We stopped adding "Contributed by" or similar lines in sources in 2012
in favour of git logs and keeping the Contributors section of the
glibc manual up to date. Removing these lines makes the license
header a bit more consistent across files and also removes the
possibility of error in attribution when license blocks or files are
copied across since the contributed-by lines don't actually reflect
reality in those cases.
Move all "Contributed by" and similar lines (Written by, Test by,
etc.) into a new file CONTRIBUTED-BY to retain record of these
contributions. These contributors are also mentioned in
manual/contrib.texi, so we just maintain this additional record as a
courtesy to the earlier developers.
The following scripts were used to filter a list of files to edit in
place and to clean up the CONTRIBUTED-BY file respectively. These
were not added to the glibc sources because they're not expected to be
of any use in future given that this is a one time task:
https://gist.github.com/siddhesh/b5ecac94eabfd72ed2916d6d8157e7dchttps://gist.github.com/siddhesh/15ea1f5e435ace9774f485030695ee02
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Make malloc hooks symbols compat-only so that new applications cannot
link against them and remove the declarations from the API. Also
remove the unused malloc-hooks.h.
Finally, mark all symbols in libc_malloc_debug.so as compat so that
the library cannot be linked against.
Add a note about the deprecation in NEWS.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
These deprecated functions are only safe to call from
__malloc_initialize_hook and as a result, are not useful in the
general case. Move the implementations to libc_malloc_debug so that
existing binaries that need it will now have to preload the debug DSO
to work correctly.
This also allows simplification of the core malloc implementation by
dropping all the undumping support code that was added to make
malloc_set_state work.
One known breakage is that of ancient emacs binaries that depend on
this. They will now crash when running with this libc. With
LD_BIND_NOW=1, it will terminate immediately because of not being able
to find malloc_set_state but with lazy binding it will crash in
unpredictable ways. It will need a preloaded libc_malloc_debug.so so
that its initialization hook is executed to allow its malloc
implementation to work properly.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
The malloc-check debugging feature is tightly integrated into glibc
malloc, so thanks to an idea from Florian Weimer, much of the malloc
implementation has been moved into libc_malloc_debug.so to support
malloc-check. Due to this, glibc malloc and malloc-check can no
longer work together; they use altogether different (but identical)
structures for heap management. This should not make a difference
though since the malloc check hook is not disabled anywhere.
malloc_set_state does, but it does so early enough that it shouldn't
cause any problems.
The malloc check tunable is now in the debug DSO and has no effect
when the DSO is not preloaded.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Split the mcheck implementation into the debugging hooks and API so
that the API can be replicated in libc and libc_malloc_debug.so. The
libc APIs always result in failure.
The mcheck implementation has also been moved entirely into
libc_malloc_debug.so and with it, all of the hook initialization code
can now be moved into the debug library. Now the initialization can
be done independently of libc internals.
With this patch, libc_malloc_debug.so can no longer be used with older
libcs, which is not its goal anyway. tst-vfork3 breaks due to this
since it spawns shell scripts, which in turn execute using the system
glibc. Move the test to tests-container so that only the built glibc
is used.
This move also fixes bugs in the mcheck version of memalign and
realloc, thus allowing removal of the tests from tests-mcheck
exclusion list.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Remove all malloc hook uses from core malloc functions and move it
into a new library libc_malloc_debug.so. With this, the hooks now no
longer have any effect on the core library.
libc_malloc_debug.so is a malloc interposer that needs to be preloaded
to get hooks functionality back so that the debugging features that
depend on the hooks, i.e. malloc-check, mcheck and mtrace work again.
Without the preloaded DSO these debugging features will be nops.
These features will be ported away from hooks in subsequent patches.
Similarly, legacy applications that need hooks functionality need to
preload libc_malloc_debug.so.
The symbols exported by libc_malloc_debug.so are maintained at exactly
the same version as libc.so.
Finally, static binaries will no longer be able to use malloc
debugging features since they cannot preload the debugging DSO.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Make the __morecore and __default_morecore symbols compat-only and
remove their declarations from the API. Also, include morecore.c
directly into malloc.c; this should ideally get merged into malloc in
a future cleanup.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Remove __after_morecore_hook from the API and finalize the symbol so
that it can no longer be used in new applications. Old applications
using __after_morecore_hook will find that their hook is no longer
called.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Separate the malloc check implementation from the malloc hooks. They
still use the hooks but are now maintained in a separate file.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
When MALLOC_CHECK_ is non-zero, the realloc hook missed to set errno to
ENOMEM when called with too big size. Run the test tst-malloc-too-large
also with MALLOC_CHECK_=3 to catch that.
