The PR also included documentation for other options, but upon
inspection of the source these options aren't used.
PR: docs/24149
Submitted by: Jesse Monroy, Jr. <opentrax@email.com>
it at boot time closer to the way we want it to be in the final version.
* Move the default directory to /var/db/entropy
* Run the entropy saving cron job every 11 minutes. This seems
to be a better default, although still bikeshed material.
* Feed /dev/random some cheesy "entropy" from various commands
and files before the disks are mounted. This gives /dev/random
a better chance of running without blocking early.
* Move the reseeding with previously stored entropy to the point
immediately after the disks are mounted.
* Make the harvesting script a little safer in regards to the
possibility of accidentally overwriting something other
than a regular file.
it can be used to reseed at boot time. This will greatly increase
the chances that there will be sufficient entropy available at
boot time to prevent long delays.
For /etc/rc, remove the vmstat and iostat runs from the attempt
to provide some cheesy randomness if the files fail, since
those programs are dynamically linked, and ldd seems to want
some randomness to do its magic.
Guidance and parameters for this project were provided by
Mark Murray, based on the requirements of the Yarrow
algorithm. Some helpful suggestions for implementation
(including the tip about iostat and vmstat) were provided
by Sheldon Hearn. All blame for problems or mistakes is
mine of course.
PADI packet contains a NULL service. This is apparently the desired
behaviour in this case, though we only allow advertising one
service. You could run multiple pppoeds to advertise multiple services.
files. Mostly -I${.CURDIR} was needed -- especially for YACC generated
files as the new cpp does not look in the ultimate source file
(ie, the .y file)'s directory as told by the "#line" directive. Some were
misspellings of "-I${.CURDIR}" as "-I.".
The function's callers generate the error message when appropriate.
This eliminates the message ``Undefined symbol "__register_frame_info"''
which was bogusly returned by dlerror() in some cases.
with telnetd. This should really be done with a positive filter - i.e.
only allow through a configured list of variables.
Also do some buffer-safety cleanups while I'm here - I don't think these
are exploitable.
not allocate a pty(4) so it is not suitable at all for interactive
PAM modules. rlogind calls login(1) which is already PAM enabled.
Approved by: markm
used not to be necessary).
o Allow ``-n ngdebug'' to specify something to pass to NgSetDebug()
and redirect NgSetDebug() output to syslog(8) in daemon() mode.
o Xref ng_ether(8) and NgSetDebug(4).
o Correct the type of the response passed to NgRecvData.
Update documentation to reflect new option. Also fix documentation
style and add missing references.
PR: 21268
Submitted by: "Aleksandr A. Babaylov" <babolo@links.ru>
Reviewed by: imp
function, thus allowing a debugger or other trace tool
to easily grab the addresses of the needed structures
off the stack.
This change is transparent to gdb, which locates the
link_map list and transfers it to debugger memory
for comparison purposes.
A sample program will be committed showing how this can
be used.
Reviewed by: John Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.org>
Beyond changes to the build system, this includes fixing up the sample
freebsd.mc configuration for changes in defaults and syntax, removing
outdated documentation, and updating the release notes.
has set pwok to a non-zero value.
Previously, the fact that skey.access(5) allowed UNIX passwords for
this connection attempt was ignored, even in the NOPAM case.
This only addresses the NOPAM case; when libpam is used, the problem
will persist.
PR: 20333
Formerly the init functions were called in the opposite of the
order in which libraries were loaded, and libraries were loaded
according to a breadth-first traversal of the dependency graph.
That ordering came from SVR4.0, and it was easy to implement but
not always sensible.
Now we do a depth-first walk over the dependency graph and call
the init functions in an order such that each shared object's needed
objects are initialized before the shared object itself. At the
same time we build a list of finalization (fini) functions in the
opposite order, to guarantee correct C++ destructor ordering whenever
possible. (It may not be possible if dlopen and dlclose are used
in strange ways, but we come as close as one can come.)
The need for this renovation has become apparent as more programs
have started using multithreading. The multithreaded C library
libc_r requires initialization, whereas the standard libc does not.
