binutils: Bug 23465 - wrongly scale non-8-bit x86 displacements

[Damjan Marion]

Due to following bug in binutils - gnu assembler
compiled code optimised for AVX512 will not work correctly.

binutils: Bug 23465 - wrongly scale non-8-bit x86 displacements

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23465

it is fixed in binutils 2.31 but bug exist in 2.30 which is release
used in xenial. Please consider backporting this bugfix to xenial.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

xenial is using 2.26.

[Damjan Marion (dmarion)]

> On Apr 2, 2019, at 6:54 AM, Matthias Klose <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> xenial is using 2.26.

Sorry, wanted to say bionic.
>
> ** Also affects: binutils (Ubuntu Cosmic)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Also affects: binutils (Ubuntu Bionic)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Changed in: binutils (Ubuntu Cosmic)
> Status: New => Fix Released
>
> ** Changed in: binutils (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Fix Released
>
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> Title:
> binutils: Bug 23465 - wrongly scale non-8-bit x86 displacements
>
> Status in binutils package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in binutils source package in Bionic:
> New
> Status in binutils source package in Cosmic:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Due to following bug in binutils - gnu assembler
> compiled code optimised for AVX512 will not work correctly.
>
> binutils: Bug 23465 - wrongly scale non-8-bit x86 displacements
>
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23465
>
> it is fixed in binutils 2.31 but bug exist in 2.30 which is release
> used in xenial. Please consider backporting this bugfix to xenial.
>
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[Damjan Marion (dmarion)]

Any updates on this one. It will be really helpful to have this bugfix backported to bionic binutils?