This sysctl value had been provided as a read-only variable that is
compiled into the C library based on the value of _PATH_LOCALBASE in
paths.h.
After this change, the value is compiled into the kernel as an empty
string, which is translated to _PATH_LOCALBASE by the C library.
This empty string can be overridden at boot time or by a privileged
user at run time and will then be returned by sysctl.
When set to an empty string, the value returned by sysctl reverts to
_PATH_LOCALBASE.
This update does not change the behavior on any system that does
not modify the default value of user.localbase.
I consider this change as experimental and would prefer if the run-time
write permission was reconsidered and the sysctl variable defined with
CLFLAG_RDTUN instead to restrict it to be set at boot time.
MFC after: 1 month
The value is provided by the C library as for other sysctl variables in
the user tree. It is compiled in and returns the value of _PATH_LOCALBASE
defined in paths.h.
Reviewed by: imp, scottl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27009
- Change the type of hw.pagesizes to OPAQUE, since it returns an array.
- Modify the handler to only truncate the returned length if the caller
supplied an output buffer. This allows use of the trick of passing a
NULL output buffer to fetch the output size, while preserving
compatibility if MAXPAGESIZES is increased.
- Add a "S,pagesize" formatter to sysctl(8).
Reviewed by: alc, kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Sponsored by: Klara, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26239
For userland, MACHINE_ARCH reflects the current ABI via preprocessor
directives. For the kernel, the hw.machine_arch sysctl uses the ELF
header flags of the current process to select the correct MACHINE_ARCH
value.
Reviewed by: imp, kp
Sponsored by: DARPA
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24543
This extends some of the changes in place to support reporting support
for 32-bit ABIs to permit reporting hard-float vs soft-float ABIs.
Sponsored by: DARPA
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24542
Boot IDs are random, opaque 128-bit identifiers that distinguish distinct
system boots. A new ID is generated each time the system boots. Unlike
kern.boottime, the value is not modified by NTP adjustments. It remains fixed
until the machine is restarted.
PR: 244867
Reported by: Ricardo Fraile <rfraile AT rfraile.eu>
MFC after: I do not intend to, but feel free
r357614 added CTLFLAG_NEEDGIANT to make it easier to find nodes that are
still not MPSAFE (or already are but aren’t properly marked).
Use it in preparation for a general review of all nodes.
This is non-functional change that adds annotations to SYSCTL_NODE and
SYSCTL_PROC nodes using one of the soon-to-be-required flags.
Mark all obvious cases as MPSAFE. All entries that haven't been marked
as MPSAFE before are by default marked as NEEDGIANT
Approved by: kib (mentor, blanket)
Commented by: kib, gallatin, melifaro
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23718
knobs and indicators for code that mitigates functional and security issues
in the architecture/platform. Controls for regular operational policy should
still go into places security, hw, kern, etc.
The machdep root node is inherently architecture dependent, but mitigations
tend to be architecture dependent as well. Some cases like Spectre do cross
architectural boundaries, but the mitigation code for them tends to be
architecture dependent anyways, and multiple architectures won't be active
in the same image of the kernel.
Many mitigation knobs already exist in the system, and they will be moved
with compat naming in the future. Going forward, mitigations should collect
in machdep.mitigations.
Reviewed by: imp, brooks, rwatson, emaste, jhb
Sponsored by: Intel
After our migration (of certain architectures) to lld the kernel is built
with a unique build-ID. Make it available via a sysctl and uname(1) to
allow the user to identify their running kernel.
Submitted by: Ali Mashtizadeh <ali_mashtizadeh.com>
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: Yes
Event: Waterloo Hackathon 2019
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20326
read_random() is/was used, mostly without error checking, in a lot of
very sensitive places in the kernel -- including seeding the widely used
arc4random(9).
Most uses, especially arc4random(9), should block until the device is seeded
rather than proceeding with a bogus or empty seed. I did not spy any
obvious kernel consumers where blocking would be inappropriate (in the
sense that lack of entropy would be ok -- I did not investigate locking
angle thoroughly). In many instances, arc4random_buf(9) or that family
of APIs would be more appropriate anyway; that work was done in r345865.
A minor cleanup was made to the implementation of the READ_RANDOM function:
instead of using a variable-length array on the stack to temporarily store
all full random blocks sufficient to satisfy the requested 'len', only store
a single block on the stack. This has some benefit in terms of reducing
stack usage, reducing memcpy overhead and reducing devrandom output leakage
via the stack. Additionally, the stack block is now safely zeroed if it was
used.
