As discussed in that commit message, it is a dangerous default. But the
safe default causes enough pain on a variety of platforms that for now,
restore the prior default.
Some of this is self-induced pain we should/could do better about; for
example, programmatic CI systems and VM managers should introduce entropy
from the host for individual VM instances. This is considered a future work
item.
On modern x86 and Power9 systems, this may be wholly unnecessary after
D19928 lands (even in the non-ideal case where early /boot/entropy is
unavailable), because they have fast hardware random sources available early
in boot. But D19928 is not yet landed and we have a host of architectures
which do not provide fast random sources.
This change adds several tunables and diagnostic sysctls, documented
thoroughly in UPDATING and sys/dev/random/random_infra.c.
PR: 230875 (reopens)
Reported by: adrian, jhb, imp, and probably others
Reviewed by: delphij, imp (earlier version), markm (earlier version)
Discussed with: adrian
Approved by: secteam(delphij)
Relnotes: yeah
Security: related
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19944
This is a stopgap measure to unbreak installer/VM/embedded boot issues
introduced (or at least exposed by) in r346250.
Add the new tunable, "security.stack_protect.permit_nonrandom_cookies," in
order to continue boot with insecure non-random stack cookies if the random
device is unavailable.
For now, enable it by default. This is NOT safe. It will be disabled by
default in a future revision.
There is follow-on work planned to use fast random sources (e.g., RDRAND on
x86 and DARN on Power) to seed when the early entropy file cannot be
provided, for whatever reason. Please see D19928.
Some better hacks may be used to make the non-random __stack_chk_guard
slightly less predictable (from delphij@ and mjg@); those suggestions are
left for a future revision. I think it may also be plausible to move stack
guard initialization far later in the boot process; potentially it could be
moved all the way to just before userspace is started.
Reported by: many
Reviewed by: delphij, emaste, imp (all w/ caveat: this is a stopgap fix)
Security: yes
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19927
The imagined use is for early boot consumers of random to be able to make
decisions based on whether random is available yet or not. One such
consumer seems to be __stack_chk_init(), which runs immediately after random
is initialized. A follow-up patch will attempt to address that.
Reported by: many
Reviewed by: delphij (except man page)
Approved by: secteam(delphij)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19926
This makes it more consistent with other filesystems, which all end in "fs",
and more consistent with its mount helper, which is already named
"mount_fusefs".
Reviewed by: cem, rgrimes
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19649
When updating across this change (the introduction of ino64), the
"fast and loose" practice of rebooting to multiuser and then doing an
installworld fails with missing symbols. Recommend strongly that users
do this in single user mode. The multiuser case only ever works by
accident because its requirements are stronger than is supported
accross this change. It usually works because critical symbols don't
change their version number in libc, which wasn't the case here.
When reading UPDATING from single user in vi, I noticed a few wrapped,
so fix them to not wrap.
expand -8 UPDATING | awk 'length > 80'
made this easy to find all the offenders.
Add note about needing to start zfs because mount -a doesn't do that.
Add the word 'supported' before 'older branches' for older binaries.
Add note about options in custom config files as well.
iflib is already a module, but it is unconditionally compiled into the
kernel. There are drivers which do not need iflib(4), and there are
situations where somebody might not want iflib in kernel because of
using the corresponding driver as module.
Reviewed by: marius
Discussed with: erj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19041
Rather than mentioning the requirement for 4.x binaries but not
explaining why (it was assuming an upgrade from 4.x to 5.0-current),
explain when compat options are needed (for running existing host
binaries) in a more general way while using a more modern example
(COMPAT_FREEBSD11 for 11.x binaries). While here, explicitly mention
that a GENERIC kernel should always work.
Reported by: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Reviewed by: imp
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18740
The first part of the mips pruning has been commited. This part
is uncontested. Fix the date in the UPDATING file to reflect when
I made the commit. The contested parts will be committed (or not)
once those discussions complete.
This was useful in bring up. However, it causes more issues than the
support is worth (64-bit atomics being chief among them).
Discussed on: freebsd-mips@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18543
relevant and is unused. It's also getting in the way of progress in
some admittedly minor ways. Better to retire it to reduce the burden
on the project.
Discussed on: freebsd-mips@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18543
It has passed an exp run on amd64 and i386, and has testing on arm64. On
other architectures it is expected to run, however it can be disabled by
building world with -DWITHOUT_BSD_CRTBEGIN.
