The tunable privilege levels were a retrofit to try and keep the malloc
tunable environment variables' behavior unchanged across security
boundaries. However, CVE-2023-4911 shows how tricky can be
tunable parsing in a security-sensitive environment.
Not only parsing, but the malloc tunable essentially changes some
semantics on setuid/setgid processes. Although it is not a direct
security issue, allowing users to change setuid/setgid semantics is not
a good security practice, and requires extra code and analysis to check
if each tunable is safe to use on all security boundaries.
It also means that security opt-in features, like aarch64 MTE, would
need to be explicit enabled by an administrator with a wrapper script
or with a possible future system-wide tunable setting.
Co-authored-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Since malloc debug support moved to a different library
(libc_malloc_debug.so), the glibc.malloc.check requires preloading the
debug library to enable it. It means that suid-debug support has not
been working since 2.34.
To restore its support, it would require to add additional information
and parsing to where to find libc_malloc_debug.so.
It is one thing less that might change AT_SECURE binaries' behavior
due to environment configurations.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Remove the unused 'char *name;' from the example.
Use write instead of putchar to write input as it is read.
Example tested on x86_64 by compiling and running the example.
Tested by building the manual pdf and reviewing the results.
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
The latest implementations of memcpy are actually faster than the Falkor
implementations [1], so remove the falkor/phecda ifuncs for memcpy and
the now unused IS_FALKOR/IS_PHECDA defines.
[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-December/144227.html
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
The PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME support is only enabled through a configurable
kernel switch, mainly because assigning a name to a
anonymous virtual memory area might prevent that area from being
merged with adjacent virtual memory areas.
For instance, with the following code:
void *p1 = mmap (NULL,
1024 * 4096,
PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1,
0);
void *p2 = mmap (p1 + (1024 * 4096),
1024 * 4096,
PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1,
0);
The kernel will potentially merge both mappings resulting in only one
segment of size 0x800000. If the segment is names with
PR_SET_VMA_ANON_NAME with different names, it results in two mappings.
Although this will unlikely be an issue for pthread stacks and malloc
arenas (since for pthread stacks the guard page will result in
a PROT_NONE segment, similar to the alignment requirement for the arena
block), it still might prevent the mmap memory allocated for detail
malloc.
There is also another potential scalability issue, where the prctl
requires
to take the mmap global lock which is still not fully fixed in Linux
[1] (for pthread stacks and arenas, it is mitigated by the stack
cached and the arena reuse).
So this patch disables anonymous mapping annotations as default and
add a new tunable, glibc.mem.decorate_maps, can be used to enable
it.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/906852/
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and aarch64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
This patch removes the mergesort optimization on qsort implementation
and uses the introsort instead. The mergesort implementation has some
issues:
- It is as-safe only for certain types sizes (if total size is less
than 1 KB with large element sizes also forcing memory allocation)
which contradicts the function documentation. Although not required
by the C standard, it is preferable and doable to have an O(1) space
implementation.
- The malloc for certain element size and element number adds
arbitrary latency (might even be worse if malloc is interposed).
- To avoid trigger swap from memory allocation the implementation
relies on system information that might be virtualized (for instance
VMs with overcommit memory) which might lead to potentially use of
swap even if system advertise more memory than actually has. The
check also have the downside of issuing syscalls where none is
expected (although only once per execution).
- The mergesort is suboptimal on an already sorted array (BZ#21719).
The introsort implementation is already optimized to use constant extra
space (due to the limit of total number of elements from maximum VM
size) and thus can be used to avoid the malloc usage issues.
Resulting performance is slower due the usage of qsort, specially in the
worst-case scenario (partialy or sorted arrays) and due the fact
mergesort uses a slight improved swap operations.
This change also renders the BZ#21719 fix unrequired (since it is meant
to fix the sorted input performance degradation for mergesort). The
manual is also updated to indicate the function is now async-cancel
safe.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
Reviewed-by: Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>
All the crypt related functions, cryptographic algorithms, and
make requirements are removed, with only the exception of md5
implementation which is moved to locale folder since it is
required by localedef for integrity protection (libc's
locale-reading code does not check these, but localedef does
generate them).
Besides thec code itself, both internal documentation and the
manual is also adjusted. This allows to remove both --enable-crypt
and --enable-nss-crypt configure options.
Checked with a build for all affected ABIs.
Co-authored-by: Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
This commit add support for the new AVX10 cpu features:
https://cdrdv2-public.intel.com/784267/355989-intel-avx10-spec.pdf
We add checks for:
- `AVX10`: Check if AVX10 is present.
- `AVX10_{X,Y,Z}MM`: Check if a given vec class has AVX10 support.
`make check` passes and cpuid output was checked against GNR/DMR on an
emulator.
ISO C2x defines scanf length modifiers wN (for intN_t / int_leastN_t /
uintN_t / uint_leastN_t) and wfN (for int_fastN_t / uint_fastN_t).
Add support for those length modifiers, similar to the printf support
previously added.
Tested for x86_64 and x86.
