generating a coredump as the result of a signal.
- Fix a bug where we could leak a Giant lock if vn_start_write() failed
in coredump().
Reported by: jmg (2)
currently present is minor and offers no real semantic issues, it also
doesn't make sense since an earlier lockless check has already
occurred. Also hold the mutex longer, over a manipulation of
per-process ktrace state, which requires synchronization.
MFC after: 1 month
Pointed out by: jhb
reliability when tracing fast-moving processes or writing traces to
slow file systems by avoiding unbounded queueuing and dropped records.
Record loss was previously possible when the global pool of records
become depleted as a result of record generation outstripping record
commit, which occurred quickly in many common situations.
These changes partially restore the 4.x model of committing ktrace
records at the point of trace generation (synchronous), but maintain
the 5.x deferred record commit behavior (asynchronous) for situations
where entering VFS and sleeping is not possible (i.e., in the
scheduler). Records are now queued per-process as opposed to
globally, with processes responsible for committing records from their
own context as required.
- Eliminate the ktrace worker thread and global record queue, as they
are no longer used. Keep the global free record list, as records
are still used.
- Add a per-process record queue, which will hold any asynchronously
generated records, such as from context switches. This replaces the
global queue as the place to submit asynchronous records to.
- When a record is committed asynchronously, simply queue it to the
process.
- When a record is committed synchronously, first drain any pending
per-process records in order to maintain ordering as best we can.
Currently ordering between competing threads is provided via a global
ktrace_sx, but a per-process flag or lock may be desirable in the
future.
- When a process returns to user space following a system call, trap,
signal delivery, etc, flush any pending records.
- When a process exits, flush any pending records.
- Assert on process tear-down that there are no pending records.
- Slightly abstract the notion of being "in ktrace", which is used to
prevent the recursive generation of records, as well as generating
traces for ktrace events.
Future work here might look at changing the set of events marked for
synchronous and asynchronous record generation, re-balancing queue
depth, timeliness of commit to disk, and so on. I.e., performing a
drain every (n) records.
MFC after: 1 month
Discussed with: jhb
Requested by: Marc Olzheim <marcolz at stack dot nl>
ktr_tid as part of gathering of ktr header data for new ktrace
records. The continued use of intptr_t is required for file layout
reasons, and cannot be changed to lwpid_t at this point.
MFC after: 1 month
Reviewed by: davidxu
intptr_t. The buffer length needs to be written to disk as part
of the trace log, but the kernel pointer for the buffer does not.
Add a new ktr_buffer pointer to the kernel-only ktrace request
structure to hold that pointer. This frees up an integer in the
ktrace record format that can be used to hold the threadid,
although older ktrace files will have a garbage ktr_buffer field
(or more accurately, a kernel pointer value).
MFC after: 2 weeks
Space requested by: davidxu
security.bsd.see_other_uids is set to 0, etc.
One can check if invisible process is active, by doing:
# ktrace -p <pid>
If ktrace returns 'Operation not permitted' the process is alive and
if returns 'No such process' there is no such process.
MFC after: 1 week
somewhat clearer, but more importantly allows for a consistent naming
scheme for suser_cred flags.
The old name is still defined, but will be removed in a few days (unless I
hear any complaints...)
Discussed with: rwatson, scottl
Requested by: jhb
Add copyiniov() which copies a struct iovec array in from userland into
a malloc'ed struct iovec. Caller frees.
Change uiofromiov() to malloc the uio (caller frees) and name it
copyinuio() which is more appropriate.
Add cloneuio() which returns a malloc'ed copy. Caller frees.
Use them throughout.
Presumably, at some point, you had to include jail.h if you included
proc.h, but that is no longer required.
Result of: self injury involving adding something to struct prison
ktr_resize_pool(); this eliminates a potential livelock.
Return ENOSPC only if we encountered an out-of-memory condition when
trying to increase the pool size.
Reviewed by: jhb, bde (style)
semaphore and doing so can lead to a possible reversal. WITNESS would have
caught this if semaphores were used more often in the kernel.
Submitted by: Ted Unangst <tedu@stanford.edu>, Dawson Engler
curthread. Unlike td_flags, this field does not need any locking.
