[Valgrind-developers] Created VALGRIND_3_25_BRANCH

[Mark W. <ma...@kl...>]

Hi developers and packagers,

I created a VALGRIND_3_25_BRANCH where I hope to put commits
which I think distros should pick up. The idea would be to first
commit to the main branch. Then git cherry-pick -x the commit to the
branch (updating NEWS to list all bugs fixed on the branch).

The patches I put on the VALGRIND_3_25_BRANCH are to fix the
close_range syscall, a fixlet for the mount syscall type param and a
workaround for missing riscv_hwprobe syscall support.

I saw multiple reports about users having issues with the close_range
syscall being broken. So it might be good to do a 3.25.1 release from
the branch. I hope distros will pick up these fixes, I have already
added them to the Fedora package. But having an explicit release might
trigger more distros to update. Lets discuss next week if others feel
it is urgent enough.

Please let me know if you find other fixes on trunk you believe really
should be backported to the 3.25 branch/3.25.1 release.

Thanks,

Mark

  Set version to 3.25.1.GIT
  Prepare NEWS for branch 3.25 fixes
  FreeBSD close_range syscall
  Bug 503641 - close_range syscalls started failing with 3.25.0
  mount syscall param filesystemtype may be NULL
  Add workaround for missing riscv_hwprobe syscall (258)