And shorten the section/node names a bit, so that the menu
entries become easier to read.
Texinfo 6.5 fails to process the previous structure:
./dynlink.texi:56: warning: node `Dynamic Linker Introspection' is
next for `Dynamic Linker Diagnostics' in sectioning but not in menu
./dynlink.texi:56: warning: node up `Dynamic Linker Diagnostics'
in menu `Dynamic Linker Invocation' and
in sectioning `Dynamic Linker' differ
./dynlink.texi:1: node `Dynamic Linker' lacks menu item for
`Dynamic Linker Diagnostics' despite being its Up target
./dynlink.texi:226: warning: node prev `Dynamic Linker Introspection' in menu `Dynamic Linker Invocation'
and in sectioning `Dynamic Linker Diagnostics' differ
Texinfo 7.0.2 does not report an error.
This fixes commit f21962ddfc
("manual: Document ld.so --list-diagnostics output").
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
This interface allows to obtain the associated process ID from the
process file descriptor. It is done by parsing the procps fdinfo
information. Its prototype is:
pid_t pidfd_getpid (int fd)
It returns the associated pid or -1 in case of an error and sets the
errno accordingly. The possible errno values are those from open, read,
and close (used on procps parsing), along with:
- EBADF if the FD is negative, does not have a PID associated, or if
the fdinfo fields contain a value larger than pid_t.
- EREMOTE if the PID is in a separate namespace.
- ESRCH if the process is already terminated.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu on Linux 4.15 (no CLONE_PIDFD or waitid
support), Linux 5.4 (full support), and Linux 6.2.
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Returning a pidfd allows a process to keep a race-free handle for a
child process, otherwise, the caller will need to either use pidfd_open
(which still might be subject to TOCTOU) or keep the old racy interface
base on pid_t.
To correct use pifd_spawn, the kernel must support not only returning
the pidfd with clone/clone3 but also waitid (P_PIDFD) (added on Linux
5.4). If kernel does not support the waitid, pidfd return ENOSYS.
It avoids the need to racy workarounds, such as reading the procfs
fdinfo to get the pid to use along with other wait interfaces.
These interfaces are similar to the posix_spawn and posix_spawnp, with
the only difference being it returns a process file descriptor (int)
instead of a process ID (pid_t). Their prototypes are:
int pidfd_spawn (int *restrict pidfd,
const char *restrict file,
const posix_spawn_file_actions_t *restrict facts,
const posix_spawnattr_t *restrict attrp,
char *const argv[restrict],
char *const envp[restrict])
int pidfd_spawnp (int *restrict pidfd,
const char *restrict path,
const posix_spawn_file_actions_t *restrict facts,
const posix_spawnattr_t *restrict attrp,
char *const argv[restrict_arr],
char *const envp[restrict_arr]);
A new symbol is used instead of a posix_spawn extension to avoid
possible issues with language bindings that might track the return
argument lifetime. Although on Linux pid_t and int are interchangeable,
POSIX only states that pid_t should be a signed integer.
Both symbols reuse the posix_spawn posix_spawn_file_actions_t and
posix_spawnattr_t, to void rehash posix_spawn API or add a new one. It
also means that both interfaces support the same attribute and file
actions, and a new flag or file action on posix_spawn is also added
automatically for pidfd_spawn.
Also, using posix_spawn plumbing allows the reusing of most of the
current testing with some changes:
- waitid is used instead of waitpid since it is a more generic
interface.
- tst-posix_spawn-setsid.c is adapted to take into consideration that
the caller can check for session id directly. The test now spawns
itself and writes the session id as a file instead.
- tst-spawn3.c need to know where pidfd_spawn is used so it keeps an
extra file description unused.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu on Linux 4.15 (no CLONE_PIDFD or waitid
support), Linux 5.4 (full support), and Linux 6.2.
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Parts of elf/tst-rtld-list-diagnostics.py have been copied from
scripts/tst-ld-trace.py.
The abnf module is entirely optional and used to verify the
ABNF grammar as included in the manual.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
This patch enables the option to influence hwcaps used by PowerPC.
The environment variable, GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.hwcaps=-xxx,yyy,-zzz....,
can be used to enable CPU/ARCH feature yyy, disable CPU/ARCH feature xxx
and zzz, where the feature name is case-sensitive and has to match the ones
mentioned in the file{sysdeps/powerpc/dl-procinfo.c}.
Note that the hwcap tunables only used in the IFUNC selection.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
We mentioned eventual dropping of libcrypt in the 2.28 NEWS. Actually
put that plan in motion by first disabling building libcrypt by default.
note in NEWS that the library will be dropped completely in a future
release.
Also add a couple of builds into build-many-glibcs.py.
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reviewed-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
Bump autoconf requirement to 2.71 to allow regenerating configure on
more recent distributions. autoconf 2.71 has been in Fedora since F36
and is the current version in Debian stable (bookworm). It appears to
be current in Gentoo as well.
All sysdeps configure and preconfigure scripts have also been
regenerated; all changes are trivial transformations that do not affect
functionality.
