modified bit emulation traps on Alpha while holding locks in the
sysctl handler.
A better solution would be to pass a hint to the Alpha pmap code to
tell mark these pages as modified when they as they are being wired,
but that appears to be more difficult to implement.
Suggested by: jhb
MFC after: 3 days
not holding any non-sleep-able-locks locks when copyin is called.
This gets executed un-conditionally since we have no function
to wire the buffer in this direction.
Pointed out by: truckman
MFC after: 1 week
the buffer has not been wired and we are holding any non-sleep-able locks,
drop a witness warning. If the buffer has not been wired, it is possible
that the writing of the data can sleep, especially if the page is not in
memory. This can result in a number of different locking issues, including
dead locks.
MFC after: 1 week
Discussed with: rwatson
Reviewed by: jhb
an inordinate amount of synchronous console output that is fairly
undesirable on slower serial console. It's easily hit by accident
when frobbing other sysctls late at night.
sysctl routines and state. Add some code to use it for signalling the need
to downconvert a data structure to 32 bits on a 64 bit OS when requested by
a 32 bit app.
I tried to do this in a generic abi wrapper that intercepted the sysctl
oid's, or looked up the format string etc, but it was a real can of worms
that turned into a fragile mess before I even got it partially working.
With this, we can now run 'sysctl -a' on a 32 bit sysctl binary and have
it not abort. Things like netstat, ps, etc have a long way to go.
This also fixes a bug in the kern.ps_strings and kern.usrstack hacks.
These do matter very much because they are used by libc_r and other things.
somewhat clearer, but more importantly allows for a consistent naming
scheme for suser_cred flags.
The old name is still defined, but will be removed in a few days (unless I
hear any complaints...)
Discussed with: rwatson, scottl
Requested by: jhb
set it to avoid the need for a bunch of code that tests whether or
not the lock member is set to REQ_WIRED in order to determine which
length member should be used.
Fix another bug in the oldlen return value code.
Fix a potential wired memory leak if a sysctl handler uses
sysctl_wire_old_buffer() and returns an EAGAIN error to trigger
a retry.
If vslock() returns ENOMEM, sysctl_wire_old_buffer() should set
wiredlen to zero and return zero (success) so that the handler will
operate according to sysctl(3):
The size of the buffer is given by the location specified by
oldlenp before the call, and that location gives the amount
of data copied after a successful call and after a call that
returns with the error code ENOMEM.
The handler will return an ENOMEM error because the zero length
buffer will overflow.
introduction of kern_mlock() and kern_munlock() in
src/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c 1.150
src/sys/vm/vm_extern.h 1.69
src/sys/vm/vm_glue.c 1.190
src/sys/vm/vm_mmap.c 1.179
because different resource limits are appropriate for transient and
"permanent" page wiring requests.
Retain the kern_mlock() and kern_munlock() API in the revived
vslock() and vsunlock() functions.
Combine the best parts of each of the original sets of implementations
with further code cleanup. Make the mclock() and vslock()
implementations as similar as possible.
Retain the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK check in mlock(). Move the most strigent
test, which can return EAGAIN, last so that requests that have no
hope of ever being satisfied will not be retried unnecessarily.
Disable the test that can return EAGAIN in the vslock() implementation
because it will cause the sysctl code to wedge.
Tested by: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert AT komquats.com>
the syscall arguments and does the suser() permission check, and
kern_mlock(), which does the resource limit checking and calls
vm_map_wire(). Split munlock() in a similar way.
Enable the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK checking code in kern_mlock().
Replace calls to vslock() and vsunlock() in the sysctl code with
calls to kern_mlock() and kern_munlock() so that the sysctl code
will obey the wired memory limits.
Nuke the vslock() and vsunlock() implementations, which are no
longer used.
Add a member to struct sysctl_req to track the amount of memory
that is wired to handle the request.
Modify sysctl_wire_old_buffer() to return an error if its call to
kern_mlock() fails. Only wire the minimum of the length specified
in the sysctl request and the length specified in its argument list.
It is recommended that sysctl handlers that use sysctl_wire_old_buffer()
should specify reasonable estimates for the amount of data they
want to return so that only the minimum amount of memory is wired
no matter what length has been specified by the request.
Modify the callers of sysctl_wire_old_buffer() to look for the
error return.
Modify sysctl_old_user to obey the wired buffer length and clean up
its implementation.
Reviewed by: bms
Now I believe it is done in the right way.
