number, portable OpenAFS applications don't have to attempt to determine
what system call number was dynamically allocated. No system call
prototype or implementation is defined.
Requested by: Tom Maher <tardis@watson.org>
credentials rather than the real credentials. This is useful for
implementing GUI's which need to modify icons based on access rights,
but where use of open(2) is too expensive, use of stat(2) doesn't
reflect the file system's real protection model, and use of
access() suffers from real/effective credential confusion. This
implementation provides the same semantics as the call of the same
name on SCO OpenServer. Note: using this call improperly can
leave you subject to some of the same races present in the
access(2) call.
o To implement this, break out the basic logic of access(2) into
vpaccess(), which accepts a passed credential to perform the
invocation of VOP_ACCESS(). Add eaccess(2) to invoke vpaccess(),
and modify access(2) to use vpaccess().
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Synchronize syscalls.master with all MPSAFE changes to date. Synchronize
new syscall generation follows because yield() will panic if it is out
of sync with syscalls.master.
Instead introduce the [M] prefix to existing keywords. e.g.
MSTD is the MP SAFE version of STD. This is prepatory for a
massive Giant lock pushdown. The old MPSAFE keyword made
syscalls.master too messy.
Begin comments MP-Safe procedures with the comment:
/*
* MPSAFE
*/
This comments means that the procedure may be called without
Giant held (The procedure itself may still need to obtain
Giant temporarily to do its thing).
sv_prepsyscall() is now MP SAFE and assumed to be MP SAFE
sv_transtrap() is now MP SAFE and assumed to be MP SAFE
ktrsyscall() and ktrsysret() are now MP SAFE (Giant Pushdown)
trapsignal() is now MP SAFE (Giant Pushdown)
Places which used to do the if (mtx_owned(&Giant)) mtx_unlock(&Giant)
test in syscall[2]() in */*/trap.c now do not. Instead they
explicitly unlock Giant if they previously obtained it, and then
assert that it is no longer held to catch broken system calls.
Rebuild syscall tables.
vm_mtx does not recurse and is required for most low level
vm operations.
faults can not be taken without holding Giant.
Memory subsystems can now call the base page allocators safely.
Almost all atomic ops were removed as they are covered under the
vm mutex.
Alpha and ia64 now need to catch up to i386's trap handlers.
FFS and NFS have been tested, other filesystems will need minor
changes (grabbing the vm lock when twiddling page properties).
Reviewed (partially) by: jake, jhb
toggle the P_SUGID bit explicitly, rather than relying on it being
set implicitly by other protection and credential logic. This feature
is introduced to support inter-process authorization regression testing
by simplifying userland credential management allowing the easy
isolation and reproduction of authorization events with specific
security contexts. This feature is enabled only by "options REGRESSION"
and is not intended to be used by applications. While the feature is
not known to introduce security vulnerabilities, it does allow
processes to enter previously inaccessible parts of the credential
state machine, and is therefore disabled by default. It may not
constitute a risk, and therefore in the future pending further analysis
(and appropriate need) may become a published interface.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
operations on file descriptors, which complement the existing set of
calls, extattr_{delete,get,set}_file() which act on paths. In doing
so, restructure the system call implementation such that the two sets
of functions share most of the relevant code, rather than duplicating
it. This pushes the vnode locking into the shared code, but keeps
the copying in of some arguments in the system call code. Allowing
access via file descriptors reduces the opportunity for race
conditions when managing extended attributes.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
introduce a new argument, "namespace", rather than relying on a first-
character namespace indicator. This is in line with more recent
thinking on EA interfaces on various mailing lists, including the
posix1e, Linux acl-devel, and trustedbsd-discuss forums. Two namespaces
are defined by default, EXTATTR_NAMESPACE_SYSTEM and
EXTATTR_NAMESPACE_USER, where the primary distinction lies in the
access control model: user EAs are accessible based on the normal
MAC and DAC file/directory protections, and system attributes are
limited to kernel-originated or appropriately privileged userland
requests.
o These API changes occur at several levels: the namespace argument is
introduced in the extattr_{get,set}_file() system call interfaces,
at the vnode operation level in the vop_{get,set}extattr() interfaces,
and in the UFS extended attribute implementation. Changes are also
introduced in the VFS extattrctl() interface (system call, VFS,
and UFS implementation), where the arguments are modified to include
a namespace field, as well as modified to advoid direct access to
userspace variables from below the VFS layer (in the style of recent
changes to mount by adrian@FreeBSD.org). This required some cleanup
and bug fixing regarding VFS locks and the VFS interface, as a vnode
pointer may now be optionally submitted to the VFS_EXTATTRCTL()
call. Updated documentation for the VFS interface will be committed
shortly.
