As I like to forget: static kenv var formatting is actually such that an
empty environment would be double null bytes. We should make sure that a
non-zero buffer has at least enough for this, though most of the current
usage is with a 4k buffer.
Garbage in the passed-in buffer can cause problems if any attempts to read
the kenv are inadvertently made between init_static_kenv and the first
kern_setenv -- assuming there is one.
This is cheap and easy, so do it. This also helps rule out some class of
bugs as one tries to debug; tunables fetch from the static environment up
until SI_SUB_KMEM + 1, and many of these buffers are global ~4k buffers that
rely on BSS clearing while others just grab a page of free memory and use it
(e.g. xen).
are terminated by 2 NULs, but only 1 NUL was zapped. Zapping only 1
NUL just splits the first string into an empty string and a corrupted
string. All other strings in static hints and env remained live early
in the boot when they were supposed to be disabled.
Support calling init_static_kenv() very early in the boot, so as to
use the env very early in the boot. Then the pointer to the loader
env may change after the first call due to enabling paging or otherwise
remapping the pointer. Another call is needed to register the change.
Don't use the previous pointer in this (or any) later call.
Reviewed by: kib
Both to formally document the requirement that this not be called after the
dynamic kenv is setup, and to perhaps help static analyzers figure out
what's going on. While calling init_static_kenv this late isn't fatal, there
are some caveats that the caller should be aware of:
- Late calls are effectively a no-op, as far as default FreeBSD is
concerned, as everything will switch to searching the dynamic kenv once it's
available.
- Each of the kern_getenv calls will leak memory, as it's assumed that
these are searching static environment and allocations will not be made.
As such, this usage is not sensible and should be detected.
This variable has been given the name "loader_env.disabled" as it's the
primary way most people will have an MD environment. This restores the
previously-default behavior of ignoring the loader(8) environment, which may
be useful for vendor distributions or other scenarios where inheriting the
loader environment may be considered a security issue or potentially
breaking of a more locked-down environment.
As the change to config(5) indicates, disabling the loader environment
should not be a choice made lightly since it may provide ACPI hints and
other useful things that the system can rely on to boot.
An UPDATING entry has been added to mention an upgrade path for those that
may have relied on the previous behavior.
Discussed with: bde
Relnotes: yes (maybe)
The dynamic environment was being initialized at SI_SUB_KMEM, SI_ORDER_ANY.
I added the hint-merging at SI_SUB_KMEM, SI_ORDER_ANY as well in r335998 -
this can only work by coincidence.
Re-do both to operate at SI_SUB_KMEM + 1, SI_ORDER_FIRST and SI_ORDER_SECOND
respectively to be safe. It's sufficiently obfuscated away as to when in
SU_SUB_KMEM malloc will be available, and the dynamic environment cannot be
relied upon there anyways since it's initialized at SI_ORDER_ANY.
Reported by: bde
Discussed with: bde
X-MFC-With: r335998
At the moment, hintmode and envmode are used to indicate whether static
hints or static env have been provided in the kernel config(5) and the
static versions are mutually exclusive with loader(8)-provided environment.
hintmode *can* be reconfigured later to pull from the dynamic environment,
thus taking advantage of the loader(8) or post-kmem environment setting.
This changeset fixes both problems at once to move us from a semi-confusing
state to a consistent state: if an environment file, hints file, or
loader(8) environment are provided, we use them in a well-known order of
precedence:
- loader(8) environment
- static environment
- static hints file
Once the dynamic environment is setup this becomes a moot point. The
loader(8) and static environments are merged (respecting the above order of
precedence), and the static hints are merged in on an as-needed basis after
the dynamic environment has been setup.
Hints lookup are changed to respect all of the above. Before the dynamic
environment is setup, lookups use the above-mentioned order and fallback to
the next environment if a matching hint is not found. Once the dynamic
environment is setup, that is used on its own since it captures all of the
above information plus any dynamic kenv settings that came up later in boot.
