The end of the "Parsing of Floats" subsection currently reads:
The GNU C Library also provides '_l' versions of these functions,
which take an additional argument, the locale to use in conversion.
*Note Parsing of Integers::.
Split the final note as it is unrelated to the above comment and
reference it with "See also" instead.
The pt-chown binary is discussed in the "Running make install" section
without clarification of the needed configure option. Clarify this
and simplfy the discription which is already covered in the "Configuring
and compiling" section.
Resolves#15921
The test case nptl/tst-cleanup2 fails on s390x and power6 due to
instruction sheduling in gcc. This was reported in gcc:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58034
but it was concluded that gcc is allowed to assume that the first
argument to sprintf is a character array - NULL not being a valid
character array.
The mov lr, pc instruction will lose the Thumb bit from the return address
so use blx lr instead.
ports/ChangeLog.arm:
2013-08-30 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
[BZ #15909]
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/clone.S (__clone): Use blx
instead of mov lr, pc.
Since the dlopen funcs might invoke a constructor that calls a func
that is in the same compilation unit as the caller, we cannot mark
them as leaf funcs.
Similarly, dlclose might invoke a destructor that calls a func that
is in the same compilation unit as the caller.
URL: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15897
Reportedy-by: Fabrice Bauzac <libnoon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
The helper binary pt_chown tricked into granting access to another
user's pseudo-terminal.
Pre-conditions for the attack:
* Attacker with local user account
* Kernel with FUSE support
* "user_allow_other" in /etc/fuse.conf
* Victim with allocated slave in /dev/pts
Using the setuid installed pt_chown and a weak check on whether a file
descriptor is a tty, an attacker could fake a pty check using FUSE and
trick pt_chown to grant ownership of a pty descriptor that the current
user does not own. It cannot access /dev/pts/ptmx however.
In most modern distributions pt_chown is not needed because devpts
is enabled by default. The fix for this CVE is to disable building
and using pt_chown by default. We still provide a configure option
to enable hte use of pt_chown but distributions do so at their own
risk.
The generated header is compiled with `-ffreestanding' to avoid any
circular dependencies against the installed implementation headers.
Such a dependency would require the implementation header to be
installed before the generated header could be built (See bug 15711).
In current practice the generated header dependencies do not include
any of the implementation headers removed by the use of `-ffreestanding'.
---
2013-07-15 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
[BZ #15711]
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Makefile ($(objpfx)bits/syscall%h):
Avoid system header dependency with -ffreestanding.
($(objpfx)bits/syscall%d): Likewise.
This change creates a link map in static executables to serve as the
global search list for dlopen. It fixes a problem with the inability
to access the global symbol object and a crash on an attempt to map a
DSO into the global scope. Some code that has become dead after the
addition of this link map is removed too and test cases are provided.
Many Linux arches require fixed mmaps to be aligned higher than pagesize,
so use the SHMLBA define as it represents this quantity exactly.
This fixes spurious errors seen on those arches like:
cannot map archive header: Invalid argument
URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10283
Reported-by: CHIKAMA Masaki <masaki.chikama@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Static applications that call pthread_exit on the main
thread segfault. This is because after a thread terminates
__libc_start_main decrements __nptl_nthreads which is only
defined in pthread_create. Therefore the right solution is
to add a requirement to pthread_create from pthread_exit.
~~~
nptl/
2013-06-24 Vladimir Nikulichev <v.nikulichev@gmail.com>
[BZ #12310]
* pthread_exit.c: Add reference to pthread_create.
