Research Unix, 7th Edition introduced TIMEZONE and DSTFLAG
compile-time constants in sys/param.h to communicate these values for
the machine. 4.2BSD moved from the compile-time to run-time and
introduced these variables and used for localtime() to return the
right offset from UTC (sometimes referred to as GMT, for this purpose
is the same). 4.4BSD migrated to using the tzdata code/database and
these variables were basically unused.
FreeBSD removed the real need for these with adjkerntz in
1995. However, some RTC clocks continued to use these variables,
though they were largely unused otherwise. Later, phk centeralized
most of the uses in utc_offset, but left it using both tz_minuteswest
and adjkerntz.
POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1-2017) states in the gettimeofday specification
"If tzp is not a null pointer, the behavior is unspecified" so there's
no standards reason to retain it anymore. In fact, gettimeofday has
been marked as obsolecent, meaning it could be removed from a future
release of the standard. It is the only interface defined in POSIX
that references these two values. All other references come from the
tzdata database via tzset().
These were used to more faithfully implement early unix ABIs which
have been removed from FreeBSD. NetBSD has completely eliminated
these variables years ago. Linux has migrated to tzdata as well,
though these variables technically still exist for compatibility
with unspecified older programs.
So, there's no real reason to have them these days. They are a
historical vestige that's no longer used in any meaningful way.
Reviewed By: jhb@, brooks@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19550
The timespecadd(3) family of macros were imported from NetBSD back in
r35029. However, they were initially guarded by #ifdef _KERNEL. In the
meantime, we have grown at least 28 syscalls that use timespecs in some
way, leading many programs both inside and outside of the base system to
redefine those macros. It's better just to make the definitions public.
Our kernel currently defines two-argument versions of timespecadd and
timespecsub. NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeDesktop.org's libbsd, however, define
three-argument versions. Solaris also defines a three-argument version, but
only in its kernel. This revision changes our definition to match the
common three-argument version.
Bump _FreeBSD_version due to the breaking KPI change.
Discussed with: cem, jilles, ian, bde
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14725
used portion of the current thread's time slice if the current thread
belongs to the process being queried (i.e., if clock_gettime is invoked
with a clock ID of CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID or the value provided by
passing getpid(2) to clock_getcpuclockid(3)).
The CLOCK_VIRTUAL and CLOCK_PROF timers already make this adjustment via
long-standing code in calcru(), but since those timers are not specified
by POSIX it seems useful to add it here so that the higher accuracy is
available to code which aims to be portable.
PR: 228669
Reported by: Graham Percival
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
sbt is the time in the future that the tsleep_sbt() is expected to be completed
at. sbtt is the current time. Depending on the precision with sysctl
kern.timecounter.alloweddeviation the start time may be incremented by
tc_tick_sbt. The same increment is needed for the current time of sbtt before
calculating the difference. The impact of missing this increment is that rmtp
may increase by one tc_tick_sbt on every early [EINTR] return. If the same
struct is passed in for rqtp as rmtp this can result in rqtp effectively
incrementing by tc_tick_sbt and sleeping longer than originally intended.
This problem was introduced in r247797.
Reviewed by: kib, markj, vangyzen (all on an older version of the test)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Dell EMC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14362
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.
clock_ts_to_ct has a KASSERT that the converted year fits into four
digits. By default (sysctl debug.allow_insane_settime is 0) the kernel
disallows a time too far in the future, using a value of 9999 366-day
years. However, clock_settime is epoch-relative and the assertion will
fail with a tv_sec corresponding to some 8030 years.
Avoid trying to be too clever, and just use a limit of 8000 365-day
years past the epoch.
Submitted by: Heqing Yan <scottieyan@gmail.com>
Reported by: Syzkaller (https://github.com/google/syzkaller)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Add a clock_nanosleep() syscall, as specified by POSIX.
Make nanosleep() a wrapper around it.
