The AVX2 strcmp implementation uses the 'bzhi' instruction, which
belongs to the BMI2 CPU feature.
NB: It also uses the 'tzcnt' BMI1 instruction, but it is executed as BSF
as BSF if the CPU doesn't support TZCNT, and produces the same result
for non-zero input.
Partially fixes: b77b06e0e2 ("x86: Optimize strcmp-avx2.S")
Partially resolves: BZ #29611
Reviewed-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
The AVX2 str(n)casecmp implementations use the 'bzhi' instruction, which
belongs to the BMI2 CPU feature.
NB: It also uses the 'tzcnt' BMI1 instruction, but it is executed as BSF
as BSF if the CPU doesn't support TZCNT, and produces the same result
for non-zero input.
Partially fixes: b77b06e0e2 ("x86: Optimize strcmp-avx2.S")
Partially resolves: BZ #29611
Reviewed-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
The "System V Application Binary Interface AMD64 Architecture Processor
Supplement" mandates the BMI1 and BMI2 CPU features for the x86-64-v3
level.
Reviewed-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
Save a jmp on the lock path coming from an initial failure in
pthread_spin_lock.S. This costs 4-bytes of code but since the
function still fits in the same number of 16-byte blocks (default
function alignment) it does not have affect on the total binary size
of libc.so (unchanged after this commit).
pthread_spin_trylock was using a CAS when a simple xchg works which
is often more expensive.
Full check passes on x86-64.
After upgrading glibc to Debian 2.35-1, gdb faulted on
startup and dropped core in a function call in the main
application. This was caused by not initializing the
global dp register for the main application early enough.
Restore the code to initialize dp in _dl_start_user.
It was removed when code was added to initialize dp in
elf_machine_runtime_setup.
Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Use INTERNAL_SYSCALL_CALL instead of INLINE_SYSCALL_CALL. This
requires emulate the semantic for hurd call (so __arc4random_buf
uses the fallback).
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>
Using an unsigned type prevents the fallback to be used if kernel
does not support getrandom syscall.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>
If the compiler is new enough, enable static PIE support. In the static
PIE version of _start (in rcrt1.o), use la.pcrel instead of la.got
because in a static PIE we cannot use GOT entries until the dynamic
relocations for GOT are resolved.
Previous implementation was adjusting length (rsi) to match
bytes (eax), but since there is no bound to length this can cause
overflow.
Fix is to just convert the byte-count (eax) to length by dividing by
sizeof (wchar_t) before the comparison.
Full check passes on x86-64 and build succeeds w/ and w/o multiarch.
GCC 13 adds support for _FloatN and _FloatNx types in C++, so breaking
the installed glibc headers that assume such support is not present.
GCC mostly works around this with fixincludes, but that doesn't help
for building glibc and its tests (glibc doesn't itself contain C++
code, but there's C++ code built for tests). Update glibc's
bits/floatn-common.h and bits/floatn.h headers to handle the GCC 13
support directly.
In general the changes match those made by fixincludes, though I think
the ones in sysdeps/powerpc/bits/floatn.h, where the header tests
__LDBL_MANT_DIG__ == 113 or uses #elif, wouldn't match the existing
fixincludes patterns.
Some places involving special C++ handling in relation to _FloatN
support are not changed. There's no need to change the
__HAVE_FLOATN_NOT_TYPEDEF definition (also in a form that wouldn't be
matched by the fixincludes fixes) because it's only used in relation
to macro definitions using features not supported for C++
(__builtin_types_compatible_p and _Generic). And there's no need to
change the inline function overloads for issignaling, iszero and
iscanonical in C++ because cases where types have the same format but
are no longer compatible types are handled automatically by the C++
overload resolution rules.
This patch also does not change the overload handling for iseqsig, and
there I think changes *are* needed, beyond those in this patch or made
by fixincludes. The way that overload is defined, via a template
parameter to a structure type, requires overloads whenever the types
are incompatible, even if they have the same format. So I think we
need to add overloads with GCC 13 for every supported _FloatN and
_FloatNx type, rather than just having one for _Float128 when it has a
different ABI to long double as at present (but for older GCC, such
overloads must not be defined for types that end up defined as
typedefs for another type).
Tested with build-many-glibcs.py: compilers build for
aarch64-linux-gnu ia64-linux-gnu mips64-linux-gnu powerpc-linux-gnu
powerpc64le-linux-gnu x86_64-linux-gnu; glibcs build for
aarch64-linux-gnu ia64-linux-gnu i686-linux-gnu mips-linux-gnu
mips64-linux-gnu-n32 powerpc-linux-gnu powerpc64le-linux-gnu
x86_64-linux-gnu.