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
- Adding a note to UPDATING
- Adding a note to the history section of the manpage ctm.1
- Adding a message printed to STDERR to the ctm program
This version is meant for release in FreeBSD-12.0 and should remain in
FreeBSD-12 over its life-time.
A follow-up commit will remove ctm from -CURRENT after the MFC to 12
has happened.
Approved by: imp, rgrimes, bcr (man-page)
MFC after: 3 days
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17969
Update messaging for which drm module to install. Add guidance on what
hardware is supported (which should be copied into the release
notes). Note: the in tree drivers are abandonware. There has been no
organized support for them for many years, and the plan is to still
remove them for all but arm once the transition to drm-*kmod is
complete. Also note that WITHOUT_MODULE_DRM and WITHOUT_MODULE_DRM2
should generally be added to src.conf for anybody using the drm-*kmod
ports. That will become default in 13 soon, however.
Approved by: FreeBSD Graphics Team
Relnotes: Yes
MFC After: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17451
- Update OpenSSL to version 1.1.1.
- Update Kerberos/Heimdal API for OpenSSL 1.1.1 compatibility.
- Bump __FreeBSD_version.
Approved by: re (kib)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This is a step in the process of easing migration into the new world order
of DRM drivers. Strongly encourage users towards loading DRM modules via
rc.conf(5) instead of loader.conf(5) by failing the load from loader(8).
Users so inclined may wipe out the blacklist via module_blacklist="" in
loader.conf(5), and it is expected that these modules will eventually be
removed from the blacklist. They may still be loaded as dependencies of
other modules or explicitly via the loader prompt, but this should not be a
major problem.
Approved by: re (rgrimes)
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16914
The workaround described in the 20180530 entry is no longer required.
Amend that entry and add a new 20180530 entry noting lld is the
default amd64 linker.
Reviewed by: imp
Approved by: re (kib)
notices the missing ntpd user and refers to UPDATING. This change makes
it more clear which aspect of UPDATING is important for the ntpd change.
PR: 231334
Approved by: re (gjb)
given in random(4).
This includes updating of the relevant man pages, and no-longer-used
harvesting parameters.
Ensure that the pseudo-unit-test still does something useful, now also
with the "other" algorithm instead of Yarrow.
PR: 230870
Reviewed by: cem
Approved by: so(delphij,gtetlow)
Approved by: re(marius)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16898
Revert r338177, r338176, r338175, r338174, r338172
After long consultations with re@, core members and mmacy, revert
these changes. Followup changes will be made to mark them as
deprecated and prent a message about where to find the up-to-date
driver. Followup commits will be made to make this clear in the
installer. Followup commits to reduce POLA in ways we're still
exploring.
It's anticipated that after the freeze, this will be removed in
13-current (with the residual of the drm2 code copied to
sys/arm/dev/drm2 for the TEGRA port's use w/o the intel or
radeon drivers).
Due to the impending freeze, there was no formal core vote for
this. I've been talking to different core members all day, as well as
Matt Macey and Glen Barber. Nobody is completely happy, all are
grudgingly going along with this. Work is in progress to mitigate
the negative effects as much as possible.
Requested by: re@ (gjb, rgrimes)
As discussed on the MLs drm2 conflicts with the ports' version and there
is no upstream for most if not all of drm. Both have been merged in to
a single port.
Users on powerpc, 32-bit hardware, or with GPUs predating Radeon
and i915 will need to install the graphics/drm-legacy-kmod. All
other users should be able to use one of the LinuxKPI-based ports:
graphics/drm-stable-kmod, graphics/drm-next-kmod, graphics/drm-devel-kmod.
MFC: never
Approved by: core@
Turns out there was a hidden dependency we hasn't counted upon. The
host load /boot/userboot.so to boot the VMs it runs. This means that
the change to lua meant suddently that nobody could run their older
VMs because LUA wasn't in 10.0, last month's HardenedBSD, 11.2 or
whatever. Even more than for the /boot/loader* binaries, we need a
good coexistance strategy for this. While that's being designed and
implemented, drop back to always 4th for userboot.so. This will fail
safe in all but the most extreme environments (but lua-only hacks
to .lua files won't be processes in VMs until we fix it).
Differential Review: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16805
After years in the making, lualoader is ready to make its debut. Both
flavors of loader are still built by default, and may be installed as
/boot/loader or /boot/loader.efi as appropriate either by manually creating
hard links or using LOADER_DEFAULT_INTERP as documented in build(7).
Discussed with: imp
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16795
