RHBA-2021:3525 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated devtoolset-10-binutils packages are now available as a part of Red Hat Developer Toolset for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Description

Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating, modifying, and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for the contents of an archive), readelf (for displaying detailed information about binary files), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting addresses to file and line). The devtoolset-10-binutils packages provide the Red Hat Developer Toolset 10 version of binutils.

Bug Fix:

• Earlier, the Binutils linker provided by Red Hat Developer Toolset 10 started to support a new kernel feature called "secondary relocs". However, the performance of the linker significantly decreased. With this update, the linker can bypass the secondary reloc support code if input files do not use this code. As a result, the Binutils linker performs normally when input files do not use secondary relocs. (BZ#1981885)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 for RHEL 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1981885 - Major performance differences when compiling/assembling certain code from toolset6 vs. toolset10 using binutils [dts-10.1.z]

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26406