Attach the clock_nanosleep test from NetBSD. Adjust it for the
FreeBSD behavior of updating rmtp only when interrupted by a signal.
I believe this to be POSIX-compliant, since POSIX mentions the rmtp
parameter only in the paragraph about EINTR. This is also what
Linux does. (NetBSD updates rmtp unconditionally.)
Copy the whole nanosleep.2 man page from NetBSD because it is complete
and closely resembles the POSIX description. Edit, polish, and reword it
a bit, being sure to keep any relevant text from the FreeBSD page.
Reviewed by: kib, ngie, jilles
MFC after: 3 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Dell EMC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10020
nanosleep() updates rmtp on EINVAL. In that case, kern_nanosleep()
has not updated rmt, so sys_nanosleep() updates the user-space rmtp
by copying garbage from its stack frame. This is not only a kernel
memory disclosure, it's also not POSIX-compliant. Fix it to update
rmtp only on EINTR.
Reviewed by: jilles (via D10020), dchagin
MFC after: 3 days
Security: possibly
Sponsored by: Dell EMC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10044
Add additionally safety and overflow checks to clock_ts_to_ct and the
BCD routines while we're here.
Perform a safety check in sys_clock_settime() first to avoid easy local
root panic, without having to propagate an error value back through
dozens of APIs currently lacking error returns.
PR: 211960, 214300
Submitted by: Justin McOmie <justin.mcomie at gmail.com>, kib@
Reported by: Tim Newsham <tim.newsham at nccgroup.trust>
Reviewed by: kib@
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon, FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9279
and there is no other issues with parallel settime(). Remove spl()
vestiges there as well.
Tested by: pho (as part of the whole patch)
Reviewed by: jhb (same)
Discussed wit: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 month
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7302
(CLOCK_REALTIME case) system calls is non negative.
This commit hides a kernel panic in atrtc_settime() as the clock_ts_to_ct()
does not properly convert negative tv_sec.
ps. in my opinion clock_ts_to_ct() should be rewritten to properly handle
negative tv_sec values.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4714
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
- Threads lifetime cycle, in particular, counting of the threads in
the process, and interlocking with process mutex and thread lock.
The main reason of this is that turnstile locks are after thread
locks, so you e.g. cannot unlock blockable mutex (think process
mutex) while owning thread lock.
- Virtual and profiling itimers, since the timers activation is done
from the clock interrupt context. Replace the p_slock by p_itimmtx
and PROC_ITIMLOCK().
- Profiling code (profil(2)), for similar reason. Replace the p_slock
by p_profmtx and PROC_PROFLOCK().
- Resource usage accounting. Need for the spinlock there is subtle,
my understanding is that spinlock blocks context switching for the
current thread, which prevents td_runtime and similar fields from
changing (updates are done at the mi_switch()). Replace the p_slock
by p_statmtx and PROC_STATLOCK().
The split is done mostly for code clarity, and should not affect
scalability.
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Due to the way those timers are implemented, we can't handle very short
intervals. In addition to that mentioned patch caused math overflows
for short intervals. To avoid that round those intervals to 1 tick.
PR: kern/187668
MFC after: 1 week
using callout_reset_sbt() instead of callout_reset(). We can't remove
lower limit completely in this case because of significant processing
overhead, caused by unability to use direct callout execution due to using
process mutex in callout handler for sending SEGALRM signal. With support
of periodic events that would allow unprivileged user to abuse the system.
Reviewed by: davide
kern_nanosleep() is now converted to use tsleep_sbt(). With this change
nanosleep() and usleep() can handle sub-tick precision for timeouts.
Also, try to help coalesce of events passing as argument to tsleep_bt()
a precision value calculated as a percentage of the sleep time.
This percentage is default 5%, but it can tuned according to users
need via the sysctl interface.
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2012, iXsystems inc.