The following tangentially related changes were made to res_find:
- A hintp cookie is now passed in so that related searches continue using
the chain of environments (or dynamic environment) without relying on
global state
- All three environments will be searched if they actually have valid hints
to use, rather than just choosing the first environment that actually had
a hint and rolling with that only
The hintmode sysctl has been ripped out. static_{env,hints}.disabled are
still honored and will disable their respective environments from being used
for hint lookups and from being merged into the dynamic environment, as
expected.
MFC after: 1 month (maybe)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15953
At the moment, hintmode and envmode are used to indicate whether static
hints or static env have been provided in the kernel config(5) and the
static versions are mutually exclusive with loader(8)-provided environment.
hintmode *can* be reconfigured later to pull from the dynamic environment,
thus taking advantage of the loader(8) or post-kmem environment setting.
This changeset fixes both problems at once to move us from a semi-confusing
state to a consistent state: if an environment file, hints file, or
loader(8) environment are provided, we use them in a well-known order of
precedence:
- loader(8) environment
- static environment
- static hints file
Once the dynamic environment is setup this becomes a moot point. The
loader(8) and static environments are merged (respecting the above order of
precedence), and the static hints are merged in on an as-needed basis after
the dynamic environment has been setup.
Hints lookup are changed to respect all of the above. Before the dynamic
environment is setup, lookups use the above-mentioned order and fallback to
the next environment if a matching hint is not found. Once the dynamic
environment is setup, that is used on its own since it captures all of the
above information plus any dynamic kenv settings that came up later in boot.
The following tangentially related changes were made to res_find:
- A hintp cookie is now passed in so that related searches continue using
the chain of environments (or dynamic environment) without relying on
global state
- All three environments will be searched if they actually have valid hints
to use, rather than just choosing the first environment that actually had
a hint and rolling with that only
The hintmode sysctl has been ripped out. static_{env,hints}.disabled are
still honored and will disable their respective environments from being used
for hint lookups and from being merged into the dynamic environment, as
expected.
MFC after: 1 month (maybe)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15953
Sometimes the values contain geli passphrases being communicated from
loader(8) to the kernel, and some day the compiler may decide to start
eliding calls to memset() for a pointer which is not dereferenced again
before being passed to free().
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
providing compiled-in static environment data that is used instead of any
data passed in from a boot loader.
Previously 'env' worked only on i386 and arm xscale systems, because it
required the MD startup code to examine the global envmode variable and
decide whether to use static_env or an environment obtained from the boot
loader, and set the global kern_envp accordingly. Most startup code wasn't
doing so. Making things even more complex, some mips startup code uses an
alternate scheme that involves calling init_static_kenv() to pass an empty
buffer and its size, then uses a series of kern_setenv() calls to populate
that buffer.
Now all MD startup code calls init_static_kenv(), and that routine provides
a single point where envmode is checked and the decision is made whether to
use the compiled-in static_kenv or the values provided by the MD code.
The routine also continues to serve its original purpose for mips; if a
non-zero buffer size is passed the routine installs the empty buffer ready
to accept kern_setenv() values. Now if the size is zero, the provided buffer
full of existing env data is installed. A NULL pointer can be passed if the
boot loader provides no env data; this allows the static env to be installed
if envmode is set to do so.
Most of the work here is a near-mechanical change to call the init function
instead of directly setting kern_envp. A notable exception is in xen/pv.c;
that code was originally installing a buffer full of preformatted env data
along with its non-zero size (like mips code does), which would have allowed
kern_setenv() calls to wipe out the preformatted data. Now it passes a zero
for the size so that the buffer of data it installs is treated as
non-writeable.
initial static environment to a dynamic one, zero the static environment
buffer, and zero individual values when kern_unsetenv and freeenv are
called.
Tested by: kmoore (VM memory dump + grep)
Tested by: cperciva (kernel panic dump + grep)
in userland rename in-kernel getenv()/setenv() to kern_setenv()/kern_getenv().
This fixes a namespace collision with libc symbols.
Submitted by: kmacy
Tested by: make universe
allocate memory and so not require sleepable environment. getenv() has
already used on-stack temporary storage, so just use it more rationally.
getenv_string() receives buffer as argument, so don't need another one.
In some cases, kern_envp is set by the architecture code and env_pos does
not contain the length of the static kernel environment. In these cases
r249408 causes the kernel to discard the environment.