Since virtually every other object depends on the C library, it is
important that it get initialized first.
lock against themselves, causing infinite spinning. Brian Feldman
found this problem when testing with Mozilla and supplied the fix,
which I have revised slightly.
Here is the failure scenario. A thread calls dlopen() and acquires
the writer lock. While the thread still holds the lock, a signal
is delivered and caught. The signal handler tries to call a function
which hasn't been bound yet. It thus enters the dynamic linker
and tries to acquire the reader lock. Since the writer lock is
already held, it will spin forever in the signal handler. The
thread holding the lock won't be able to progress and release the
lock.
The solution is to block almost all signals while holding the
exclusive lock.
A similar problem could conceivably occur in the opposite order.
Namely, a thread is holding the reader lock and then a signal
handler calls dlopen() or dlclose() and spins waiting for the writer
lock. We deal with this administratively by proclaiming that signal
handlers aren't allowed to call dlopen() or dlclose(). Actually
we don't have to proclaim a thing, since signal handlers aren't
allowed to call any system functions except those which are explicitly
permitted.
Submitted by: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green>
and for all (I hope). Packages such as wine, JDK, and linuxthreads
should no longer have any problems with re-entering the dynamic
linker.
This commit replaces the locking used in the dynamic linker with a
new spinlock-based reader/writer lock implementation. Brian
Fundakowski Feldman <green> argued for this from the very beginning,
but it took me a long time to come around to his point of view.
Spinlocks are the only kinds of locks that work with all thread
packages. But on uniprocessor systems they can be inefficient,
because while a contender for the lock is spinning the holder of the
lock cannot make any progress toward releasing it. To alleviate
this disadvantage I have borrowed a trick from Sleepycat's Berkeley
DB implementation. When spinning for a lock, the requester does a
nanosleep() call for 1 usec. each time around the loop. This will
generally yield the CPU to other threads, allowing the lock holder
to finish its business and release the lock. I chose 1 usec. as the
minimum sleep which would with reasonable certainty not be rounded
down to 0.
The formerly machine-independent file "lockdflt.c" has been moved
into the architecture-specific subdirectories by repository copy.
It now contains the machine-dependent spinlocking code. For the
spinlocks I used the very nifty "simple, non-scalable reader-preference
lock" which I found at
<http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/scott/synchronization/pseudocode/rw.html>
on all CPUs except the 80386 (the specific CPU model, not the
architecture). The 80386 CPU doesn't support the necessary "cmpxchg"
instruction, so on that CPU a simple exclusive test-and-set lock
is used instead. 80386 CPUs are detected at initialization time by
trying to execute "cmpxchg" and catching the resulting SIGILL
signal.
To reduce contention for the locks, I have revamped a couple of
key data structures, permitting all common operations to be done
under non-exclusive (reader) locking. The only operations that
require exclusive locking now are the rare intrusive operations
such as dlopen() and dlclose().
The dllockinit() interface is now deprecated. It still exists,
but only as a do-nothing stub. I plan to remove it as soon as is
reasonably possible. (From the very beginning it was clearly
labeled as experimental and subject to change.) As far as I know,
only the linuxthreads port uses dllockinit(). This interface turned
out to have several problems. As one example, when the dynamic
linker called a client-supplied locking function, that function
sometimes needed lazy binding, causing re-entry into the dynamic
linker and a big looping mess. And in any case, it turned out to be
too burdensome to require threads packages to register themselves
with the dynamic linker.
"ld-elf.so.1.old". The dynamic linker is a critical component of
the system, and it is difficult to recover if it is damaged and
there isn't a working backup available. For instance, parts of
the toolchain such as the assembler are dynamically linked, making
it impossible to build a new dynamic linker if the installed one
doesn't work.
DWARF2 exception tables emitted by the compiler for C++ sources.
These tables are tightly packed, and they contain some relocated
addresses which are not well-aligned.
really used in bsd.man.mk).
Don't uselessly set MANSRC ("." is in the path by default, and there are
no ordering problems).
Fixed some other style bugs.
