This has no security implications since only root is allowed to use
kenv(1) (and corrupt the kernel memory after adding too much variables
previous to this commit).
This is based upon the PR [1] mentioned below, but extended to check both
bounds (in case of an overflow of the counting variable) and to comply
to the style of the function. An overflow of the counting variable
shouldn't happen after adding the check for the upper bound, but better
safe than sorry (in case some other function in the kernel overwrites
random memory).
An interested soul may want to add a printf to notify root in case the
bounds are hit.
Also allocate KENV_SIZE+1 entries (the array is NULL-terminated), since
the comment for KENV_SIZE says it's the maximum number of environment
strings. [2]
PR: 83687 [1]
Submitted by: Harry Coin <harrycoin@qconline.com> [1]
Submitted by: Ariff Abdullah <skywizard@MyBSD.org.my> [2]
permitting MAC policies to limit access to the kernel environment.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
- malformed environment strings (ones without an '=') were not rejected.
There shouldn't be any of these, but when the static environment is
empty it always begins with one of these; this one should be considered
as the terminator after the end of the environment, but it isn't.
- the comparison of the name being looked up with the name in the
environment was fuzzy -- only the characters up to the length of the
latter were compared, so _getenv_static("foobar") matched "foo=..."
in the environment and everything matched "" in the empty environment.
MFC after: 3 days
environment needed at boot time to a dynamic subsystem when VM is
up. The dynamic kernel environment is protected by an sx lock.
This adds some new functions to manipulate the kernel environment :
freeenv(), setenv(), unsetenv() and testenv(). freeenv() has to be
called after every getenv() when you have finished using the string.
testenv() only tests if an environment variable is present, and
doesn't require a freeenv() call. setenv() and unsetenv() are self
explanatory.
The kenv(2) syscall exports these new functionalities to userland,
mainly for kenv(1).
Reviewed by: peter
returns an success/failure code rather than the actual value.
- Add getenv_string() which copies a string from the environment to another
string and returns true on success.
take a const 'name', since they dont modify anything.
159: warning: passing arg 1 of `getenv_int' discards qualifiers...
167: warning: passing arg 1 of `getenv' discards qualifiers from pointer..
around, use a common function for looking up and extracting the tunables
from the kernel environment. This saves duplicating the same function
over and over again. This way typically has an overhead of 8 bytes + the
path string, versus about 26 bytes + the path string.
parameter a char ** instead of a const char **. This make these
kernel routines consistent with the corresponding libc userland
routines.
Which is actually 'correct' is debatable, but consistency and
following the spec was deemed more important in this case.
Reviewed by (in concept): phk, bde