Fix this by updating the check for empty static env to *kern_envp != '\0'
Reported by: np@
In case where there are no static kernel environment entries, the
function init_dynamic_kenv() adds an incorrect entry at position 0 of
the dynamic kernel environment. This in turn causes kenv(1) to print
and empty list even though there are dynamic entries added later.
Fix this by checking env_pos in init_dynamic_kenv() and adding dynamic
entries only if there are static entries.
patch modifies makesyscalls.sh to prefix all of the non-compatibility
calls (e.g. not linux_, freebsd32_) with sys_ and updates the kernel
entry points and all places in the code that use them. It also
fixes an additional name space collision between the kernel function
psignal and the libc function of the same name by renaming the kernel
psignal kern_psignal(). By introducing this change now we will ease future
MFCs that change syscalls.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: re (bz)
r198561 | thompsa | 2009-10-28 15:25:22 -0600 (Wed, 28 Oct 2009) | 4 lines
Allow a scratch buffer to be set in order to be able to use setenv() while
booting, before dynamic kenv is running. A few platforms implement their own
scratch+sprintf handling to save data from the boot environment.
and used in a large number of files, but also because an increasing number
of incorrect uses of MAC calls were sneaking in due to copy-and-paste of
MAC-aware code without the associated opt_mac.h include.
Discussed with: pjd
Limit the size of malloced buffer when dumping environment
variables. [EN-09:01]
Approved by: so (cperciva)
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Security: FreeBSD-SA-09:06.ktimer
Errata: FreeBSD-EN-09:01.kenv
from Mac OS X Leopard--rationalize naming for entry points to
the following general forms:
mac_<object>_<method/action>
mac_<object>_check_<method/action>
The previous naming scheme was inconsistent and mostly
reversed from the new scheme. Also, make object types more
consistent and remove spaces from object types that contain
multiple parts ("posix_sem" -> "posixsem") to make mechanical
parsing easier. Introduce a new "netinet" object type for
certain IPv4/IPv6-related methods. Also simplify, slightly,
some entry point names.
All MAC policy modules will need to be recompiled, and modules
not updates as part of this commit will need to be modified to
conform to the new KPI.
Sponsored by: SPARTA (original patches against Mac OS X)
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project, Apple Computer
- Remove also "MP SAFE" after prior "MPSAFE" pass. (suggested by bde)
- Remove extra blank lines in some cases.
- Add extra blank lines in some cases.
- Remove no-op comments consisting solely of the function name, the word
"syscall", or the system call name.
- Add punctuation.
- Re-wrap some comments.
specific privilege names to a broad range of privileges. These may
require some future tweaking.
Sponsored by: nCircle Network Security, Inc.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Discussed on: arch@
Reviewed (at least in part) by: mlaier, jmg, pjd, bde, ceri,
Alex Lyashkov <umka at sevcity dot net>,
Skip Ford <skip dot ford at verizon dot net>,
Antoine Brodin <antoine dot brodin at laposte dot net>
begun with a repo-copy of mac.h to mac_framework.h. sys/mac.h now
contains the userspace and user<->kernel API and definitions, with all
in-kernel interfaces moved to mac_framework.h, which is now included
across most of the kernel instead.
This change is the first step in a larger cleanup and sweep of MAC
Framework interfaces in the kernel, and will not be MFC'd.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: SPARTA
This has no security implications since only root is allowed to use
kenv(1) (and corrupt the kernel memory after adding too much variables
previous to this commit).
This is based upon the PR [1] mentioned below, but extended to check both
bounds (in case of an overflow of the counting variable) and to comply
to the style of the function. An overflow of the counting variable
shouldn't happen after adding the check for the upper bound, but better
safe than sorry (in case some other function in the kernel overwrites
random memory).
An interested soul may want to add a printf to notify root in case the
bounds are hit.
Also allocate KENV_SIZE+1 entries (the array is NULL-terminated), since
the comment for KENV_SIZE says it's the maximum number of environment
strings. [2]
PR: 83687 [1]
Submitted by: Harry Coin <harrycoin@qconline.com> [1]
Submitted by: Ariff Abdullah <skywizard@MyBSD.org.my> [2]
