Linux 6.11 has getrandom() in vDSO. It operates on a thread-local opaque
state allocated with mmap using flags specified by the vDSO.
Multiple states are allocated at once, as many as fit into a page, and
these are held in an array of available states to be doled out to each
thread upon first use, and recycled when a thread terminates. As these
states run low, more are allocated.
To make this procedure async-signal-safe, a simple guard is used in the
LSB of the opaque state address, falling back to the syscall if there's
reentrancy contention.
Also, _Fork() is handled by blocking signals on opaque state allocation
(so _Fork() always sees a consistent state even if it interrupts a
getrandom() call) and by iterating over the thread stack cache on
reclaim_stack. Each opaque state will be in the free states list
(grnd_alloc.states) or allocated to a running thread.
The cancellation is handled by always using GRND_NONBLOCK flags while
calling the vDSO, and falling back to the cancellable syscall if the
kernel returns EAGAIN (would block). Since getrandom is not defined by
POSIX and cancellation is supported as an extension, the cancellation is
handled as 'may occur' instead of 'shall occur' [1], meaning that if
vDSO does not block (the expected behavior) getrandom will not act as a
cancellation entrypoint. It avoids a pthread_testcancel call on the fast
path (different than 'shall occur' functions, like sem_wait()).
It is currently enabled for x86_64, which is available in Linux 6.11,
and aarch64, powerpc32, powerpc64, loongarch64, and s390x, which are
available in Linux 6.12.
Link: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/nframe.html [1]
Co-developed-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Tested-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> # x86_64
Tested-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> # x86_64, aarch64
Tested-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site> # x86_64, aarch64, loongarch64
Tested-by: Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.ibm.com> # s390x
Improve aligned_alloc/calloc/malloc test coverage by adding
multi-threaded tests with random memory allocations and with/without
cross-thread memory deallocations.
Perform a number of memory allocation calls with random sizes limited
to 0xffff.
Use the existing DSO ('malloc/tst-aligned_alloc-lib.c') to randomize
allocator selection.
The multi-threaded allocation/deallocation is staged as described below:
- Stage 1: Half of the threads will be allocating memory and the
other half will be waiting for them to finish the allocation.
- Stage 2: Half of the threads will be allocating memory and the
other half will be deallocating memory.
- Stage 3: Half of the threads will be deallocating memory and the
second half waiting on them to finish.
Add 'malloc/tst-aligned-alloc-random-thread.c' where each thread will
deallocate only the memory that was previously allocated by itself.
Add 'malloc/tst-aligned-alloc-random-thread-cross.c' where each thread
will deallocate memory that was previously allocated by another thread.
The intention is to be able to utilize existing malloc testing to ensure
that similar allocation APIs are also exposed to the same rigors.
Reviewed-by: Arjun Shankar <arjun@redhat.com>
Make sure the DSO used by aligned_alloc/calloc/malloc tests does not get
a global lock on multithreaded tests.
Reviewed-by: Arjun Shankar <arjun@redhat.com>
The previous version expanded $0 and $@ twice.
The new version defines a q no-op shell command. The Perl syntax
error is masked by the eval Perl function. The q { … } construct
is executed by the shell without errors because the q shell function
was defined, but treated as a non-expanding quoted string by Perl,
effectively hiding its context from the Perl interpreter. As before
the script is read by require instead of executed directly, to avoid
infinite recursion because the #! line contains /bin/sh.
Introduce the “fatal” function to produce diagnostics that are not
suppressed by “do”. Use “do” instead of “require” because it has
fewer requirements on the executed script than “require”.
Prefix relative paths with './' because “do” (and “require“ before)
searches for the script in @INC if the path is relative and does not
start with './'. Use $_ to make the trampoline shorter.
Add an Emacs mode marker to indentify the script as a Perl script.
Generation of the Perl script does not depend on Perl, so we can
always install it even if $(PERL) is not set during the build.
Change the malloc/mtrace.pl text substition not to rely on $(PERL).