The previous patch ensured that all chunk to mem computations use
chunk2rawmem, so now we can rename it to chunk2mem, and in the few
cases where the tag of mem is relevant chunk2mem_tag can be used.
Replaced tag_at (chunk2rawmem (x)) with chunk2mem_tag (x).
Renamed chunk2rawmem to chunk2mem.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
The difference between chunk2mem and chunk2rawmem is that the latter
does not get the memory tag for the returned pointer. It turns out
chunk2rawmem almost always works:
The input of chunk2mem is a chunk pointer that is untagged so it can
access the chunk header. All memory that is not user allocated heap
memory is untagged, which in the current implementation means that it
has the 0 tag, but this patch does not rely on the tag value. The
patch relies on that chunk operations are either done on untagged
chunks or without doing memory access to the user owned part.
Internal interface contracts:
sysmalloc: Returns untagged memory.
_int_malloc: Returns untagged memory.
_int_free: Takes untagged memory.
_int_memalign: Returns untagged memory.
_int_realloc: Takes and returns tagged memory.
So only _int_realloc and functions outside this list need care.
Alignment checks do not need the right tag and tcache works with
untagged memory.
tag_at was kept in realloc after an mremap, which is not strictly
necessary, since the pointer is only used to retag the memory, but this
way the tag is guaranteed to be different from the old tag.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
This is a pure refactoring change that does not affect behaviour.
The CHUNK_AVAILABLE_SIZE name was unclear, the memsize name tries to
follow the existing convention of mem denoting the allocation that is
handed out to the user, while chunk is its internally used container.
The user owned memory for a given chunk starts at chunk2mem(p) and
the size is memsize(p). It is not valid to use on dumped heap chunks.
Moved the definition next to other chunk and mem related macros.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Use the runtime check where possible: it should not cause slow down in
the !USE_MTAG case since then mtag_enabled is constant false, but it
allows compiling the tagging logic so it's less likely to break or
diverge when developers only test the !USE_MTAG case.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
This does not change behaviour, just removes one layer of indirection
in the internal memory tagging logic.
Use tag_ and mtag_ prefixes instead of __tag_ and __mtag_ since these
are all symbols with internal linkage, private to malloc.c, so there
is no user namespace pollution issue.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 6694 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from benchtests/bench-pthread-locks.c
and iconvdata/tst-iconv-big5-hkscs-to-2ucs4.c, to work around this
diagnostic from Savannah:
remote: *** pre-commit check failed ...
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
Similar to the fix 69fda43b8d, save and restore errno for the hook
functions used for MALLOC_CHECK_=3.
It fixes the malloc/tst-free-errno-mcheck regression.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
The MTE patch to add malloc support incorrectly padded the size passed
to _int_realloc by SIZE_SZ when it ought to have sent just the
chunksize. Revert that bit of the change so that realloc works
correctly with MALLOC_CHECK_ set.
This also brings the realloc_check implementation back in sync with
libc_realloc.
This patch adds the basic support for memory tagging.
Various flavours are supported, particularly being able to turn on
tagged memory at run-time: this allows the same code to be used on
systems where memory tagging support is not present without neededing
a separate build of glibc. Also, depending on whether the kernel
supports it, the code will use mmap for the default arena if morecore
does not, or cannot support tagged memory (on AArch64 it is not
available).
All the hooks use function pointers to allow this to work without
needing ifuncs.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
As discussed previously on libc-alpha [1], this patch follows up the idea
and add both the __attribute_alloc_size__ on malloc functions (malloc,
calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc, pvalloc, and memalign) and limit
maximum requested allocation size to up PTRDIFF_MAX (taking into
consideration internal padding and alignment).
This aligns glibc with gcc expected size defined by default warning
-Walloc-size-larger-than value which warns for allocation larger than
PTRDIFF_MAX. It also aligns with gcc expectation regarding libc and
expected size, such as described in PR#67999 [2] and previously discussed
ISO C11 issues [3] on libc-alpha.
From the RFC thread [4] and previous discussion, it seems that consensus
is only to limit such requested size for malloc functions, not the system
allocation one (mmap, sbrk, etc.).
