linker_search_module().
Without this, modules loaded from loader.conf that then try to load
in additional modules (such as digi.ko loading a card's BIOS) die
badly in the vn_open() called from linker_search_module().
It may be worth checking (KASSERTing?) that rootdev != NODEV in
vn_open() too.
mod_depend * (which may be NULL). The only consumer of this
function at the moment is digi_loadmoduledata(), and that passes
a NULL mod_depend *.
In linker_reference_module(), check to see if we've already got
the required module loaded. If we have, bump the reference count
and return that, otherwise continue the module search as normal.
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_linker.c and rev. 1.237 of vfs_syscalls.c since these are not the
source of the recent panics occuring around kldloading file system
support modules.
Requested by: rwatson
made aware in jail environments. Supposedly something is broken, so
this should be backed out until further investigation proves otherwise,
or a proper fix can be provided.
against users within a jail attempting to load kernel modules.
- Add a check of securelevel_gt() to vfs_mount() in order to chop some
low hanging fruit for the repair of securelevel checking of linking and
unlinking files from within jails. There is more to be done here.
Reviewed by: rwatson
all the global bits of ``module'' data. This commit adds a few generic
macros, MOD_SLOCK, MOD_XLOCK, etc., that are meant to be used as ways
of accessing the SX lock. It is also the first step in helping to lock
down the kernel linker and module systems.
Reviewed by: jhb, jake, smp@
in "missing dependencies" error when loading some kld modules. It is sad to
see how often these days style cleanus break doesn't broken things. Perhaps
people should recall good old principle: "don't fix it if it isn't broken".
credential selection, rather than reference via a thread or process
pointer. This is part of a gradual migration to suser() accepting
a struct ucred instead of a struct proc, simplifying the reference
and locking semantics of suser().
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
function symbols in the kernel in a list of C strings, with an extra
nul-termination at the end.
This sysctl requires addition of a new linker operation. Now,
linker_file_t's need to respond to "each_function_name" to export
their function symbols.
Note that the sysctl doesn't currently allow distinguishing multiple
symbols with the same name from different modules, but could quite
easily without a change to the linker operation. This will be a nicety
to have when it can be used.
Obtained from: NAI Labs CBOSS project
Funded by: DARPA
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
Replace the a.out emulation of 'struct linker_set' with something
a little more flexible. <sys/linker_set.h> now provides macros for
accessing elements and completely hides the implementation.
The linker_set.h macros have been on the back burner in various
forms since 1998 and has ideas and code from Mike Smith (SET_FOREACH()),
John Polstra (ELF clue) and myself (cleaned up API and the conversion
of the rest of the kernel to use it).
The macros declare a strongly typed set. They return elements with the
type that you declare the set with, rather than a generic void *.
For ELF, we use the magic ld symbols (__start_<setname> and
__stop_<setname>). Thanks to Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> for the
trick about how to force ld to provide them for kld's.
For a.out, we use the old linker_set struct.
NOTE: the item lists are no longer null terminated. This is why
the code impact is high in certain areas.
The runtime linker has a new method to find the linker set
boundaries depending on which backend format is in use.
linker sets are still module/kld unfriendly and should never be used
for anything that may be modular one day.
Reviewed by: eivind
usb, all in usb.ko. uhub depends on usb. The bug was that the preload
processing only adds a module to the list once it's internal dependencies
are resolved... Since it was not "seeing" the internal usb module it
believed that uhub had a missing dependency.
after the acquisition of any advisory locks. This fix corrects a case
in which a process tries to open a file with a non-blocking exclusive
lock. Even if it fails to get the lock it would still truncate the
file even though its open failed. With this change, the truncation
is done only after the lock is successfully acquired.
Obtained from: BSD/OS
instead of requiring every caller of linker_load_file() to perform the
check itself. This avoids netgraph loading KLD's when securelevel > 0,
not to mention any future code that may call linker_load_file().
Reviewed by: dfr
version dependency system. This isn't quite finished, but it is at a
useful stage to do a functional checkpoint.
Highlights:
- version and dependency metadata is gathered via linker sets, so things
are handled the same for static kernels and code built to live in a kld.
- The dependencies are at module level (versus at file level).
- Dependencies determine kld symbol search order - this means that you
cannot link against symbols in another file unless you depend on it. This
is so that you cannot accidently unload the target out from underneath
the ones referencing it.
- It is flexible enough that we can put tags in #include files and macros
so that we can get decent hooks for enforcing recompiles on incompatable
ABI changes. eg: if we change struct proc, we could force a recompile
for all kld's that reference the proc struct.
- Tangled dependency references at boot time are sorted. Files are
relocated once all their dependencies are already relocated.
Caveats:
- Loader support is incomplete, but has been worked on seperately.
- Actual enforcement of the version number tags is not active yet - just
the module dependencies are live. The actual structure of versioning
hasn't been agreed on yet. (eg: major.minor, or whatever)
- There is some backwards compatability for old modules without metadata
but I'm not sure how good it is.
This is based on work originally done by Boris Popov (bp@freebsd.org),
but I'm not sure he'd recognize much of it now. Don't blame him. :-)
Also, ideas have been borrowed from Mike Smith.
* Report link errors to stdout with uprintf() so that the user can see
what went wrong (PR kern/9214).
* Add support code to allow module symbols to be loaded into GDB using
the debugger's "sharedlibrary" command.
I've made a seperate version (c_index() etc) that use const/const, but
I'm not sure it's worth it considering there is one file in the tree
that uses index on const strings (kern_linker.c) and it's easily adjusted
to scan the strings directly (and is perhaps more efficient that way).
