,
>>
>> Thanks for the upgrade.
>>
>> It looks like some patch needs to be refreshed or dropped. It's only
>> applied for class-nativesdk, so that's probably why it does not show in
>> most builds.
>>
>> ERROR: Task 
>> (virtual:nativesdk:/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/genericx86-64/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils_2.46.bb:do_patch) 
>> failed with exit code '1'
>> ...
>> ERROR: nativesdk-binutils-2.46-r0 do_patch: Applying patch 
>> '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/genericx86-64/build/layers/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/0003-binutils-nativesdk-Search-for-alternative-ld.so.conf.patch' 
>> on target directory 
>> '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/genericx86-64/build/build/tmp/work/x86_64-nativesdk-pokysdk-linux/nativesdk-binutils/2.46/sources/binutils-2.46'
>>
>> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/4/builds/3189
Hi All,

We looked into this issue and fixed it.
>>
>> Can you have a look at it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mathieu
>>
>
>
> Just in case, there's also a ptest failure that could be related to this
> update:
>
> Failed ptests:
> {'elfutils':
> ['run-strip-strmerge.sh',
> 'run-elflint-self.sh',
> 'run-reverse-sections-self.sh']}
>
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/61/builds/3036/steps/13/logs/stdio 
>

We have been able to reproduce this issue. It is related to three 
elfutils ptest failures. These test cases were previously
failing with LLD linker and were marked as XFAIL. However, after 
upgrading to binutils 2.46, the same failures are now
occurring with GNU ld as well.

The issue appears to be specific to the arm64 architecture. We are 
currently investigating the root cause and will
provide further updates once we have more information.


Regards,
Deepesh
>
>
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> Best regards,
> João Marcos Costa