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
NCARGS isn't a limit on the number of arguments to pass to a function,
but the number of bytes that can be consumed by arguments to exec. As
such, it is not suitable for a limit on the count of arguments passed
to makecontext().
Sponsored by: DARPA / AFRL
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using mis-identified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
MDSRCS it intended to allow assembly versions of funtions with C
implementations listed in MISRCS. The selection of the correct
machdep_ldis?.c for a given architecture does not follow this pattern
and the file should be added to SRCS directly.
Reviewed by: emaste, imp, jhb
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9841
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
We have an nitems() macro in the <sys/param.h> header that is
convenient to re-use as it makes things easier to read.
Given that it is available already without adding additional
headers and other parts of libc already use it, extend a bit
more its use.
i386 stopped exporting .cerror in r240152, and likewise for amd64 in
r240178. It is not used by other libraries on any platform, so apply
the same change to the remaining architectures.
Reviewed by: jhibbits, jilles
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5774
They are not used anywhere else in the base system and are an internal
implementation detail that does not need to be exposed.
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5728
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
This should also save and restore non-volatile Altivec registers, but that
needs to wait on solving two problems:
1. Adding the nonvolatile vector registers means we need 5 more than _JBLEN
entries in jmp_buf on 32-bit targets (64-bit is OK).
2. Need to figure out how to determine if saving/restoring vector regs
is supported on the current CPU from userland.
MFC after: 1 month
Only i386 and amd64 provide a non-trivial __getcontextx(). Use a common
trivial implementation in gen/ for other architectures, rather than
copying the file to each MD subdirectory.
Reviewed by: kib
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1472
if not already defined. This allows building libc from outside of
lib/libc using a reach-over makefile.
A typical use-case is to build a standard ILP32 version and a COMPAT32
version in a single iteration by building the COMPAT32 version using a
reach-over makefile.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Per the NetBSD Foundation statement
Third parties are encouraged to change the license on any files which
have a 4-clause license contributed to the NetBSD Foundation to a
2-clause license.
check_deferred_signal() returns twice, since handle_signal() emulates
the return from the normal signal handler by sigreturn(2)ing the
passed context. Second return is performed on the destroyed stack
frame, because __fillcontextx() has already returned. This causes
undefined and bad behaviour, usually the victim thread gets SIGSEGV.
Avoid nested frame and the need to return from it by doing direct call
to getcontext() in the check_deferred_signal() and using a new private
libc helper __fillcontextx2() to complement the context with the
extended CPU state if the deferred signal is still present.
The __fillcontextx() is now unused, but is kept to allow older
libthr.so to be used with the new libc.
Mark __fillcontextx() as returning twice [1].
Reported by: pgj
Pointy hat to: kib
Discussed with: dim
Tested by: pgj, dim
Suggested by: jilles [1]
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
usermode context switches (long jumps and ucontext operations). If these
are used across threads, multiple threads can end up with the same TLS base.
Madness will then result.
This makes behavior on PPC match that on x86 systems and on Linux.
MFC after: 10 days
fit into existing mcontext_t.
On i386 and amd64 do return the extended FPU states using
getcontextx(3). For other architectures, getcontextx(3) returns the
same information as getcontext(2).
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 1 month
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
working MI one. The MI one only needs to be overridden on machines
with non-IEEE754 arithmetic. (The last supported one was the VAX.)
It can also be overridden if someone comes up with a faster one that
actually passes the regression tests -- but this is harder than it sounds.