This patch is from the upstream release/2.20/master branch, which is a backport containing only the syscalls.list changes in commit 016495b8 in master. commit adba20cf74bc6ea3910afe57d40ed755c92c2ddb Author: Stefan Liebler Date: Thu Mar 3 08:24:18 2016 +0100 S390: Do not use direct socket syscalls if build on kernels >= 4.3. [BZ #19682] Beginning with Linux 4.3, the kernel headers contain direct system call numbers __NR_socket etc. on s390x. On older kernels, the socket-multiplexer syscall __NR_socketcall was used. To enable these new syscalls, the patch "S390: Call direct system calls for socket operations." (https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=016495b818cb61df7d0d10e6db54074271b3e3a5) was applied upstream. If glibc 2.23 is configured with --enable-kernel=4.3 and newer, the direct socket syscalls are used. For older kernels, the socket-multiplexer syscall is used instead. In glibc 2.22 and earlier, this patch is not applied. If you build glibc on a kernel < 4.3, the socket-multiplexer syscall is used. But if you build glibc on kernel >= 4.3, the direct socket-syscalls are used. If you install this glibc on a kernel < 4.3, all socket operations will fail. See "Bug 19682 - s390x: Incorrect syscall definitions cause breakage with Linux 4.3 headers" (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19682) The configure switch --enable-kernel does not influence this behaviour on older glibc-releases. The solution is to remove the direct socket-syscalls in sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/syscalls.list (this patch) on older glibc-releases as it was done by the upstream patch, too. These entries were never used on s390x, but the c-files in sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/. After this removal, the behaviour of the socket functions are not changed compared to the original glibc release version and the socket-multiplexer-syscall is always used. Index: b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/syscalls.list =================================================================== --- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/syscalls.list +++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/syscalls.list @@ -14,22 +14,3 @@ shmget - shmget i:iii __shmget shmget semop - semop i:ipi __semop semop semget - semget i:iii __semget semget semctl - semctl i:iiii __semctl semctl - -# proper socket implementations: -accept - accept Ci:iBN __libc_accept __accept accept -bind - bind i:ipi __bind bind -connect - connect Ci:ipi __libc_connect __connect connect -getpeername - getpeername i:ipp __getpeername getpeername -getsockname - getsockname i:ipp __getsockname getsockname -getsockopt - getsockopt i:iiiBN __getsockopt getsockopt -listen - listen i:ii __listen listen -recv - recv Ci:ibni __libc_recv __recv recv -recvfrom - recvfrom Ci:ibniBN __libc_recvfrom __recvfrom recvfrom -recvmsg - recvmsg Ci:ipi __libc_recvmsg __recvmsg recvmsg -send - send Ci:ibni __libc_send __send send -sendmsg - sendmsg Ci:ipi __libc_sendmsg __sendmsg sendmsg -sendto - sendto Ci:ibnibn __libc_sendto __sendto sendto -setsockopt - setsockopt i:iiibn __setsockopt setsockopt -shutdown - shutdown i:ii __shutdown shutdown -socket - socket i:iii __socket socket -socketpair - socketpair i:iiif __socketpair socketpair