the MAC policy modules to improve robustness against C string
bugs and vulnerabilities. Following these revisions, all
string construction of labels for export to userspace (or
elsewhere) is performed using the sbuf API, which prevents
the consumer from having to perform laborious and intricate
pointer and buffer checks. This substantially simplifies
the externalization logic, both at the MAC Framework level,
and in individual policies; this becomes especially useful
when policies export more complex label data, such as with
compartments in Biba and MLS.
Bundled in here are some other minor fixes associated with
externalization: including avoiding malloc while holding the
process mutex in mac_lomac, and hence avoid a failure mode
when printing labels during a downgrade operation due to
the removal of the M_NOWAIT case.
This has been running in the MAC development tree for about
three weeks without problems.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
attributes from objects over vop_setextattr() with a NULL uio; if
the file system doesn't support the vop_rmextattr() method, fall
back to the vop_setextattr() method.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
interface, rather than relying on a NULL uio for the deletion
operation.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
specify what credential to use when authorizing vn_open() and later
write operations, rather than curthread->td_ucred.
When writing KTR traces to an ALQ, specify the credential of the thread
generating the sysctl request.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
releasing the lock only if we are about to sleep (e.g., vm_pager_get_pages()
or vm_pager_has_pages()). If we sleep, we have marked the vm object with
the paging-in-progress flag.
"ipid" options. This feature has been requested by several users.
On passing, fix some minor bugs in the parser. This change is fully
backward compatible so if you have an old /sbin/ipfw and a new
kernel you are not in trouble (but you need to update /sbin/ipfw
if you want to use the new features).
Document the changes in the manpage.
Now you can write things like
ipfw add skipto 1000 iplen 0-500
which some people were asking to give preferential treatment to
short packets.
The 'MFC after' is just set as a reminder, because I still need
to merge the Alpha/Sparc64 fixes for ipfw2 (which unfortunately
change the size of certain kernel structures; not that it matters
a lot since ipfw2 is entirely optional and not the default...)
PR: bin/48015
MFC after: 1 week
policy definition structure; this permits policies to reduce their
number of gratuitous includes for required for entry points they
don't implement. This also facilitates building the MAC Framework
on Darwin.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
and does not fit into a floppy anymore (1403kb available).
There is not much you can do now except bumping up the image size
(by uncommenting the "fd_size=2880" line in ./config),
at which point you can uncomment sshd, the associated library,
and all the good stuff such as tcpdump and natd and ppp that
you might want on such a box.
A similar change should be applied to other picobsd image types.
Several of the subtypes have an associated vnode which is used for
stuff like the f*() functions.
By giving the vnode a speparate field, a number of checks for the specific
subtype can be replaced simply with a check for f_vnode != NULL, and
we can later free f_data up to subtype specific use.
At this point in time, f_data still points to the vnode, so any code I
might have overlooked will still work.
- Add a command line switch to trigger POWERSTATECHANGE actions on
un-reported power state changes.
PR: i386/32251
Submitted by: Walter C. Pelissero <walter@pelissero.org>
console, even if there is a TIOCCONS console tty. We were already
doing this after a panic, but it's also useful when entering DDB
for some other reason too.
TIOCCONS console (e.g. xconsole) via a timeout routine instead of
calling into the tty code directly from printf(). This fixes a
number of cases where calling printf() at the wrong time (such as
with locks held) would cause a panic if xconsole is running.
The TIOCCONS message buffer is 8k in size by default, but this can
be changed with the kern.consmsgbuf_size sysctl. By default, messages
are checked for 5 times per second. The timer runs and the buffer
memory remains allocated only at times when a TIOCCONS console is
active.
Discussed on: freebsd-arch
Reorder how the pci probing in handled. before adding devices, check to
see if the slot is a multi-function device to see if we should probe all
the functions.
Original idea by: imp
with a new implementation that has a mostly reentrant "addchar"
routine, supports multiple message buffers in the kernel, and hides
the implementation details from callers.
The new code uses a kind of sequence number to represend the current
read and write positions in the buffer. This approach (suggested
mainly by bde) permits the read and write pointers to be maintained
separately, which reduces the number of atomic operations that are
required. The "mostly reentrant" above refers to the way that while
it is now always safe to have any number of concurrent writers,
readers could see the message buffer after a writer has advanced
the pointers but before it has witten the new character.
Discussed on: freebsd-arch
data access errors when trying to read/write to non-existant PCI devices.
fix the psycho bridge to use peek for probing devices. This no longer
fakes it if the OFW node doesn't exist (and the reg == 0).
Reviewed by: jake, tmm
when serving up more than about 32 active files. For details see
section 6.3 (pg 111) of Daniel Ellard and Margo Seltzer, ``NFS
Tricks and Benchmarking Traps'' in the Proceedings of the Usenix
2003 Freenix Track, June 9-14, 2003 pg 101-114.
Obtained from: Daniel Ellard <ellard@eecs.harvard.edu>
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
TAI is a timescale, just like UTC. The tai field returns the offset
between the two, and isn't really used for precision time keeping.
Explain in brief what a positive and a negative leap seconds are. Add
some URLs to very useful web pages about time and time keeping for
more information on using this API.
Reviewed by: phk