Fix the subscript on air->family, which was accidentally set to COUNT
when it should have remained as I.
Resolves: BZ #29605
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Rename atomic_exchange_rel/acq to use atomic_exchange_release/acquire
since these map to the standard C11 atomic builtins.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Replace atomic_decrement_and_test with atomic_fetch_add_relaxed.
These are simple counters which do not protect any shared data from
concurrent accesses. Also remove the unused file cond-perf.c.
Passes regress on AArch64.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Replace atomic_increment and atomic_increment_val with atomic_fetch_add_relaxed.
One case in sem_post.c uses release semantics (see comment above it).
The others are simple counters and do not protect any shared data from
concurrent accesses.
Passes regress on AArch64.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
We don't need RV32 specific floating point functions, instead make them
generic for RISC-V.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Both RV32 and RV64 should have the same libm-test-ulps, so consolidate
them into a single file.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
QEMU does not support support set_robust_list. Thus, we need
to enable detection of set_robust_list system call.
Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
It avoid a possible compiler warning where right size of operator
is converted from a negative value to unsigned.
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
A new internal definition, __LIBC_LOCK_ALIGNMENT, is used to force
the 4-byte alignment only for m68k, other architecture keep the
natural alignment of the type used internally (and hppa does not
require 16-byte alignment for kernel-assisted CAS).
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
POSIX does not say this value is special. For example, old XFS file
systems may still use inode number zero.
Also update the comment regarding ENOENT. Linux may return ENOENT
for some file systems.
Non-at functions can be implemented by just calling the corresponding at
function with AT_FDCWD and zero at_flags.
In the linkat case, the at behavior is different (O_NOLINK), so this introduces
__linkat_common to pass O_NOLINK as appropriate.
lstat functions can also be implemented with fstatat by adding
__fstatat64_common which takes a flags parameter in addition to the at_flags
parameter,
In the end this factorizes chmod, chown, link, lstat64, mkdir, readlink,
rename, stat64, symlink, unlink, utimes.
This also makes __lstat, __lxstat64, __stat and __xstat64 directly use
__fstatat64_common instead of __lstat64 or __stat64.
__syscall_error may end up farther than 1MiB away from a caller,
especially when linking statically large binaries. tail allows for
4GiB jumps and is reduced to j when a linked symbol is within range.
Fixes: 36960f0c76 ("RISC-V: Linux Syscall Interface")
Fixes: 7f33b09c65 ("RISC-V: Linux ABI")
Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com>
9e5c991106 ("hurd: Fix readlink() hanging on fifo") separated opening
the file for the stat call from opening the file for the read call. That
however opened a small window for the file to change. Better make this
atomic by reopening the file with O_READ.
readlink() opens the target with O_READ to be able to read the symlink
content. When the target is actually a fifo, that would hang waiting for a
writer (caught in the coreutils testsuite). We thus have to first lookup the
target without O_READ to perform io_stat and lookout for fifos, and only
after checking the symlink type, we can re-lookup with O_READ.
Replace the 3 uses of atomic_bit_set and atomic_bit_test_set with
atomic_fetch_or_relaxed. Using relaxed MO is correct since the
atomics are used to ensure memory is released only once.
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Some architectures (mips, powerpc and sparc) define separate values for
EDEADLOCK and EDEADLK. Readd the errlist entry for EDEADLOCK for those
configurations. Also use the dependency files from generating the
auxiliary errlist and siglist files.
C2x makes static_assert and thread_local into keywords, removing the
definitions as macros in assert.h and threads.h. Thus, disable those
macros in those glibc headers for C2x.
The disabling is done based on a combination of language version and
__GNUC_PREREQ, *not* based on __GLIBC_USE (ISOC2X), on the principle
that users of the header (when requesting C11 or later APIs - not
assert.h for C99 and older API versions) should always have the names
static_assert or thread_local available after inclusion of the header,
whether as a keyword or as a macro. Thus, when using a compiler
without the keywords (whether an older compiler, possibly in C2x mode,
or _GNU_SOURCE with any compiler but in an older language mode, for
example) the macros should be defined, even when C2x APIs have been
requested. The __GNUC_PREREQ conditionals here may well need updating
with the versions of other compilers that gained support for these
keywords in C2x mode.
Tested for x86_64.
Not all compilers support the inline asm prefix '%v' to emit the avx
instruction if AVX is enable. Use a prefix instead.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-linux-gnu.
