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

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

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

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