One caveat of this change is that the kern.arandom sysctl no longer returns
zero bytes immediately if the random device is not seeded. This means that
FreeBSD-specific userspace applications which attempted to handle an
unseeded random device may be broken by this change. If such behavior is
needed, it can be replaced by the more portable getrandom(2) GRND_NONBLOCK
option.
On any typical FreeBSD system, entropy is persisted on read/write media and
used to seed the random device very early in boot, and blocking is never a
problem.
This change primarily impacts the behavior of /dev/random on embedded
systems with read-only media that do not configure "nodevice random". We
toggle the default from 'charge on blindly with no entropy' to 'block
indefinitely.' This default is safer, but may cause frustration. Embedded
system designers using FreeBSD have several options. The most obvious is to
plan to have a small writable NVRAM or NAND to persist entropy, like larger
systems. Early entropy can be fed from any loader, or by writing directly
to /dev/random during boot. Some embedded SoCs now provide a fast hardware
entropy source; this would also work for quickly seeding Fortuna. A 3rd
option would be creating an embedded-specific, more simplistic random
module, like that designed by DJB in [1] (this design still requires a small
rewritable media for forward secrecy). Finally, the least preferred option
might be "nodevice random", although I plan to remove this in a subsequent
revision.
To help developers emulate the behavior of these embedded systems on
ordinary workstations, the tunable kern.random.block_seeded_status was
added. When set to 1, it blocks the random device.
I attempted to document this change in random.4 and random.9 and ran into a
bunch of out-of-date or irrelevant or inaccurate content and ended up
rototilling those documents more than I intended to. Sorry. I think
they're in a better state now.
PR: 230875
Reviewed by: delphij, markm (earlier version)
Approved by: secteam(delphij), devrandom(markm)
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19744
In most cases kernel.bootfile is populated from the information
provided by loader(8). There are certain scenarios when loader
is not available, for instance when kernel is loaded by u-boot
or some other BootROM directly. In this case the default value
"/kernel" points to invalid location and breaks some functinality,
like using installkernel on self-hosted system or dtrace's CTF
lookup. This can be fixed by setting the value manually but the
default that reflects correct location is better than default that
points to invalid one.
Current default was set around FreeBSD 1, when "/kernel" was the
actual path. Transition to /boot/kernel/kernel happened circa FreeBSD 3.
PR: 221550
Reviewed by: ian, imp
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18902
r343532 noted the difference between "hw.realmem" and "hw.physmem", which I
was previously unaware of. I discovered that neither sysctl had a
description visible via `sysctl -d', so I found where they were defined and
added suitable descriptions. While in the file, I went ahead and added
descriptions for all the others which lacked them. I also updated sysctl.3
accordingly
Reviewed by: kib, bcr
MFC after: 1 weeks
Sponsored by: Panasas
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19007
If the memory size does not fit into u_long, current code truncates
the returned value and returns complete nonsense. Make the result
slightly more useful by clamping it at ULONG_MAX.
Reported and tested : pho
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
opt_compat.h is mentioned in nearly 180 files. In-progress network
driver compabibility improvements may add over 100 more so this is
closer to "just about everywhere" than "only some files" per the
guidance in sys/conf/options.
Keep COMPAT_LINUX32 in opt_compat.h as it is confined to a subset of
sys/compat/linux/*.c. A fake _COMPAT_LINUX option ensure opt_compat.h
is created on all architectures.
Move COMPAT_LINUXKPI to opt_dontuse.h as it is only used to control the
set of compiled files.
Reviewed by: kib, cem, jhb, jtl
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14941
significant source of cache line contention from vm_page_alloc(). Use
accessors and vm_page_unwire_noq() so that the mechanism can be easily
changed in the future.
Reviewed by: markj
Discussed with: kib, glebius
Tested by: pho (earlier version)
Sponsored by: Netflix, Dell/EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14273
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
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.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
all the clocks that they provide.
Each clocks are exported under the node 'clock.<clkname>' and have the following
children nodes :
- frequency
- parent (The selected parent, if any)
- parents (The list of parents, if any)
- childrens (The list of childrens, if any)
- enable_cnt (The enabled counter)
This give us the possibility to examine clocks at runtime and make graph of
the clock flow.
Reviewed by: mmel
MFC after: 2 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9833
certain kernel structures for use by debuggers. This mostly aids
in examining cores from a kernel without debug symbols as a debugger
can infer these values if debug symbols are available.
One set of variables describes the layout of 'struct linker_file' to
walk the list of loaded kernel modules.
A second set of variables describes the layout of 'struct proc' and
'struct thread' to walk the list of processes in the kernel and the
threads in each process.
The 'pcb_size' variable is used to index into the stoppcbs[] array.