It avoids the possible warning of uninitialized 'frame' variable when
building with clang:
../sysdeps/nptl/jmp-unwind.c:27:42: error: variable 'frame' is
uninitialized when used here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized]
__pthread_cleanup_upto (env->__jmpbuf, CURRENT_STACK_FRAME);
The resulting code is similar to CURRENT_STACK_FRAME.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
On s390x syscalls are triggered by svc instruction. One can
pass the syscall number encoded in the instruction "svc 123"
or by storing it in r1:
lghi r1,123
svc 0
If the syscall number is encoded in the instruction, this can
cause broken syscall restarts. Therefore this patch is now just
passing the syscall number in r1.
See also kernel-commit:
"s390/signal: switch to using vdso for sigreturn and syscall restart"
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/s390/[%e2%80%a6]call.c?h=v6.0-rc1&id=df29a7440c4b5c65765c8f60396b3b13063e24e9
As information, the "svc 0" feature was introduced in kernel 2.5.62:
commit b5aad611393ef2e132e3648fa4c6e56a9cfa8708
GCC 13 compiles these built-ins to {fmax,fmin}.{s/d} instruction, use
them instead of the generic implementation.
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/r13-2085
Signed-off-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
We should default to the larger code model, in order to support
larger applications built with -static -pie. This should be
consistent with pic-ccflag, which defaults to -fPIC.
Remove the now redundant override from sysdeps/sparc/Makefile.
Note that -fno-pie and -fno-PIE have the same effect.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
In gnumach, 3e1702a65fb3 ("add rpc_versions for vm types") changed the type
of vm_size_t, making it always a unsigned long. This made it incompatible on
x86 with size_t. Even if we may want to revert it to unsigned int, it's
better to fix the types of parameters according to the .defs files.
posix advises to have strerror_r fill a message even when we are returning
an error.
This makes mach's xpg_strerror_r do this, like the generic version does.
Spotted by the libunistring testsuite test-strerror_r
08d2024b41 ("string: Simplify strerror_r") inadvertently made
__strerror_r print unknown error system in decimal while the original
code was printing it in hexadecimal. perror was kept printing in
hexadecimal in 725eeb4af1 ("string: Use tls-internal on strerror_l"),
let us keep both coherent.
This also fixes a duplicate ':'
Spotted by the libunistring testsuite test-perror2
The start code can get linked into dynamic linked executables where
LGPL would require shipping the source or linkable binaries when the
executable is distributed.
On some targets the license exception was missing in start.S (which
is compiled into crt1.o and Scrt1.o which may end up linked into PDE
and PIE binaries).
I did not review what other code may end up in executables, just
fixed the start.S license inconsistency across targets.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Changes to these arrays are often backported to stable releases,
but additions to these arrays shift the offsets of the following
_rltd_global_ro members, thus breaking the GLIBC_PRIVATE ABI.
Obviously, this change is itself an internal ABI break, but at least
it will avoid further ABI breaks going forward.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 6f85dbf102.
Once this change hits the release branches, it will require relinking
of all statically linked applications before static dlopen works
again, for the majority of updates on release branches: The NEWS file
is regularly updated with bug references, so the __libc_early_init
suffix changes, and static dlopen cannot find the function anymore.
While this ABI check is still technically correct (we do require
rebuilding & relinking after glibc updates to keep static dlopen
working), it is too drastic for stable release branches.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
The files NEWS, include/link.h, and sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
contribute to the version fingerprint used for detection. The
fingerprint can be further refined using the --with-extra-version-id
configure argument.
_dl_call_libc_early_init is replaced with _dl_lookup_libc_early_init.
The new function is used store a pointer to libc.so's
__libc_early_init function in the libc_map_early_init member of the
ld.so namespace structure. This function pointer can then be called
directly, so the separate invocation function is no longer needed.
The versioned symbol lookup needs the symbol versioning data
structures, so the initialization of libc_map and libc_map_early_init
is now done from _dl_check_map_versions, after this information
becomes available. (_dl_map_object_from_fd does not set this up
in time, so the initialization code had to be moved from there.)
This means that the separate initialization code can be removed from
dl_main because _dl_check_map_versions covers all maps, including
the initial executable loaded by the kernel. The lookup still happens
before relocation and the invocation of IFUNC resolvers, so IFUNC
resolvers are protected from ABI mismatch.
The __libc_early_init function pointer is not protected because
so little code runs between the pointer write and the invocation
(only dynamic linker code and IFUNC resolvers).
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
* posix/getopt.c (_getopt_initialize):
* sysdeps/posix/tempname.c (try_dir, try_nocreate):
Put _GL_UNUSED before args instead of after.