- Replace the td_inktr and td_inktrace variables with equivalent private
thread flags.
- Move TDF_OLDMASK over to the private flags field so it no longer requires
sched_lock.
- Mark the ktrace() and utrace() syscalls as being MP safe.
- Validate the facs argument to ktrace() prior to doing any vnode
operations or acquiring any locks.
- Share lock the proctree lock over the entire section that calls
ktrsetchildren() and ktrops(). We already did this for process groups.
Doing it for the process case closes a small race where a process might
go away after we look it up. As a result of this, ktrstchildren() now
just asserts that the proctree lock is locked rather than acquiring the
lock itself.
- Add some missing comments to #else and #endif.
KTRFAC_DROP to track instances when ktrace events are dropped due to the
request pool being exhausted. When a thread tries to post a ktrace event
and is unable to due to no available ktrace request objects, it sets
KTRFAC_DROP in its process' p_traceflag field. The next trace event to
successfully post from that process will set the KTR_DROP flag in the
header of the request going out and clear KTRFAC_DROP.
The KTR_DROP flag is the high bit in the type field of the ktr_header
structure. Older kdump binaries will simply complain about an unknown type
when seeing an entry with KTR_DROP set. Note that KTR_DROP being set on a
record in a ktrace file does not tell you anything except that at least one
event from this process was dropped prior to this event. The user has no
way of knowing what types of events were dropped nor how many were dropped.
Requested by: phk
struct proc as p_tracecred alongside the current cache of the vnode in
p_tracep. This credential is then used for all later ktrace operations on
this file rather than using the credential of the current thread at the
time of each ktrace event.
- Now that we have multiple ktrace-related items in struct proc that are
pointers, rename p_tracep to p_tracevp to make it less ambiguous.
Requested by: rwatson (1)
doesn't give them enough stack to do much before blowing away the pcb.
This adds MI and MD code to allow the allocation of an alternate kstack
who's size can be speficied when calling kthread_create. Passing the
value 0 prevents the alternate kstack from being created. Note that the
ia64 MD code is missing for now, and PowerPC was only partially written
due to the pmap.c being incomplete there.
Though this patch does not modify anything to make use of the alternate
kstack, acpi and usb are good candidates.
Reviewed by: jake, peter, jhb
request structure.
- Re-optimize the case of utrace being disabled by doing an explicit
KTRPOINT check instead of relying on the one in ktr_getrequest() so that
we don't waste time on a malloc in the non-tracing case.
- Change utrace() to return an error if the copyin() fails. Before it
would just ignore the request but still return success. This last is
a change in behavior and can be backed out if necessary.
transfer to a malloc'd buffer and use that bufer for the ktrace event.
This means that genio ktrace events no longer need to be synchronous.
- Now that ktr_buffer isn't overloaded to sometimes point to a cached uio
pointer for genio requests and always points to a malloc'd buffer if not
NULL, free the buffer in ktr_freerequest() instead of in
ktr_writerequest(). This closes a memory leak for ktrace events that
used a malloc'd buffer that had their vnode ripped out from under them
while they were on the todo list.
Suggested by: bde (1, in principle)
- Rename kern.ktrace_request_pool tunable/sysctl to
kern.ktrace.request_pool.
- Add a variable to control the max amount of data to log for genio events.
This variable is tunable via the tunable/sysctl kern.ktrace.genio_size
and defaults to one page.
for mac_check_vnode_{poll,read,stat,write}(). Pass in fp->f_cred
when calling these checks with a struct file available. Otherwise,
pass NOCRED. All currently MAC policies use active_cred, but
could now offer the cached credential semantic used for the base
system security model.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
mac_check_vnode_poll(), mac_check_vnode_read(), mac_check_vnode_write().
This improves the consistency with other existing vnode checks, and
allows policies to avoid implementing switch statements to determine
what operations they do and do not want to authorize.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
other references to that vnode as a trace vnode in other processes as well
as in any pending requests on the todo list. Thus, it is possible for a
ktrace request structure to have a NULL ktr_vp when it is destroyed in
ktr_freerequest(). We shouldn't call vrele() on the vnode in that case.
Reported by: bde
kernel access control.