Instead use PATH at run time to find the Perl interpreter. The Perl
interpreter cannot execute directly a script that starts with
“#! /bin/sh”: it always executes it with /bin/sh. There is no
perl command line switch to disable this behavior. Instead, use
the Perl require function to execute the script. The additional
shift calls remove the “.” shell arguments. Perl interprets the
“.” as a string concatenation operator, making the expression
syntactically valid.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
The test aims to ensure that malloc uses the alternate path to
allocate memory when sbrk() or brk() fails.To achieve this,
the test first creates an obstruction at current program break,
tests that obstruction with a failing sbrk(), then checks if malloc
is still returning a valid ptr thus inferring that malloc() used
mmap() instead of brk() or sbrk() to allocate the memory.
Reviewed-by: Arjun Shankar <arjun@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org>
Add a DSO (malloc/tst-aligned_alloc-lib.so) that can be used during
testing to interpose malloc with a call that randomly uses either
aligned_alloc, __libc_malloc, or __libc_calloc in the place of malloc.
Use LD_PRELOAD with the DSO to mirror malloc/tst-malloc.c testing as an
example in malloc/tst-malloc-random.c. Add malloc/tst-aligned-alloc-random.c
as another example that does a number of malloc calls with randomly sized,
but limited to 0xffff, requests.
The intention is to be able to utilize existing malloc testing to ensure
that similar allocation APIs are also exposed to the same rigors.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
The __getrandom_nocancel function returns errors as negative values
instead of errno. This is inconsistent with other _nocancel functions
and it breaks "TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (__getrandom_nocancel (p, n, 0))" in
__arc4random_buf. Use INLINE_SYSCALL_CALL instead of
INTERNAL_SYSCALL_CALL to fix this issue.
But __getrandom_nocancel has been avoiding from touching errno for a
reason, see BZ 29624. So add a __getrandom_nocancel_nostatus function
and use it in tcache_key_initialize.
Signed-off-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
I've updated copyright dates in glibc for 2024. This is the patch for
the changes not generated by scripts/update-copyrights and subsequent
build / regeneration of generated files.
Even for explicit large page support, allocation might use mmap without
the hugepage bit set if the requested size is smaller than
mmap_threshold. For this case where mmap is issued, MAP_HUGETLB is set
iff the allocation size is larger than the used large page.
To force such allocations to use large pages, also tune the mmap_threhold
(if it is not explicit set by a tunable). This forces allocation to
follow the sbrk path, which will fall back to mmap (which will try large
pages before galling back to default mmap).
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>
This restore the 2.33 semantic for arena_get2. It was changed by
11a02b035b to avoid arena_get2 call malloc (back when __get_nproc
was refactored to use an scratch_buffer - 903bc7dcc2). The
__get_nproc was refactored over then and now it also avoid to call
malloc.
The 11a02b035b did not take in consideration any performance
implication, which should have been discussed properly. The
__get_nprocs_sched is still used as a fallback mechanism if procfs
and sysfs is not acessible.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Add anonymous mmap annotations on loader malloc, malloc when it
allocates memory with mmap, and on malloc arena. The /proc/self/maps
will now print:
[anon: glibc: malloc arena]
[anon: glibc: malloc]
[anon: glibc: loader malloc]
On arena allocation, glibc annotates only the read/write mapping.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and aarch64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
With gcc 13.1 with --enable-fortify-source=2, tst-tcfree3 fails to
build on csky-linux-gnuabiv2 with:
../string/bits/string_fortified.h: In function ‘do_test’:
../string/bits/string_fortified.h:26:8: error: inlining failed in call
to ‘always_inline’ ‘memcpy’: target specific option mismatch
26 | __NTH (memcpy (void *__restrict __dest, const void *__restrict
__src,
| ^~~~~~
../misc/sys/cdefs.h:81:62: note: in definition of macro ‘__NTH’
81 | # define __NTH(fct) __attribute__ ((__nothrow__ __LEAF)) fct
| ^~~
tst-tcfree3.c:45:3: note: called from here
45 | memcpy (c, a, 32);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Instead of relying on -O0 to avoid malloc/free to be optimized away,
disable the builtin.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
On the test workload (mpv --cache=yes with VP9 video decoding), the
bin scanning has a very poor success rate (less than 2%). The tcache
scanning has about 50% success rate, so keep that.
Update comments in malloc/tst-memalign-2 to indicate the purpose
of the tests. Even with the scanning removed, the additional
merging opportunities since commit 542b110585
("malloc: Enable merging of remainders in memalign (bug 30723)")
are sufficient to pass the existing large bins test.