This makes no difference for glibc.
It is needed for Gnulib when being compiled on
non-GCC C23 compilers.
gcc introduces gs:0x14 accesses in most functions, so we need some tcbhead
to be ready very early during initialization. This configures a static area
which can be referenced by various protected functions, until proper TLS is
set up.
Linux 5.19 adds more HWCAP2_* values for AArch64; add these to its
bits/hwcap.h header in glibc.
Tested with build-many-glibcs.py for aarch64-linux-gnu.
Linux 5.19 adds a new accounting flag AGROUP; add it to the
enumeration in sys/acct.h.
This shows up that the Alpha-specific variant of this header has a
different set of constants and struct acct, which appear to be the
constants and structure layout from Linux 2.0. These were changed
some time between Linux 2.0 and Linux 2.2; I see no evidence of an
Alpha-specific layout or set of constants, but haven't checked the
detailed Linux kernel history between those versions. Rather, it
looks like tha Alpha-specific header was originally needed because of
the use of types in the kernel structure (such as uid_t and gid_t)
that had different sizes on Alpha, and when glibc was updated for
changes to the structure and constants in the kernel
1998-10-02 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/acct.h: Bring in sync with current
linux 2.1 version.
that simply omitted to do anything about the Alpha version.
Thus, remove the Alpha version in order to get the updated definitions
into use on Alpha, as I don't think the interfaces are actually
different for Alpha with any kernel version supported by glibc.
Tested for x86_64, and with build-many-glibcs.py for alpha-linux-gnu.
The kernel special-cases the zero argument for alpha brk, and we can
use that to restore the generic Linux error handling behavior.
Fixes commit b57ab258c1 ("Linux:
Introduce __brk_call for invoking the brk system call").
We do not have a hurd data block only when bootstrapping the system, in
which case we don't have a notion of suid yet anyway.
This is needed, otherwise init_standard_fds would check that standard
file descriptors are allocated, which is meaningless during bootstrap.
If the architecture level set is high enough, no IFUNCs are used at
all and the variable i would be unused. Then the build fails with:
../sysdeps/s390/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c: In function ‘__libc_ifunc_impl_list’:
../sysdeps/s390/multiarch/ifunc-impl-list.c:76:10: error: unused variable ‘i’ [-Werror=unused-variable]
76 | size_t i = max;
| ^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64 and ppc64el with gcc 12 and -O3,
because code inside a block guarded by SET_RESTORE_ROUNDL is being moved
after the rounding mode has been restored. Use math_force_eval to
prevent this (and insert some math_opt_barrier calls to prevent code
from being moved before the rounding mode is set).
Fixes#29463
Reviewed-By: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>
The #ifdef FSOPEN_CLOEXEC check did not work because the macro
was always defined in this header prior to the check, so that
the <linux/mount.h> contents did not matter.
Fixes commit 774058d729
("linux: Fix sys/mount.h usage with kernel headers").
I.e. from sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/in.h to netinet/in.h
It is following both the BSD and Linux definitions.
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Now that kernel exports linux/mount.h and includes it on linux/fs.h,
its definitions might clash with glibc exports sys/mount.h. To avoid
the need to rearrange the Linux header to be always after glibc one,
the glibc sys/mount.h is changed to:
1. Undefine the macros also used as enum constants. This covers prior
inclusion of <linux/mount.h> (for instance MS_RDONLY).
2. Include <linux/mount.h> based on the usual __has_include check
(needs to use __has_include ("linux/mount.h") to paper over GCC
bugs.
3. Define enum fsconfig_command only if FSOPEN_CLOEXEC is not defined.
(FSOPEN_CLOEXEC should be a very close proxy.)
4. Define struct mount_attr if MOUNT_ATTR_SIZE_VER0 is not defined.
(Added in the same commit on the Linux side.)
This patch also adds some tests to check if including linux/fs.h and
linux/mount.h after and before sys/mount.h does work.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Improve performance of recursive IO locks by adding a fast path for
the single-threaded case. To reduce the number of memory accesses for
locking/unlocking, only increment the recursion counter if the lock
is already taken.
On Neoverse V1, a microbenchmark with many small freads improved by
2.9x. Multithreaded performance improved by 2%.
Reviewed-by: Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org>
So far this test checks if pidfd_open-syscall is supported,
which was introduced with linux 5.3.
The process_madvise-syscall was introduced with linux 5.10.
Thus you'll get FAILs if you are running a kernel in between.
This patch adds a check if the first process_madvise-syscall
returns ENOSYS and in this case will fail with UNSUPPORTED.
