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
variables. Use the -d flag in sysctl(8) to see this information.
Possible extensions to sysctl:
+ report variables that do not have a description
+ given a name, report the oid it maps to.
Note to developers: have a look at your code, there are a number of
variables which do not have a description.
Note to developers: do we want this in 4.5 ? It is a very small change
and very useful for documentation purposes.
Suggested by: Orion Hodson
sysctl_req', which describes in-progress sysctl requests. This permits
sysctl handlers to have access to the current thread, permitting work
on implementing td->td_ucred, migration of suser() to using struct
thread to derive the appropriate ucred, and allowing struct thread to be
passed down to other code, such as network code where td is not currently
available (and curproc is used).
o Note: netncp and netsmb are not updated to reflect this change, as they
are not currently KSE-adapted.
Reviewed by: julian
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
This stops panics on unloading modules which define their own sysctl sets.
However, this also removes the protection against somebody actually
defining a static sysctl with an oid in the range of the dynamic ones,
which would break badly if there is already a dynamic sysctl with
the requested oid.
Apparently, the algorithm for removing sysctl sets needs a bit more work.
For the present, the panic I introduced only leads to Bad Things (tm).
Submitted by: many users of -current :(
Pointy hat to: roam (myself) for not testing rev. 1.112 enough.
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
KINFO_BSDI_SYSINFO. This supposedly fixes Netscape 3.0.4 (bsdi binary)
on -current. (and is also applicable to RELENG_4)
PR: 25476
Submitted by: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
static entries with oid's over 100, and defining enough dynamic entries
causes an overlap.
Move the "magic" value 0x100 into <sys/sysctl.h> where it belongs.
PR: 29131
Submitted by: "Alexander N. Kabaev" <kabaev@mail.ru>
Reviewed by: -arch, -audit
MFC after: 2 weeks
Replace the a.out emulation of 'struct linker_set' with something
a little more flexible. <sys/linker_set.h> now provides macros for
accessing elements and completely hides the implementation.
The linker_set.h macros have been on the back burner in various
forms since 1998 and has ideas and code from Mike Smith (SET_FOREACH()),
John Polstra (ELF clue) and myself (cleaned up API and the conversion
of the rest of the kernel to use it).
The macros declare a strongly typed set. They return elements with the
type that you declare the set with, rather than a generic void *.
For ELF, we use the magic ld symbols (__start_<setname> and
__stop_<setname>). Thanks to Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> for the
trick about how to force ld to provide them for kld's.
For a.out, we use the old linker_set struct.
NOTE: the item lists are no longer null terminated. This is why
the code impact is high in certain areas.
The runtime linker has a new method to find the linker set
boundaries depending on which backend format is in use.
linker sets are still module/kld unfriendly and should never be used
for anything that may be modular one day.
Reviewed by: eivind
more robust. They would correctly return ENOMEM for the first time when
the buffer was exhausted, but subsequent calls in this case could cause
writes ouside of the buffer bounds.
Approved by: rwatson
to the SYSCTL_ADD_FOO() macros is a constant that should be turned into
a string via the pre-processor. Instead, require it to be an explicit
string so that names can be generated on the fly.
- Make some of the char * arguments to sysctl_add_oid() const to quiet
warnings.
and remove sysctl oids at will during runtime - they don't rely on
linker sets. Also, the node oids can be referenced by more than
one kernel user, which means that it's possible to create partially
overlapping trees.
Add sysctl contexts to help programmers manage multiple dynamic
oids in convenient way.
Please see the manpages for detailed discussion, and example module
for typical use.
This work is based on ideas and code snippets coming from many
people, among them: Arun Sharma, Jonathan Lemon, Doug Rabson,
Brian Feldman, Kelly Yancey, Poul-Henning Kamp and others. I'd like
to specially thank Brian Feldman for detailed review and style
fixes.
PR: kern/16928
Reviewed by: dfr, green, phk