Remove leftover variables from _int_free from refactoring in the
same commit.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Previously, calling _int_free from _int_memalign could put remainders
into the tcache or into fastbins, where they are invisible to the
low-level allocator. This results in missed merge opportunities
because once these freed chunks become available to the low-level
allocator, further memalign allocations (even of the same size are)
likely obstructing merges.
Furthermore, during forwards merging in _int_memalign, do not
completely give up when the remainder is too small to serve as a
chunk on its own. We can still give it back if it can be merged
with the following unused chunk. This makes it more likely that
memalign calls in a loop achieve a compact memory layout,
independently of initial heap layout.
Drop some useless (unsigned long) casts along the way, and tweak
the style to more closely match GNU on changed lines.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Old GCC might trigger the the comparison will always evaluate as ‘true’
warnig for static build:
set-freeres.c:87:14: error: the comparison will always evaluate as
‘true’ for the address of ‘__libc_getgrgid_freemem_ptr’ will never be
NULL [-Werror=address]
if (&__ptr != NULL) \
So add pragma weak for all affected usages.
Checked on x86_64 and i686 with gcc 6 and 13.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
The trim_threshold is too aggressive a heuristic to decide if chunk
reuse is OK for reallocated memory; for repeated small, shrinking
allocations it leads to internal fragmentation and for repeated larger
allocations that fragmentation may blow up even worse due to the dynamic
nature of the threshold.
Limit reuse only when it is within the alignment padding, which is 2 *
size_t for heap allocations and a page size for mmapped allocations.
There's the added wrinkle of THP, but this fix ignores it for now,
pessimizing that case in favor of keeping fragmentation low.
This resolves BZ #30579.
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reported-by: Nicolas Dusart <nicolas@freedelity.be>
Reported-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Reviewed-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Tested-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
The tst-mallocfork2 and tst-mallocfork3 create large number of
subprocesss, around 11k for former and 20k for latter, to check
for malloc async-signal-safeness on both fork and _Fork. However
they do not really exercise allocation patterns different than
other tests fro malloc itself, and the spawned process just exit
without any extra computation.
The tst-malloc-tcache-leak is similar, but creates 100k threads
and already checks the resulting with mallinfo.
These tests are also very sensitive to system load (since they
estresss heavy the kernel resource allocation), and adding them
on THP tunable and mcheck tests increase the pressure even more.
For THP the fork tests do not add any more coverage than other
tests. The mcheck is also not enable for tst-malloc-tcache-leak.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Since these functions are used in both catgets/gencat.c and
malloc/memusage{,stat}.c, it make sense to move them into a dedicated
header where they can be inlined.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
This patch adds the strict checking for power-of-two alignments
in aligned_alloc(), and updates the manual accordingly.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Based on these comments in malloc.c:
size field is or'ed with NON_MAIN_ARENA if the chunk was obtained
from a non-main arena. This is only set immediately before handing
the chunk to the user, if necessary.
The NON_MAIN_ARENA flag is never set for unsorted chunks, so it
does not have to be taken into account in size comparisons.
When we pull a chunk off the unsorted list (or any list) we need to
make sure that flag is set properly before returning the chunk.
Use the rounded-up size for chunk_ok_for_memalign()
Do not scan the arena for reusable chunks if there's no arena.
Account for chunk overhead when determining if a chunk is a reuse
candidate.
mcheck interferes with memalign, so skip mcheck variants of
memalign tests.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
This patch adds a chunk scanning algorithm to the _int_memalign code
path that reduces heap fragmentation by reusing already aligned chunks
instead of always looking for chunks of larger sizes and splitting
them. The tcache macros are extended to allow removing a chunk from
the middle of the list.
The goal is to fix the pathological use cases where heaps grow
continuously in workloads that are heavy users of memalign.
Note that tst-memalign-2 checks for tcache operation, which
malloc-check bypasses.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
And make always supported. The configure option was added on glibc 2.25
and some features require it (such as hwcap mask, huge pages support, and
lock elisition tuning). It also simplifies the build permutations.
Changes from v1:
* Remove glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort changes, it is orthogonal and needs
more discussion.