Instrument the ktrace write operation so that it invokes the MAC
framework's vnode write authorization check.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
operations to dump a ktrace event out to an output file are now handled
asychronously by a ktrace worker thread. This enables most ktrace events
to not need Giant once p_tracep and p_traceflag are suitably protected by
the new ktrace_lock.
There is a single todo list of pending ktrace requests. The various
ktrace tracepoints allocate a ktrace request object and tack it onto the
end of the queue. The ktrace kernel thread grabs requests off the head of
the queue and processes them using the trace vnode and credentials of the
thread triggering the event.
Since we cannot assume that the user memory referenced when doing a
ktrgenio() will be valid and since we can't access it from the ktrace
worker thread without a bit of hassle anyways, ktrgenio() requests are
still handled synchronously. However, in order to ensure that the requests
from a given thread still maintain relative order to one another, when a
synchronous ktrace event (such as a genio event) is triggered, we still put
the request object on the todo list to synchronize with the worker thread.
The original thread blocks atomically with putting the item on the queue.
When the worker thread comes across an asynchronous request, it wakes up
the original thread and then blocks to ensure it doesn't manage to write a
later event before the original thread has a chance to write out the
synchronous event. When the original thread wakes up, it writes out the
synchronous using its own context and then finally wakes the worker thread
back up. Yuck. The sychronous events aren't pretty but they do work.
Since ktrace events can be triggered in fairly low-level areas (msleep()
and cv_wait() for example) the ktrace code is designed to use very few
locks when posting an event (currently just the ktrace_mtx lock and the
vnode interlock to bump the refcoun on the trace vnode). This also means
that we can't allocate a ktrace request object when an event is triggered.
Instead, ktrace request objects are allocated from a pre-allocated pool
and returned to the pool after a request is serviced.
The size of this pool defaults to 100 objects, which is about 13k on an
i386 kernel. The size of the pool can be adjusted at compile time via the
KTRACE_REQUEST_POOL kernel option, at boot time via the
kern.ktrace_request_pool loader tunable, or at runtime via the
kern.ktrace_request_pool sysctl.
If the pool of request objects is exhausted, then a warning message is
printed to the console. The message is rate-limited in that it is only
printed once until the size of the pool is adjusted via the sysctl.
I have tested all kernel traces but have not tested user traces submitted
by utrace(2), though they should work fine in theory.
Since a ktrace request has several properties (content of event, trace
vnode, details of originating process, credentials for I/O, etc.), I chose
to drop the first argument to the various ktrfoo() functions. Currently
the functions just assume the event is posted from curthread. If there is
a great desire to do so, I suppose I could instead put back the first
argument but this time make it a thread pointer instead of a vnode pointer.
Also, KTRPOINT() now takes a thread as its first argument instead of a
process. This is because the check for a recursive ktrace event is now
per-thread instead of process-wide.
Tested on: i386
Compiles on: sparc64, alpha
pointer instead of a proc pointer and require the process pointed to
by the second argument to be locked. We now use the thread ucred reference
for the credential checks in p_can*() as a result. p_canfoo() should now
no longer need Giant.
general cleanup of the API. The entire API now consists of two functions
similar to the pre-KSE API. The suser() function takes a thread pointer
as its only argument. The td_ucred member of this thread must be valid
so the only valid thread pointers are curthread and a few kernel threads
such as thread0. The suser_cred() function takes a pointer to a struct
ucred as its first argument and an integer flag as its second argument.
The flag is currently only used for the PRISON_ROOT flag.
Discussed on: smp@
kern/kern_descrip.c:
Aquire Giant in fdrop_locked when file refcount hits zero, this removes
the requirement for the caller to own Giant for the most part.
kern/kern_ktrace.c:
Aquire Giant in ktrgenio, simplifies locking in upper read/write syscalls.
kern/vfs_bio.c:
Aquire Giant in bwillwrite if needed.
kern/sys_generic.c
Giant pushdown, remove Giant for:
read, pread, write and pwrite.
readv and writev aren't done yet because of the possible malloc calls
for iov to uio processing.
kern/sys_socket.c
Grab giant in the socket fo_read/write functions.
kern/vfs_vnops.c
Grab giant in the vnode fo_read/write functions.