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
`#ifndef STPCPY` is incorrect for checking if `STRCPY` is already
defined. It doesn't end up mattering as the whole check is
guarded by `#if IS_IN (libc)` but is incorrect none the less.
Similar to 6720d36b66 for x86-64.
Clang cannot assemble movzx in the AT&T dialect mode. Change movzx to
movzbl, which follows the AT&T dialect and is used elsewhere in the
file.
The older libc versions are obsolete for over twenty years now.
This patch removes the special flags for libc5 and libc4 and assumes
that all libraries cached are libc6 compatible and use FLAG_ELF_LIBC6.
Checked with a build for all affected architectures.
Co-authored-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
exit only terminates the current thread, not the whole process, so it
is the wrong fallback system call in this context. All supported
Linux versions implement the exit_group system call anyway.
This patch updates the kernel version in the tests tst-mman-consts.py,
tst-mount-consts.py and tst-pidfd-consts.py to 5.18. (There are no
new constants covered by these tests in 5.19, or in 5.17 or 5.18 in
the case of tst-mount-consts.py that previously used version 5.16,
that need any other header changes.)
Tested with build-many-glibcs.py.
__pthread_sigmask cannot actually fail with valid pointer arguments
(it would need a really broken seccomp filter), and we do not check
for errors elsewhere.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Since commit ec2c1fcefb ("malloc:
Abort on heap corruption, without a backtrace [BZ #21754]"),
__libc_message always terminates the process. Since commit
a289ea09ea ("Do not print backtraces
on fatal glibc errors"), the backtrace facility has been removed.
Therefore, remove enum __libc_message_action and the action
argument of __libc_message, and mark __libc_message as _No_return.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Linux 5.19 has no new syscalls, but enables memfd_secret in the uapi
headers for RISC-V. Update the version number in syscall-names.list
to reflect that it is still current for 5.19 and regenerate the
arch-syscall.h headers with build-many-glibcs.py update-syscalls.
Tested with build-many-glibcs.py.
The inline and library functions that the CMSG_NXTHDR macro may expand
to increment the pointer to the header before checking the stride of
the increment against available space. Since C only allows incrementing
pointers to one past the end of an array, the increment must be done
after a length check. This commit fixes that and includes a regression
test for CMSG_FIRSTHDR and CMSG_NXTHDR.
The Linux, Hurd, and generic headers are all changed.
Tested on Linux on armv7hl, i686, x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x.
[BZ #28846]
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
pidfd_getfd can fail for a valid pidfd with errno EPERM for various
reasons in a restricted environment. Use FAIL_UNSUPPORTED in that case.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Rather than buffering 16 MiB of entropy in userspace (by way of
chacha20), simply call getrandom() every time.
This approach is doubtlessly slower, for now, but trying to prematurely
optimize arc4random appears to be leading toward all sorts of nasty
properties and gotchas. Instead, this patch takes a much more
conservative approach. The interface is added as a basic loop wrapper
around getrandom(), and then later, the kernel and libc together can
work together on optimizing that.
This prevents numerous issues in which userspace is unaware of when it
really must throw away its buffer, since we avoid buffering all
together. Future improvements may include userspace learning more from
the kernel about when to do that, which might make these sorts of
chacha20-based optimizations more possible. The current heuristic of 16
MiB is meaningless garbage that doesn't correspond to anything the
kernel might know about. So for now, let's just do something
conservative that we know is correct and won't lead to cryptographic
issues for users of this function.
This patch might be considered along the lines of, "optimization is the
root of all evil," in that the much more complex implementation it
replaces moves too fast without considering security implications,
whereas the incremental approach done here is a much safer way of going
about things. Once this lands, we can take our time in optimizing this
properly using new interplay between the kernel and userspace.
getrandom(0) is used, since that's the one that ensures the bytes
returned are cryptographically secure. But on systems without it, we
fallback to using /dev/urandom. This is unfortunate because it means
opening a file descriptor, but there's not much of a choice. Secondly,
as part of the fallback, in order to get more or less the same
properties of getrandom(0), we poll on /dev/random, and if the poll
succeeds at least once, then we assume the RNG is initialized. This is a
rough approximation, as the ancient "non-blocking pool" initialized
after the "blocking pool", not before, and it may not port back to all
ancient kernels, though it does to all kernels supported by glibc
(≥3.2), so generally it's the best approximation we can do.
The motivation for including arc4random, in the first place, is to have
source-level compatibility with existing code. That means this patch
doesn't attempt to litigate the interface itself. It does, however,
choose a conservative approach for implementing it.
Cc: Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Mark Harris <mark.hsj@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
