1. 24 8月, 2011 1 次提交
  2. 23 8月, 2011 2 次提交
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      use new a_crash() asm to optimize double-free handler. · 1c8bead3
      Rich Felker 提交于
      gcc generates extremely bad code (7 byte immediate mov) for the old
      null pointer write approach. it should be generating something like
      "xor %eax,%eax ; mov %al,(%eax)". in any case, using a dedicated
      crashing opcode accomplishes the same thing in one byte.
      1c8bead3
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      security hardening: ensure suid programs have valid stdin/out/err · df0b5a49
      Rich Felker 提交于
      this behavior (opening fds 0-2 for a suid program) is explicitly
      allowed (but not required) by POSIX to protect badly-written suid
      programs from clobbering files they later open.
      
      this commit does add some cost in startup code, but the availability
      of auxv and the security flag will be useful elsewhere in the future.
      in particular auxv is needed for static-linked vdso support, which is
      still waiting to be committed (sorry nik!)
      df0b5a49
  3. 17 8月, 2011 2 次提交
  4. 16 8月, 2011 5 次提交
  5. 15 8月, 2011 3 次提交
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      simplify and improve double-free check · ce7c6341
      Rich Felker 提交于
      a valid mmapped block will have an even (actually aligned) "extra"
      field, whereas a freed chunk on the heap will always have an in-use
      neighbor.
      
      this fixes a potential bug if mmap ever allocated memory below the
      main program/brk (in which case it would be wrongly-detected as a
      double-free by the old code) and allows the double-free check to work
      for donated memory outside of the brk area (or, in the future,
      secondary heap zones if support for their creation is added).
      ce7c6341
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      typo in macro definitions for x86_64 · 6cb277d7
      Rich Felker 提交于
      6cb277d7
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      macro for pthread_equal · 9205e486
      Rich Felker 提交于
      no sense bloating apps with a function call for an equality comparison...
      9205e486
  6. 13 8月, 2011 2 次提交
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      fix missing include in last commit · ef9dd035
      Rich Felker 提交于
      ef9dd035
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      fix clock() function · ad575982
      Rich Felker 提交于
      it previously was returning the pseudo-monotonic-realtime clock
      returned by times() rather than process cputime. it also violated C
      namespace by pulling in times().
      
      we now use clock_gettime() if available because times() has
      ridiculously bad resolution. still provide a fallback for ancient
      kernels without clock_gettime.
      ad575982
  7. 12 8月, 2011 5 次提交
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      implement forkall · 4054a135
      Rich Felker 提交于
      this is a "nonstandard" function that was "rejected" by POSIX, but
      nonetheless had its behavior documented in the POSIX rationale for
      fork. it's present on solaris and possibly some other systems, and
      duplicates the whole calling process, not just a single thread. glibc
      does not have this function. it should not be used in programs
      intending to be portable, but may be useful for testing,
      checkpointing, etc. and it's an interesting (and quite small) example
      of the usefulness of the __synccall framework originally written to
      work around deficiencies in linux's setuid syscall.
      4054a135
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      pthread and synccall cleanup, new __synccall_wait op · 407d9330
      Rich Felker 提交于
      fix up clone signature to match the actual behavior. the new
      __syncall_wait function allows a __synccall callback to wait for other
      threads to continue without returning, so that it can resume action
      after the caller finishes. this interface could be made significantly
      more general/powerful with minimal effort, but i'll wait to do that
      until it's actually useful for something.
      407d9330
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      more efficient signal blocking for timer threads · b1a7102d
      Rich Felker 提交于
      due to the barrier, it's safe just to block signals in the new thread,
      rather than blocking and unblocking in the parent thread.
      b1a7102d
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      block signals in timer threads · c5168071
      Rich Felker 提交于
      if a timer thread leaves signals unblocked, any future attempt by the
      main thread to prevent the process from being terminated by blocking
      signals will fail, since the signal can still be delivered to the
      timer thread.
      c5168071
  8. 08 8月, 2011 2 次提交
  9. 07 8月, 2011 6 次提交
  10. 05 8月, 2011 1 次提交
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      fix off-by-one bug in siglongjmp that caused unpredictable behavior · 338b663d
      Rich Felker 提交于
      if saved, signal mask would not be restored unless some low signals
      were masked. if not saved, signal mask could be wrongly restored to
      uninitialized values. in any, wrong mask would be restored.
      