Removed some XXMAC cases, we now assume 'high' integrity level for all
sysctls, except those with CTLFLAG_ANYBODY flag set. No more magic.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: rwatson, scottl (mentor)
Tested with: LINT (compilation), mac_biba(4) (functionality)
Use pre-emption detection to avoid the need for wiring a userland buffer
when copying opaque data structures.
sysctl_wire_old_buffer() is now a no-op. Other consumers of this
API should use pre-emption detection to notice update collisions.
vslock() and vsunlock() should no longer be called by any code
and should be retired in subsequent commits.
Discussed with: pete, phk
MFC after: 1 week
go away in due course. Involuntary pre-emption means that we can't count
on wiring of pages alone for consistency when performing a SYSCTL_OUT()
bigger than PAGE_SIZE.
Discussed with: pete, phk
in the kernel, the sysctl_register() call would fail, as expected.
However, when unloading this module again, the kernel would then panic
in sysctl_unregister(). Print a message error instead.
Submitted by: Nicolai Petri <nicolai@catpipe.net>
Reviewed by: imp
Approved by: re@ (jhb)
in addition to secure level 1. The mask supports up to a secure level of 8
but only add defines through CTLFLAG_SECURE3 for now.
As per the missif in the log entry for 1.11 of ip_fw2.c which added the
secure flag to the IPFW sysctl's in the first place, change the secure
level requirement from 1 to 3 now that we have support for it.
Reviewed by: imp
With Design Suggestions by: imp
permit MAC policies to augment the security protections on sysctl()
operations. This is not really a wonderful entry point, as we
only have access to the MIB of the target sysctl entry, rather than
the more useful entry name, but this is sufficient for policies
like Biba that wish to use their notions of privilege or integrity
to prevent inappropriate sysctl modification. Affects MAC kernels
only. Since SYSCTL_LOCK isn't in sysctl.h, just kern_sysctl.c,
we can't assert the SYSCTL subsystem lockin the MAC Framework.
Approved by: re
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
sysctl_sysctl_next() to skip this sysctl. The sysctl is
still available, but doesn't appear in a "sysctl -a".
This is especially useful when you want to deprecate a sysctl,
and add a warning into it to warn users that they are using
an old interface. Without this flag, the warning would get
echoed when running "sysctl -a" (which happens at boot).
about calls to SYSCTL_OUT() made with locks held if the buffer has not
been pre-wired. SYSCTL_OUT() should not be called while holding locks,
but if this is not possible, the buffer should be wired by calling
sysctl_wire_old_buffer() before grabbing any locks.
so that the data is less likely to be inconsistent if SYSCTL_OUT() blocks.
If the data is large, wire the output buffer instead.
This is somewhat less than optimal, since the handler could skip the copy
if it knew that the data was static.
If the data is dynamic, we are still not guaranteed to get a consistent
copy since another processor could change the data while the copy is in
progress because the data is not locked. This problem could be solved if
the generic handlers had the ability to grab the proper lock before the
copy and release it afterwards.
This may duplicate work done in other sysctl handlers in the kernel which
also copy the data, possibly while a lock is held, before calling they call
a generic handler to output the data. These handlers should probably call
SYSCTL_OUT() directly.
semicolons from the end of macros:
#define FOO() bar(a,b,c);
becomes
#define FOO() bar(a,b,c)
Thus requiring the semicolon in the invocation of FOO. This is much
cleaner syntax and more consistent with expectations when writing
function-like things in source.
With both peril-sensitive sunglasses and flame-proof undies on, tighten
up some types, and work around some warnings generated by this. There
are some _horrible_ const/non-const issues in this code.
Rename memlock to sysctllock, and MEMLOCK()/MEMUNLOCK() to SYSCTL_LOCK()/
SYSCTL_UNLOCK() and related changes to make the lock names make more
sense.
Submitted by: Jonathan Mini <mini@haikugeek.com>
general cleanup of the API. The entire API now consists of two functions
similar to the pre-KSE API. The suser() function takes a thread pointer
as its only argument. The td_ucred member of this thread must be valid
so the only valid thread pointers are curthread and a few kernel threads
such as thread0. The suser_cred() function takes a pointer to a struct
ucred as its first argument and an integer flag as its second argument.
The flag is currently only used for the PRISON_ROOT flag.
Discussed on: smp@
to test req->td for NULL values and then do somewhat more bizarre things
relating to securelevel special-casing and suser checks. Remove the
testing and conditional security checks based on req->td!=NULL, and insert
a KASSERT that td != NULL. Callers to sysctl must always specify the
thread (be it kernel or otherwise) requesting the operation, or a
number of current sysctls will fail due to assumptions that the thread
exists.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
Discussed with: bde