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Add --enable-fortify-source option.
It is now possible to enable fortification through a configure option.
The level may be given as parameter, if none is provided, the configure
script will determine what is the highest level possible that can be set
considering GCC built-ins availability and set it.
If level is explicitly set to 3, configure checks if the compiler
supports the built-in function necessary for it or raise an error if it
isn't.
If the configure option isn't explicitly enabled, it _FORTIFY_SOURCE is
forcibly undefined (and therefore disabled).
The result of the configure checks are new variables, ${fortify_source}
and ${no_fortify_source} that can be used to appropriately populate
CFLAGS.
A dedicated patch will follow to make use of this variable in Makefiles
when necessary.
Updated NEWS and INSTALL.
Adding dedicated x86_64 variant that enables the configuration.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
The current implementation of strerror is thread-safe, but this
has implications for the lifetime of the return string.
Describe the strerror_l function. Describe both variants of the
strerror_r function. Mention the lifetime of the returned string
for strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np. Clarify that perror
output depends on the current locale.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Describe the problems with signed characters, and the glibc extension
to deal with most of them. Mention that the is* functions return
zero for the special argument EOF.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
In documentation, call strings like "CST" time zone abbreviations, not
time zone names. This terminology is more precise, and is what tzdb uses.
A string like "CST" is ambiguous and does not fully name a time zone.
ISO C2x defines scanf %b for input of binary integers (with an
optional 0b or 0B prefix). Implement such support, along with the
corresponding SCNb* macros in <inttypes.h>. Unlike the support for
binary integers with 0b or 0B prefix with scanf %i, this is supported
in all versions of scanf (independent of the standards mode used for
compilation), because there are no backwards compatibility concerns
(%b wasn't previously a supported format) the way there were for %i.
Tested for x86_64 and x86.
ISO C2x defines printf length modifiers wN (for intN_t / int_leastN_t
/ uintN_t / uint_leastN_t) and wfN (for int_fastN_t / uint_fastN_t).
Add support for those length modifiers (such a feature was previously
requested in bug 24466). scanf support is to be added separately.
GCC 13 has format checking support for these modifiers.
When used with the support for registering format specifiers, these
modifiers are translated to existing flags in struct printf_info,
rather than trying to add some way of distinguishing them without
breaking the printf_info ABI. C2x requires an error to be returned
for unsupported values of N; this is implemented for printf-family
functions, but the parse_printf_format interface doesn't support error
returns, so such an error gets discarded by that function.
Tested for x86_64 and x86.
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>
The argument to @deftypefun must be on a single line.
Also add the missing @safety for sem_clockwait.
Reported-by: Nilgün Belma Bugüner <nillguine@gmail.com>
This patch enables libmvec on AArch64. The proposed change is mainly
implementing build infrastructure to add the new routines to ABI,
tests and benchmarks. I have demonstrated how this all fits together
by adding implementations for vector cos, in both single and double
precision, targeting both Advanced SIMD and SVE.
The implementations of the routines themselves are just loops over the
scalar routine from libm for now, as we are more concerned with
getting the plumbing right at this point. We plan to contribute vector
routines from the Arm Optimized Routines repo that are compliant with
requirements described in the libmvec wiki.
Building libmvec requires minimum GCC 10 for SVE ACLE. To avoid raising
the minimum GCC by such a big jump, we allow users to disable libmvec
if their compiler is too old.
Note that at this point users have to manually call the vector math
functions. This seems to be acceptable to some downstream users.
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
In some cases, we do not want to go through the resolver for function
calls. For example, functions with vector arguments will use vector
registers to pass arguments. In the resolver, we do not save/restore the
vector argument registers for lazy binding efficiency. To avoid ruining
the vector arguments, functions with vector arguments will not go
through the resolver.
To achieve the goal, we will annotate the function symbols with
STO_RISCV_VARIANT_CC flag and add DT_RISCV_VARIANT_CC tag in the dynamic
section. In the first pass on PLT relocations, we do not set up to call
_dl_runtime_resolve. Instead, we resolve the functions directly.
Signed-off-by: Hsiangkai Wang <kai.wang@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/20230314162512.35802-1-kito.cheng@sifive.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
State that getpt is similar to posix_openpt. Use posix_openpt
instead of getpt in example.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Created tunable glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb to control when hugepages
can be used for stack allocation.
In case THP are enabled and glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb is set to
0, glibc will madvise the kernel not to use allow hugepages for stack
allocations.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
* manual/string.texi (Truncating Strings): Update obsolescent
reference and use the more-generic term “AddressSanitizer”.
Mention fortification, too. -fcheck-pointer-bounds is no longer
supported.
* manual/string.texi: Editorial fixes. Do not say “text” when
“string” or “string contents” is meant, as a C string can contain
bytes that are not valid text in the current encoding.
When warning about strcat efficiency, warn similarly about strncat
and wcscat. “coping” → “copying”.
Mention at the start of the two problematic sections that problems
are discussed at section end.