The implementation changes checked_request2size to check for both overflow
and maximum object size up to PTRDIFF_MAX. No additional checks are done
on sysmalloc, so it can still issue mmap with values larger than
PTRDIFF_T depending on the requested size.
The __attribute_alloc_size__ is for functions that return a pointer only,
which means it cannot be applied to posix_memalign (see remarks in GCC
PR#87683 [5]). The runtimes checks to limit maximum requested allocation
size does applies to posix_memalign.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-linux-gnu.
[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-11/msg00223.html
[2] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla//show_bug.cgi?id=67999
[3] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2011-12/msg00066.html
[4] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-11/msg00224.html
[5] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87683
[BZ #23741]
* malloc/hooks.c (malloc_check, realloc_check): Use
__builtin_add_overflow on overflow check and adapt to
checked_request2size change.
* malloc/malloc.c (__libc_malloc, __libc_realloc, _mid_memalign,
__libc_pvalloc, __libc_calloc, _int_memalign): Limit maximum
allocation size to PTRDIFF_MAX.
(REQUEST_OUT_OF_RANGE): Remove macro.
(checked_request2size): Change to inline function and limit maximum
requested size to PTRDIFF_MAX.
(__libc_malloc, __libc_realloc, _int_malloc, _int_memalign): Limit
maximum allocation size to PTRDIFF_MAX.
(_mid_memalign): Use _int_memalign call for overflow check.
(__libc_pvalloc): Use __builtin_add_overflow on overflow check.
(__libc_calloc): Use __builtin_mul_overflow for overflow check and
limit maximum requested size to PTRDIFF_MAX.
* malloc/malloc.h (malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, memalign,
valloc, pvalloc): Add __attribute_alloc_size__.
* stdlib/stdlib.h (malloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc): Likewise.
* malloc/tst-malloc-too-large.c (do_test): Add check for allocation
larger than PTRDIFF_MAX.
* malloc/tst-memalign.c (do_test): Disable -Walloc-size-larger-than=
around tests of malloc with negative sizes.
* malloc/tst-posix_memalign.c (do_test): Likewise.
* malloc/tst-pvalloc.c (do_test): Likewise.
* malloc/tst-valloc.c (do_test): Likewise.
* malloc/tst-reallocarray.c (do_test): Replace call to reallocarray
with resulting size allocation larger than PTRDIFF_MAX with
reallocarray_nowarn.
(reallocarray_nowarn): New function.
* NEWS: Mention the malloc function semantic change.
realloc_check has
unsigned char *magic_p;
...
__libc_lock_lock (main_arena.mutex);
const mchunkptr oldp = mem2chunk_check (oldmem, &magic_p);
__libc_lock_unlock (main_arena.mutex);
if (!oldp)
malloc_printerr ("realloc(): invalid pointer");
...
if (newmem == NULL)
*magic_p ^= 0xFF;
with
static void malloc_printerr(const char *str) __attribute__ ((noreturn));
GCC 7 -O3 warns
hooks.c: In function ‘realloc_check’:
hooks.c:352:14: error: ‘magic_p’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
*magic_p ^= 0xFF;
due to the GCC bug:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82090
This patch silences GCC 7 by using DIAG_IGNORE_NEEDS_COMMENT.
[BZ #22052]
* malloc/hooks.c (realloc_check): Use DIAG_IGNORE_NEEDS_COMMENT
to silence -O3 -Wall warning with GCC 7.
Clean up calls to malloc_printerr and trim its argument list.
This also removes a few bits of work done before calling
malloc_printerr (such as unlocking operations).
The tunable/environment variable still enables the lightweight
additional malloc checking, but mallopt (M_CHECK_ACTION)
no longer has any effect.
After the removal of __malloc_initialize_hook, newly compiled
Emacs binaries are no longer able to use these interfaces.
malloc_get_state is only used during the Emacs build process,
so we provide a stub implementation only. Existing Emacs binaries
will not call this stub function, but still reference the symbol.
The rewritten tst-mallocstate test constructs a dumped heap
which should approximates what existing Emacs binaries pass
to glibc malloc.
After the heap rewriting added in commit
4cf6c72fd2 (malloc: Rewrite dumped heap
for compatibility in __malloc_set_state), we can change malloc alignment
for new allocations because the alignment of old allocations no longer
matters.
We need to increase the malloc state version number, so that binaries
containing dumped heaps of the new layout will not try to run on
previous versions of glibc, resulting in obscure crashes.
