Bug#900739: crashing in toke.c, keyword plugin pointer is left pointing to an XS module that's been unloaded

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 01:19:13PM +1000, Tony Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 09:31:06PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > Thanks for the detailed analysis both! Given that the fix is accidental,
> > and not in a released version of perl yet, I'm not sure whether this
> > belongs in a stable update. That said, maybe there is no more correct
> > place for a fix for this issue to live?
> 
> 5.26.2 has the fix as v5.26.1-61-g1e4ebce09b
> 
> maint-5.24 received only a very small set of changed outside of
> Module::CoreList changes and the security fixes for the last release.

Ah, great, I missed that it had already been applied in 5.26.
We (Debian) could consider applying it to our 5.24 if we think it's
a valid fix. The patch appears to apply cleanly.

Cheers,
Dominic.