o In the near future, the auto-starting feature will be updated to
search two sub-directories to the ".attribute" directory in appropriate
file systems: "user" and "system" to locate attributes intended for
those namespaces, as the single filename is no longer sufficient
to indicate what namespace the attribute is intended for. Until this
is committed, all attributes auto-started by UFS will be placed in
the EXTATTR_NAMESPACE_SYSTEM namespace.
o The default POSIX.1e attribute names for ACLs and Capabilities have
been updated to no longer include the '$' in their filename. As such,
if you're using these features, you'll need to rename the attribute
backing files to the same names without '$' symbols in front.
o Note that these changes will require changes in userland, which will
be committed shortly. These include modifications to the extended
attribute utilities, as well as to libutil for new namespace
string conversion routines. Once the matching userland changes are
committed, a buildworld is recommended to update all the necessary
include files and verify that the kernel and userland environments
are in sync. Note: If you do not use extended attributes (most people
won't), upgrading is not imperative although since the system call
API has changed, the new userland extended attribute code will no longer
compile with old include files.
o Couple of minor cleanups while I'm there: make more code compilation
conditional on FFS_EXTATTR, which should recover a bit of space on
kernels running without EA's, as well as update copyright dates.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
from struct proc, which are now unused (p_nthread already was).
Remove process flag P_KTHREADP which was untested and only set
in vfs_aio.c (it should use kthread_create). Move the yield
system call to kern_synch.c as kern_threads.c has been removed
completely.
moral support from: alfred, jhb
gcc's internal exit() prototypes and the (futile) hackery that we did to
try and avoid warnings. main() was renamed for similar reasons.
Remove an exit related hack from makesyscalls.sh.
type. This gave an inconsistent amount of crufty padding on i386's with
64-bit longs (8 bytes instead of 4). On alphas it gives a consistent
amount of crufty padding (8 bytes) in addition to the 4 bytes of normal
padding caused by passing int args as register_t's.
Fixed the args struct tag for the NOPROTO syscalls (netbsd_lchown() and
netbsd_msync()). The tag is currently unused for NOPROTO syscalls, so
the bug has no effect, but it will be used even in the NOPROTO case to
calculate sy_nargs correctly.
my tree for ages (~2 years) waiting for an excuse to commit it. Now Linux
has implemented it and it seems that Staroffice (when using the
linux_base6.1 port's libc) calls this in the linux emulator and dies in
setup. The Linux emulator can call these now.
Make gratuitous style(9) fixes (me, not the submitter) to make the aio
code more readable.
PR: kern/12053
Submitted by: Chris Sedore <cmsedore@maxwell.syr.edu>
NFSSERVER defined, useful for userland fileservers that want to
use a filehandle type interface to the filesystem.
Submitted by: Assar Westerlund assar@stacken.kth.se
PR: kern/15452
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Rename sigaction, sigprocmask, sigpending and sigsuspend to
osigaction, osigprocmask, osigpending and osigsuspend (resp)
and add new syscalls for them to support the new sisgset_t
without breaking existing binaries.
Change the prototype of sigaltstack to use the typedef stack_t
instead of struct sigaltstack to reflect that it is SUSv2
compliant.
Also, rename sigreturn to osigreturn and add a new syscall
to support the modified stackframe. The change is caused by
sigreturn operating on ucontext_t now and the fact that
siginfo_t has been updated to conform to SUSv2.
Changed to `const void *'. utrace() is undocumented, so nothing should
notice.
Fixed missing consts for utrace() and ktrace() in syscalls.master.
sys/ktrace.h is missing some Lite2 changes of shorts to ints.
NetBSD compatible.
Add parameter to fo_read and fo_write. (The only flag FOF_OFFSET mean that
the offset is set in the struct uio).
Factor out some common code from read/pread/write/pwrite syscalls.
linker. This is intended to replace kvm_mkdb etc. The first version
only does name->value lookups, but it's open ended. value->name lookups
would probably be a good thing to do too.
It's been suggested to try and connect the symbol tables to sysctl (which
is probably a more flexible way of doing it if it's done right), but that
is far more complex and difficult than I was ready to have a shot at.
file to a stream socket. sendfile(2) is similar to implementations in
HP-UX, Linux, and other systems, but the API is more extensive and
addresses many of the complaints that the Apache Group and others have
had with those other implementations. Thanks to Marc Slemko of the
Apache Group for helping me work out the best API for this.
Anyway, this has the "net" result of speeding up sends of files over
TCP/IP sockets by about 10X (that is to say, uses 1/10th of the CPU
cycles) when compared to a traditional read/write loop.
FreeBSD/alpha. The most significant item is to change the command
argument to ioctl functions from int to u_long. This change brings us
inline with various other BSD versions. Driver writers may like to
use (__FreeBSD_version == 300003) to detect this change.
The prototype FreeBSD/alpha machdep will follow in a couple of days
time.