The 'vm_maxuser_address' is used to distinguish kernel virtual addresses
from user addresses. This doesn't have to be perfect, and
'vm_maxuser_address' is a cheap and simple way to differentiate kernel
pointers from simple values like TIDs and PIDs.
While here, annotate the fields in struct pcb used by kgdb on amd64
and i386 to note that their ABI should be preserved. Annotations for
other platforms will be added in the future.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3773
* GENERAL
- Update copyright.
- Make kernel options for RANDOM_YARROW and RANDOM_DUMMY. Set
neither to ON, which means we want Fortuna
- If there is no 'device random' in the kernel, there will be NO
random(4) device in the kernel, and the KERN_ARND sysctl will
return nothing. With RANDOM_DUMMY there will be a random(4) that
always blocks.
- Repair kern.arandom (KERN_ARND sysctl). The old version went
through arc4random(9) and was a bit weird.
- Adjust arc4random stirring a bit - the existing code looks a little
suspect.
- Fix the nasty pre- and post-read overloading by providing explictit
functions to do these tasks.
- Redo read_random(9) so as to duplicate random(4)'s read internals.
This makes it a first-class citizen rather than a hack.
- Move stuff out of locked regions when it does not need to be
there.
- Trim RANDOM_DEBUG printfs. Some are excess to requirement, some
behind boot verbose.
- Use SYSINIT to sequence the startup.
- Fix init/deinit sysctl stuff.
- Make relevant sysctls also tunables.
- Add different harvesting "styles" to allow for different requirements
(direct, queue, fast).
- Add harvesting of FFS atime events. This needs to be checked for
weighing down the FS code.
- Add harvesting of slab allocator events. This needs to be checked for
weighing down the allocator code.
- Fix the random(9) manpage.
- Loadable modules are not present for now. These will be re-engineered
when the dust settles.
- Use macros for locks.
- Fix comments.
* src/share/man/...
- Update the man pages.
* src/etc/...
- The startup/shutdown work is done in D2924.
* src/UPDATING
- Add UPDATING announcement.
* src/sys/dev/random/build.sh
- Add copyright.
- Add libz for unit tests.
* src/sys/dev/random/dummy.c
- Remove; no longer needed. Functionality incorporated into randomdev.*.
* live_entropy_sources.c live_entropy_sources.h
- Remove; content moved.
- move content to randomdev.[ch] and optimise.
* src/sys/dev/random/random_adaptors.c src/sys/dev/random/random_adaptors.h
- Remove; plugability is no longer used. Compile-time algorithm
selection is the way to go.
* src/sys/dev/random/random_harvestq.c src/sys/dev/random/random_harvestq.h
- Add early (re)boot-time randomness caching.
* src/sys/dev/random/randomdev_soft.c src/sys/dev/random/randomdev_soft.h
- Remove; no longer needed.
* src/sys/dev/random/uint128.h
- Provide a fake uint128_t; if a real one ever arrived, we can use
that instead. All that is needed here is N=0, N++, N==0, and some
localised trickery is used to manufacture a 128-bit 0ULLL.
* src/sys/dev/random/unit_test.c src/sys/dev/random/unit_test.h
- Improve unit tests; previously the testing human needed clairvoyance;
now the test will do a basic check of compressibility. Clairvoyant
talent is still a good idea.
- This is still a long way off a proper unit test.
* src/sys/dev/random/fortuna.c src/sys/dev/random/fortuna.h
- Improve messy union to just uint128_t.
- Remove unneeded 'static struct fortuna_start_cache'.
- Tighten up up arithmetic.
- Provide a method to allow eternal junk to be introduced; harden
it against blatant by compress/hashing.
- Assert that locks are held correctly.
- Fix the nasty pre- and post-read overloading by providing explictit
functions to do these tasks.
- Turn into self-sufficient module (no longer requires randomdev_soft.[ch])
* src/sys/dev/random/yarrow.c src/sys/dev/random/yarrow.h
- Improve messy union to just uint128_t.
- Remove unneeded 'staic struct start_cache'.
- Tighten up up arithmetic.
- Provide a method to allow eternal junk to be introduced; harden
it against blatant by compress/hashing.
- Assert that locks are held correctly.
- Fix the nasty pre- and post-read overloading by providing explictit
functions to do these tasks.
- Turn into self-sufficient module (no longer requires randomdev_soft.[ch])
- Fix some magic numbers elsewhere used as FAST and SLOW.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2025
Reviewed by: vsevolod,delphij,rwatson,trasz,jmg
Approved by: so (delphij)
jail's creation parameters. This allows the kernel version to be reliably
spoofed within the jail whether examined directly with sysctl or
indirectly with the uname -r and -K options.
