partitions. Several utilities still use this interface and require
additional information since gpart was activated than before. This
allows fsck of a UFS partition without having to specify it is UFS,
per historic behavior.
was possible for a regular user to setup the dump device if he had write access
to the given device. In theory it is a security issue as user might get access
to kernel's memory after provoking kernel crash, but in practise it is not
recommended to give regular users direct access to storage devices.
Rework the code so that we do privileges check within the set_dumper() function
to avoid similar problems in the future.
Discussed with: secteam
For ZVOL-backed LUNs this allows to inform initiators if storage's used or
available spaces get above/below the configured thresholds.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
and the following r273143 commit, supposed to workaround introduced issue by
quite innocent-looking change.
While there is no clear understanding why, but r273143 is accused in data
corruption in some environments with high I/O load. I personally don't see
any problem in that commit, and possibly it is just a trigger to some other
bug somewhere, but better safe then sorry for now.
Requested by: scottl@
MFC after: 3 days
variable (if any) provided in the boot environment. Unset it from
the kernel environment after doing this, so that the passphrase is
no longer present in kernel memory once we enter userland.
This will make it possible to provide a GELI passphrase via the boot
loader; FreeBSD's loader does not yet do this, but GRUB (and PCBSD)
will have support for this soon.
Tested by: kmoore
- 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
in userland rename in-kernel getenv()/setenv() to kern_setenv()/kern_getenv().
This fixes a namespace collision with libc symbols.
Submitted by: kmacy
Tested by: make universe
in order to improve user-friendliness when a system has multiple disks
encrypted using the same passphrase.
When examining a new GELI provider, the most recently used passphrase
will be attempted before prompting for a passphrase; and whenever a
passphrase is entered, it is cached for later reference. When the root
disk is mounted, the cached passphrase is zeroed (triggered by the
"mountroot" event), in order to minimize the possibility of leakage
of passphrases. (After root is mounted, the "taste and prompt for
passphrases on the console" code path is disabled, so there is no
potential for a passphrase to be stored after the zeroing takes place.)
This behaviour can be disabled by setting kern.geom.eli.boot_passcache=0.
Reviewed by: pjd, dteske, allanjude
MFC after: 7 days
driver when it hits a mbuf/iov buffer, it mallocs and copies the data
for processing.. This improves perf by ~8-10% on my machine...
I have thoughts of fixing AES-NI so that it can better handle segmented
buffers, which should help improve IPSEC performance, but that is for
the future...
the assumption that consumers would respect bio_completed and/or
bio_resid to detect short reads. This assumption proved false and
file corruption was the result.
Create as many bios as we need to satisfy the original request.
Check the cached chunk every time we need to do I/O to increase the
hit rate.
Obtained from: junipre Networks, Inc.
MFC after: 1 week
partitions of types other than "freebsd-boot" (in particular, "efi").
This allows the removal of some nasty hacks for supporting PowerPC systems,
in particular aliasing freebsd-boot to apple-boot on APM and an IBM-specific
code on MBR.
This changes the installer to use the correct names, which also breaks a
degeneracy in the meaning of "freebsd-boot" that allows the addition
of support for some newer IBM systems that can boot from GPT in addition to
MBR. Since I have no idea how to detect which those systems are, leave
the default on IBM PPC systems as MBR for now.
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
This partitioning scheme is used in DragonFlyBSD. It is similar to
BSD disklabel, but has the following improvements:
* metadata has own dedicated place and isn't accessible through partitions;
* all offsets are 64-bit;
* supports 16 partitions by default (has reserved place for more);
* has reserved place for backup label (but not yet implemented);
* has UUIDs for partitions and partition types;
No objections from: geom
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
g_orphan_register and g_resize_provider_event. Both are called from the
event queue. Also we have GEOM_DEV class, which does deferred destroy
for its consumers via g_dev_destroy (also called from the event queue).
So it is possible, that for some consumers an orphan method will be
called twice. This triggers panic in g_dev_orphan.
Check that consumer isn't already orphaned before call orphan method.
MFC after: 2 weeks
the provider - also apply to UFS1 filesystems. This should help with
resizing filesystems created by makefs(8), which still uses UFS1.
Tested by: jmg@
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
and geom_uncompress(4). Now, they produce an almost clean diff(1) output.
Remove a duplicated variable from g_uncompress.c and an unnecessary header
from g_uzip.c.
No functional changes.
Instead opening/closing provider by each of metadata classes, do it only
once in core code. Since for SCSI disks open/close means sending some
SCSI commands to the device, this change reduces taste time.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
Make sure not to start I/O bigger than MAXPHYS bytes.
Quoting r264504:
When we detect the condition, we'll reduce the block count and perform
a "short" read. In g_uncompress_done() we need to consider the original
I/O length and stop early if we're about to deflate a block that we didn't
read. By using bio_completed in the cloned BIO and not bio_length to
check for this, we automatically and gracefully handle short reads that
our providers may be doing on top of the short reads we may initiate
ourselves.
Reviewed by: marcel
problems in our providers, such as a KASSERT in md(4). We can initiate
I/O for more than MAXPHYS bytes if we've been given a BIO for MAXPHYS
bytes, the blocks from which we're reading couldn't be compressed and
we had compression in preceeding blocks resulting in misalignment of
the blocks we're trying to read relative to the sector. We're forced to
round up the I/O length to make it an multiple of the sector size.
When we detect the condition, we'll reduce the block count and perform
a "short" read. In g_uzip_done() we need to consider the original I/O
length and stop early if we're about to deflate a block that we didn't
read. By using bio_completed in the cloned BIO and not bio_length to
check for this, we automatically and gracefully handle short reads that
our providers may be doing on top of the short reads we may initiate
ourselves.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