Tested by: flo, marius, ian, markj, Fabian Keil
callout is started before kern_setitimer() acquires process mutex, but
looses a race and kern_setitimer() gets the process mutex before the
callout. Then, assuming that new specified struct itimerval has
it_interval zero, but it_value non-zero, the callout, after it starts
executing again, clears p->p_realtimer.it_value, but kern_setitimer()
already rescheduled the callout.
As the result of the race, both p_realtimer is zero, and the callout
is rescheduled. Then, in the exit1(), the exit code sees that it_value
is zero and does not even try to stop the callout. This allows the
struct proc to be reused and eventually the armed callout is
re-initialized. The consequence is the corrupted callwheel tailq.
Use process mutex to interlock the callout start, which fixes the race.
Reported and tested by: pho
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
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)
rwlock to protect the table. In old code, thread lookup is done with
process lock held, to find a thread, kernel has to iterate through
process and thread list, this is quite inefficient.
With this change, test shows in extreme case performance is
dramatically improved.
Earlier patch was reviewed by: jhb, julian
the removal of NQNFS, but was left in in case it was required for NFSv4.
Since our new NFSv4 client and server can't use it for their
requirements, GC the old mechanism, as well as other unused lease-
related code and interfaces.
Due to its impact on kernel programming and binary interfaces, this
change should not be MFC'd.
Proposed by: jeff
Reviewed by: jeff
Discussed with: rmacklem, zach loafman @ isilon
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
kern_time.c:
- Unused variable `p'.
kern_thr.c:
- Variable `error' is always caught immediately, so no reason to
initialize it. There is no way that error != 0 at the end of
create_thread().
kern_sig.c:
- Unused variable `code'.
kern_synch.c:
- `rval' is always assigned in all different cases.
kern_rwlock.c:
- `v' is always overwritten with RW_UNLOCKED further on.
kern_malloc.c:
- `size' is always initialized with the proper value before being used.
kern_exit.c:
- `error' is always caught and returned immediately. abort2() never
returns a non-zero value.
kern_exec.c:
- `len' is always assigned inside the if-statement right below it.
tty_info.c:
- `td' is always overwritten by FOREACH_THREAD_IN_PROC().
Found by: LLVM's scan-build
realtimer_expire() to not rearm the timer, otherwise there is a chance
that a callout will be left there and be tiggered in future unexpectly.
Bug reported by: tegge@
This patch fixes places where they should be called atomically changing
their locking requirements (both assume per-proc spinlock held) and
introducing rufetchcalc which wrappers both calls to be performed in
atomic way.
Reviewed by: jeff
Approved by: jeff (mentor)
- Use thread_lock() rather than sched_lock for per-thread scheduling
sychronization.
- Use the per-process spinlock rather than the sched_lock for per-process
scheduling synchronization.
Tested by: kris, current@
Tested on: i386, amd64, ULE, 4BSD, libthr, libkse, PREEMPTION, etc.
Discussed with: kris, attilio, kmacy, jhb, julian, bde (small parts each)
the introduction of priv(9) and MAC Framework entry points for privilege
checking/granting. These entry points exactly aligned with privileges and
provided no additional security context:
- mac_check_sysarch_ioperm()
- mac_check_kld_unload()
- mac_check_settime()
- mac_check_system_nfsd()
Add mpo_priv_check() implementations to Biba and LOMAC policies, which,
for each privilege, determine if they can be granted to processes
considered unprivileged by those two policies. These mostly, but not
entirely, align with the set of privileges granted in jails.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
- 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.
system calls now enter without Giant held, and then in some cases, acquire
Giant explicitly.
Remove a number of other MPSAFE annotations in the credential code and
tweak one or two other adjacent 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
image_params arg.
- Change struct image_params to include struct sysentvec pointer and
initialize it.
- Change all consumers of process_exit/process_exec eventhandlers to
new prototypes (includes splitting up into distinct exec/exit functions).
- Add eventhandler to userret.
Sponsored by: Google SoC 2006
Submitted by: rdivacky
Parts suggested by: jhb (on hackers@)