      i believe this function was written for a very old version of the
      jmp_buf structure which did not contain a final 0 field for
      compatibility with siglongjmp, and never updated...
      338b663d
  11. 04 8月, 2011 4 次提交
  12. 03 8月, 2011 7 次提交
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      overhaul rwlocks to address several issues · 50304f2e
      Rich Felker 提交于
      like mutexes and semaphores, rwlocks suffered from a race condition
      where the unlock operation could access the lock memory after another
      thread successfully obtained the lock (and possibly destroyed or
      unmapped the object). this has been fixed in the same way it was fixed
      for other lock types.
      
      in addition, the previous implementation favored writers over readers.
      in the absence of other considerations, that is the best behavior for
      rwlocks, and posix explicitly allows it. however posix also requires
      read locks to be recursive. if writers are favored, any attempt to
      obtain a read lock while a writer is waiting for the lock will fail,
      causing "recursive" read locks to deadlock. this can be avoided by
      keeping track of which threads already hold read locks, but doing so
      requires unbounded memory usage, and there must be a fallback case
      that favors readers in case memory allocation failed. and all of this
      must be synchronized. the cost, complexity, and risk of errors in
      getting it right is too great, so we simply favor readers.
      
      tracking of the owner of write locks has been removed, as it was not
      useful for anything. it could allow deadlock detection, but it's not
      clear to me that returning EDEADLK (which a buggy program is likely to
      ignore) is better than deadlocking; at least the latter behavior
      prevents further data corruption. a correct program cannot invoke this
      situation anyway.
      
      the reader count and write lock state, as well as the "last minute"
      waiter flag have all been combined into a single atomic lock. this
      means all state transitions for the lock are atomic compare-and-swap
      operations. this makes establishing correctness much easier and may
      improve performance.
      
      finally, some code duplication has been cleaned up. more is called
      for, especially the standard __timedwait idiom repeated in all locks.
      50304f2e
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      timedwait: play it safe for now · 8aeee8db
      Rich Felker 提交于
      it's unclear whether EINVAL or ENOSYS is used when the operation is
      not supported, so check for both...
      8aeee8db
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      fix stubbed-out reboot call · 4f5ba921
      Rich Felker 提交于
      4f5ba921
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      correctly handle old kernels without FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET · 4717bfec
      Rich Felker 提交于
      futex returns EINVAL, not ENOSYS, when op is not supported.
      unfortunately this looks just like EINVAL from other causes, and we
      end up running the fallback code and getting EINVAL again. fortunately
      this case should be rare since correct code should not generate EINVAL
      anyway.
      4717bfec
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      fix sem_timedwait bug introduced in timedwait unification · bdd89337
      Rich Felker 提交于
      this dec used to be performed by the cancellation handler, which was
      called when popped.
      bdd89337
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      unify and overhaul timed futex waits · ec381af9
      Rich Felker 提交于
      new features:
      
      - FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET op will be used for timed waits if available. this
        saves a call to clock_gettime.
      
      - error checking for the timespec struct is now inside __timedwait so
        it doesn't need to be duplicated everywhere. cond_timedwait still
        needs to duplicate it to avoid unlocking the mutex, though.
      
      - pushing and popping the cancellation handler is delegated to
        __timedwait, and cancellable/non-cancellable waits are unified.
      ec381af9
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      avoid accessing mutex memory after atomic unlock · c68de0be
      Rich Felker 提交于
      this change is needed to fix a race condition and ensure that it's
      possible to unlock and destroy or unmap the mutex as soon as
      pthread_mutex_lock succeeds. POSIX explicitly gives such an example in
      the rationale and requires an implementation to allow such usage.
      c68de0be