Previously, libc.so would initialize its notion of the break address
using _end, a special symbol emitted by the static linker following
the bss section. Compatibility issues between lld and ld.bfd could
cause the wrong definition of _end (libc.so's definition rather than
that of the executable) to be used, breaking the brk()/sbrk()
interface.
Avoid this problem and future interoperability issues by simply not
relying on _end. Instead, modify the break() system call to return
the kernel's view of the current break address, and have libc
initialize its state using an extra syscall upon the first use of the
interface. As a side effect, this appears to fix brk()/sbrk() usage
in executables run with rtld direct exec, since the kernel and libc.so
no longer maintain separate views of the process' break address.
PR: 228574
Reviewed by: kib (previous version)
MFC after: 2 months
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15663
Originally, on the VAX exect() enable tracing once the new executable
image was loaded. This was possible because tracing was controllable
through user space code by setting the PSL_T flag. The following
instruction is a system call that activated tracing (as all
instructions do) by copying PSL_T to PSL_TP (trace pending). The
first instruction of the new executable image would trigger a trace
fault.
This is not portable to all platforms and the behavior was replaced with
ptrace(PT_TRACE_ME, ...) since FreeBSD forked off of the CSRG repository.
Platforms either incorrectly call execve(), trigger trace faults inside
the original executable, or do contain an implementation of this
function.
The exect() interfaces is deprecated or removed on NetBSD and OpenBSD.
Submitted by: Ali Mashtizadeh <ali@mashtizadeh.com>
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14989
This caching has existed since the CSRG import, but serves no obvious
purpose. Sure, setlogin() is called rarely, but calls to getlogin()
should also be infrequent. The required invalidation was not
implemented on aarch64, arm, mips, amd riscv so updates would never
occur if getlogin() was called before setlogin().
Reported by: Ali Mashtizadeh <ali@mashtizadeh.com>
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14965
The initial value of NOASM is nearly the same in all cases and the
initial value of PSEUDO is the same in all cases so reduce duplication
(and hopefully, future merge conflicts) by machine independent defaults.
Also document the PSEUDO variable.
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
Obtained from: CheriBSD
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7820
Besides removing hand-translation to assembler, this also adds missing
wrappers for arm64 and risc-v.
Reviewed by: emaste, jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7694
value.
This eliminates the need for machine dependant assembly wrappers for
pipe(2).
It also make passing an invalid address to pipe(2) return EFAULT rather
than triggering a segfault. Document this behavior (which was already
true for pipe2(2), but undocumented).
Reviewed by: andrew
Approved by: re (gjb)
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6815
pwrite(2) syscalls are wrapped to provide compatibility with pre-7.x
kernels which required padding before the off_t parameter. The
fcntl(2) contains compatibility code to handle kernels before the
struct flock was changed during the 8.x CURRENT development. The
shims were reasonable to allow easier revert to the older kernel at
that time.
Now, two or three major releases later, shims do not serve any
purpose. Such old kernels cannot handle current libc, so revert the
compatibility code.
Make padded syscalls support conditional under the COMPAT6 config
option. For COMPAT32, the syscalls were under COMPAT6 already.
Remove WITHOUT_SYSCALL_COMPAT build option, which only purpose was to
(partially) disable the removed shims.
Reviewed by: jhb, imp (previous versions)
Discussed with: peter
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
but use normal references instead of weak. This makes the statically
linked binaries to use fast gettimeofday(2) by forcing the linker to
resolve references and providing the neccessary functions.
Reported by: bde
Tested by: marius (sparc64)
MFC after: 2 weeks
profiling and kernel profiling. To enable kernel profiling one has to build
kgmon(8). I will enable the build once I managed to build and test powerpc
(32-bit) kernels with profiling support.
- add a powerpc64 PROF_PROLOGUE for _mcount.
- add macros to avoid adding the PROF_PROLOGUE in certain assembly entries.
- apply these macros where needed.
- add size information to the MCOUNT function.
MFC after: 3 weeks, together with r230291
