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

[Joao Marcos Costa <joaomarcos.costa@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

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
> 
> 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


-- 
Best regards,
João Marcos Costa