This commit addresses a failure of tst-malloc-thread-fail on the
affected architectures (32-bit ppc and mips) because the test checks
pointer alignment.
This will allow us to change many aspects of the malloc implementation
while preserving compatibility with existing Emacs binaries.
As a result, existing Emacs binaries will have a larger RSS, and Emacs
needs a few more milliseconds to start. This overhead is specific
to Emacs (and will go away once Emacs switches to its internal malloc).
The new checks to make free and realloc compatible with the dumped heap
are confined to the mmap paths, which are already quite slow due to the
munmap overhead.
This commit weakens some security checks, but only for heap pointers
in the dumped main arena. By default, this area is empty, so those
checks are as effective as before.
[BZ #17581] The checking chain of unused chunks was terminated by a hash of
the block pointer, which was sometimes confused with the chunk length byte.
We now avoid using a length byte equal to the magic byte.
When the malloc subsystem detects some kind of memory corruption,
depending on the configuration it prints the error, a backtrace, a
memory map and then aborts the process. In this process, the
backtrace() call may result in a call to malloc, resulting in
various kinds of problematic behavior.
In one case, the malloc it calls may detect a corruption and call
backtrace again, and a stack overflow may result due to the infinite
recursion. In another case, the malloc it calls may deadlock on an
arena lock with the malloc (or free, realloc, etc.) that detected the
corruption. In yet another case, if the program is linked with
pthreads, backtrace may do a pthread_once initialization, which
deadlocks on itself.
In all these cases, the program exit is not as intended. This is
avoidable by marking the arena that malloc detected a corruption on,
as unusable. The following patch does that. Features of this patch
are as follows:
- A flag is added to the mstate struct of the arena to indicate if the
arena is corrupt.
- The flag is checked whenever malloc functions try to get a lock on
an arena. If the arena is unusable, a NULL is returned, causing the
malloc to use mmap or try the next arena.
- malloc_printerr sets the corrupt flag on the arena when it detects a
corruption
- free does not concern itself with the flag at all. It is not
important since the backtrace workflow does not need free. A free
in a parallel thread may cause another corruption, but that's not
new
- The flag check and set are not atomic and may race. This is fine
since we don't care about contention during the flag check. We want
to make sure that the malloc call in the backtrace does not trip on
itself and all that action happens in the same thread and not across
threads.
I verified that the test case does not show any regressions due to
this patch. I also ran the malloc benchmarks and found an
insignificant difference in timings (< 2%).
* malloc/Makefile (tests): New test case tst-malloc-backtrace.
* malloc/arena.c (arena_lock): Check if arena is corrupt.
(reused_arena): Find a non-corrupt arena.
(heap_trim): Pass arena to unlink.
* malloc/hooks.c (malloc_check_get_size): Pass arena to
malloc_printerr.
(top_check): Likewise.
(free_check): Likewise.
(realloc_check): Likewise.
* malloc/malloc.c (malloc_printerr): Add arena argument.
(unlink): Likewise.
(munmap_chunk): Adjust.
(ARENA_CORRUPTION_BIT): New macro.
(arena_is_corrupt): Likewise.
(set_arena_corrupt): Likewise.
(sysmalloc): Use mmap if there are no usable arenas.
(_int_malloc): Likewise.
(__libc_malloc): Don't fail if arena_get returns NULL.
(_mid_memalign): Likewise.
(__libc_calloc): Likewise.
(__libc_realloc): Adjust for additional argument to
malloc_printerr.
(_int_free): Likewise.
(malloc_consolidate): Likewise.
(_int_realloc): Likewise.
(_int_memalign): Don't touch corrupt arenas.
* malloc/tst-malloc-backtrace.c: New test case.
[BZ #17581] The checking chain of unused chunks was terminated by a hash of
the block pointer, which was sometimes confused with the chunk length byte.
The chain is now terminated by a NULL byte.
A very large alignment argument passed to mealign/posix_memalign
causes _int_memalign to enter an infinite loop. Limit the maximum
alignment value to the maximum representable power of two to
prevent this from happening.
Changelog:
2013-10-30 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
[BZ #16038]
* malloc/hooks.c (memalign_check): Limit alignment to the
maximum representable power of two.
* malloc/malloc.c (__libc_memalign): Likewise.
* malloc/tst-memalign.c (do_test): Add test for very
large alignment values.
* malloc/tst-posix_memalign.c (do_test): Likewise.