* Cleanup more code.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
It is the default since 2.26 and it has bitrotten over the years,
By using it multiple malloc tests fails:
FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2
FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-malloc-hugetlb1
FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-malloc-hugetlb2
FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-mcheck
FAIL: malloc/tst-mxfast-malloc-hugetlb1
FAIL: malloc/tst-mxfast-malloc-hugetlb2
FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2
FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2-malloc-hugetlb1
FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2-malloc-hugetlb2
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
They are both used by __libc_freeres to free all library malloc
allocated resources to help tooling like mtrace or valgrind with
memory leak tracking.
The current scheme uses assembly markers and linker script entries
to consolidate the free routine function pointers in the RELRO segment
and to be freed buffers in BSS.
This patch changes it to use specific free functions for
libc_freeres_ptrs buffers and call the function pointer array directly
with call_function_static_weak.
It allows the removal of both the internal macros and the linker
script sections.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu, and aarch64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
git commit 0849eed45d ("malloc: Move MORECORE fallback mmap to
sysmalloc_mmap_fallback") moved a block of code from sysmalloc to a
new helper function sysmalloc_mmap_fallback(), but 'pagesize' is used
for the 'minsize' argument and 'MMAP_AS_MORECORE_SIZE' for the
'pagesize' argument.
Fixes: 0849eed45d ("malloc: Move MORECORE fallback mmap to sysmalloc_mmap_fallback")
Signed-off-by: Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
* malloc/malloc.c (_int_malloc): remove redundant check of
unsorted bin corruption
With commit "b90ddd08f6dd688e651df9ee89ca3a69ff88cd0c"
(malloc: Additional checks for unsorted bin integrity),
same check of (bck->fd != victim) is added before checking of unsorted
chunk corruption, which was added in "bdc3009b8ff0effdbbfb05eb6b10966753cbf9b8"
(Added check before removing from unsorted list).
..
3773 if (__glibc_unlikely (bck->fd != victim)
3774 || __glibc_unlikely (victim->fd != unsorted_chunks (av)))
3775 malloc_printerr ("malloc(): unsorted double linked list corrupted");
..
..
3815 /* remove from unsorted list */
3816 if (__glibc_unlikely (bck->fd != victim))
3817 malloc_printerr ("malloc(): corrupted unsorted chunks 3");
3818 unsorted_chunks (av)->bk = bck;
..
So this extra check can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Ayush Mittal <ayush.m@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
I've updated copyright dates in glibc for 2023. This is the patch for
the changes not generated by scripts/update-copyrights and subsequent
build / regeneration of generated files.
This patch is analogous to commit
a3708cf6b0.
atoi has undefined behavior on out-of-range input, which makes it
problematic to use anywhere in glibc that might be processing input
out-of-range for atoi but not specified to produce undefined behavior
for the function calling atoi. In conjunction with the C2x strtol
changes, use of atoi in libc can also result in localplt test failures
because the redirection for strtol does not interact properly with the
libc_hidden_proto call for __isoc23_strtol for the call in the inline
atoi implementation.
In malloc/arena.c, this issue shows up for atoi calls that are only
compiled for --disable-tunables (thus with the
x86_64-linux-gnu-minimal configuration of build-many-glibcs.py, for
example). Change those atoi calls to use strtol directly, as in the
previous such changes.
Tested for x86_64 (--disable-tunables).
If there is enough space in the chunk to satisfy the new size, return
the old pointer as is, thus avoiding any locks or reallocations. The
only real place this has a benefit is in large chunks that tend to get
satisfied with mmap, since there is a large enough spare size (up to a
page) for it to matter. For allocations on heap, the extra size is
typically barely a few bytes (up to 15) and it's unlikely that it would
make much difference in performance.
Also added a smoke test to ensure that the old pointer is returned
unchanged if the new size to realloc is within usable size of the old
pointer.
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Turns out scratch_buffer_dupfree internal API was unused since
commit ef0700004b
stdlib: Simplify buffer management in canonicalize
And the related test in malloc/tst-scratch_buffer had issues
so it's better to remove it completely.
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
MAX_FAST_SIZE is 160 at most, so a uint8_t is sufficient. This makes
it harder to use memory corruption, by overwriting global_max_fast
with a large value, to fundamentally alter malloc behavior.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