The values can only be set at jail creation time, to eliminate the need
for any locking when accessing the values via sysctl.
The overridden values are inherited by nested jails (unless the config for
the nested jails also overrides the values).
There is no sanity or range checking, other than disallowing an empty
release string or a zero release date, by design. The system
administrator is trusted to set sane values. Setting values that are
newer than the actual running kernel will likely cause compatibility
problems.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1948
Relnotes: yes
- Wrong integer type was specified.
- Wrong or missing "access" specifier. The "access" specifier
sometimes included the SYSCTL type, which it should not, except for
procedural SYSCTL nodes.
- Logical OR where binary OR was expected.
- Properly assert the "access" argument passed to all SYSCTL macros,
using the CTASSERT macro. This applies to both static- and dynamically
created SYSCTLs.
- Properly assert the the data type for both static and dynamic
SYSCTLs. In the case of static SYSCTLs we only assert that the data
pointed to by the SYSCTL data pointer has the correct size, hence
there is no easy way to assert types in the C language outside a
C-function.
- Rewrote some code which doesn't pass a constant "access" specifier
when creating dynamic SYSCTL nodes, which is now a requirement.
- Updated "EXAMPLES" section in SYSCTL manual page.
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:
1) no output from sysctl(8)
2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
or uname(1)
truss: can not get etype: Cannot allocate memory
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statically and
dynamically created ones, except for the SYSCTL NODE type and SYSCTLs
which belong to VNETs. A new flag, CTLFLAG_NOFETCH, has been added to
be used in the case a tunable sysctl has a custom initialisation
function allowing the sysctl to still be marked as a tunable. The
kernel SYSCTL API is mostly the same, with a few exceptions for some
special operations like iterating childrens of a static/extern SYSCTL
node. This operation should probably be made into a factored out
common macro, hence some device drivers use this. The reason for
changing the SYSCTL API was the need for a SYSCTL parent OID pointer
and not only the SYSCTL parent OID list pointer in order to quickly
generate the sysctl path. The motivation behind this patch is to avoid
parameter loading cludges inside the OFED driver subsystem. Instead of
adding special code to the OFED driver subsystem to post-load tunables
into dynamically created sysctls, we generalize this in the kernel.
Other changes:
- Corrected a possibly incorrect sysctl name from "hw.cbb.intr_mask"
to "hw.pcic.intr_mask".
- Removed redundant TUNABLE statements throughout the kernel.
- Some minor code rewrites in connection to removing not needed
TUNABLE statements.
- Added a missing SYSCTL_DECL().
- Wrapped two very long lines.
- Avoid malloc()/free() inside sysctl string handling, in case it is
called to initialize a sysctl from a tunable, hence malloc()/free() is
not ready when sysctls from the sysctl dataset are registered.
- Bumped FreeBSD version to indicate SYSCTL API change.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
To reduce the diff struct pcu.cnt field was not renamed, so
PCPU_OP(cnt.field) is still used. pc_cnt and pcpu are also used in
kvm(3) and vmstat(8). The goal was to not affect externally used KPI.
Bump __FreeBSD_version_ in case some out-of-tree module/code relies on the
the global cnt variable.
Exp-run revealed no ports using it directly.
No objection from: arch@
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
MACHINE_ARCH values whose binaries this kernel can run. This patch provides
a feature requested for implementing pkgng ABI identifiers in a robust
way.
The list is designed to indicate whether, say, an i386 package can be run on
the current system. If kern.supported_abis contains "i386", then the answer
is yes. Otherwise, the answer is no.
At the moment, this only supports MACHINE_ARCH and MACHINE_ARCH32. As we
gain support for more interesting combinations, this needs to become more
flexible, possibily through the sysent framework, along with the
hw.machine_arch emulation immediately preceding this code in kern_mib.c.
Reviewed by: imp
MFC after: 3 days
And provide kernel compiler version as a sysctl as well.
This is useful while we have gcc and clang cohabitation.
This could be even more useful when we have support
for external toolchains.
In cooperation with: mjg
MFC after: 13 days
may be jointly referenced via the mask CTLFLAG_CAPRW. Sysctls with these
flags are available in Capsicum's capability mode; other sysctl nodes are
not.
Flag several useful sysctls as available in capability mode, such as memory
layout sysctls required by the run-time linker and malloc(3). Also expose
access to randomness and available kernel features.
A few sysctls are enabled to support name->MIB conversion; these may leak
information to capability mode by virtue of providing resolution on names
not flagged for access in capability mode. This is, generally, not a huge
problem, but might be something to resolve in the future. Flag these cases
with XXX comments.
Submitted by: jonathan
Sponsored by: Google, Inc.
