musl - musl - an implementation of the standard library for Linux-based systems

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2021-01-30	oldmalloc: preserve errno across free	Rich Felker	-0/+4
	as an outcome of Austin Group issue #385, future versions of the standard will require free not to alter the value of errno. save and restore it individually around the calls to madvise and munmap so that the cost is not imposed on calls to free that do not result in any syscall.
2021-01-30	fix build regression in oldmalloc	Rich Felker	-1/+1
	commit 8d37958d58cf36f53d5fcc7a8aa6d633da6071b2 inadvertently broke oldmalloc by having it implement __libc_malloc rather than __libc_malloc_impl.
2020-11-11	lift child restrictions after multi-threaded fork	Rich Felker	-0/+19
	as the outcome of Austin Group tracker issue #62, future editions of POSIX have dropped the requirement that fork be AS-safe. this allows but does not require implementations to synchronize fork with internal locks and give forked children of multithreaded parents a partly or fully unrestricted execution environment where they can continue to use the standard library (per POSIX, they can only portably use AS-safe functions). up until recently, taking this allowance did not seem desirable. however, commit 8ed2bd8bfcb4ea6448afb55a941f4b5b2b0398c0 exposed the extent to which applications and libraries are depending on the ability to use malloc and other non-AS-safe interfaces in MT-forked children, by converting latent very-low-probability catastrophic state corruption into predictable deadlock. dealing with the fallout has been a huge burden for users/distros. while it looks like most of the non-portable usage in applications could be fixed given sufficient effort, at least some of it seems to occur in language runtimes which are exposing the ability to run unrestricted code in the child as part of the contract with the programmer. any attempt at fixing such contracts is not just a technical problem but a social one, and is probably not tractable. this patch extends the fork function to take locks for all libc singletons in the parent, and release or reset those locks in the child, so that when the underlying fork operation takes place, the state protected by these locks is consistent and ready for the child to use. locking is skipped in the case where the parent is single-threaded so as not to interfere with legacy AS-safety property of fork in single-threaded programs. lock order is mostly arbitrary, but the malloc locks (including bump allocator in case it's used) must be taken after the locks on any subsystems that might use malloc, and non-AS-safe locks cannot be taken while the thread list lock is held, imposing a requirement that it be taken last.
2020-11-11	give libc access to its own malloc even if public malloc is interposed	Rich Felker	-0/+4
	allowing the application to replace malloc (since commit c9f415d7ea2dace5bf77f6518b6afc36bb7a5732) has brought multiple headaches where it's used from various critical sections in libc components. for example: - the thread-local message buffers allocated for dlerror can't be freed at thread exit time because application code would then run in the context of a non-existant thread. this was handled in commit aa5a9d15e09851f7b4a1668e9dbde0f6234abada by queuing them for free later. - the dynamic linker has to be careful not to pass memory allocated at early startup time (necessarily using its own malloc) to realloc or free after redoing relocations with the application and all libraries present. bugs in this area were fixed several times, at least in commits 0c5c8f5da6e36fe4ab704bee0cd981837859e23f and 2f1f51ae7b2d78247568e7fdb8462f3c19e469a4 and possibly others. - by calling the allocator from contexts where libc-internal locks are held, we impose undocumented requirements on alternate malloc implementations not to call into any libc function that might attempt to take these locks; if they do, deadlock results. - work to make fork of a multithreaded parent give the child an unrestricted execution environment is blocked by lock order issues as long as the application-provided allocator can be called with libc-internal locks held. these problems are all fixed by giving libc internals access to the original, non-replaced allocator, for use where needed. it can't be used everywhere, as some interfaces like str[n]dup, open_[w]memstream, getline/getdelim, etc. are required to provide the called memory obtained as if by (the public) malloc. and there are a number of libc interfaces that are "pure library" code, not part of some internal singleton, and where using the application's choice of malloc implementation is preferable -- things like glob, regex, etc. one might expect there to be significant cost to static-linked programs, pulling in two malloc implementations, one of them mostly-unused, if malloc is replaced. however, in almost all of the places where malloc is used internally, care has been taken already not to pull in realloc/free (i.e. to link with just the bump allocator). this size optimization carries over automatically. the newly-exposed internal allocator functions are obtained by renaming the actual definitions, then adding new wrappers around them with the public names. technically __libc_realloc and __libc_free could be aliases rather than needing a layer of wrapper, but this would almost surely break certain instrumentation (valgrind) and the size and performance difference is negligible. __libc_calloc needs to be handled specially since calloc is designed to work with either the internal or the replaced malloc. as a bonus, this change also eliminates the longstanding ugly dependency of the static bump allocator on order of object files in libc.a, by making it so there's only one definition of the malloc function and having it in the same source file as the bump allocator.
2020-06-16	only use memcpy realloc to shrink if an exact-sized free chunk exists	Rich Felker	-0/+12
	otherwise, shrink in-place. as explained in the description of commit 3e16313f8fe2ed143ae0267fd79d63014c24779f, the split here is valid without holding split_merge_lock because all chunks involved are in the in-use state.
2020-06-16	fix memset overflow in oldmalloc race fix overhaul	Rich Felker	-1/+1
	commit 3e16313f8fe2ed143ae0267fd79d63014c24779f introduced this bug by making the copy case reachable with n (new size) smaller than n0 (original size). this was left as the only way of shrinking an allocation because it reduces fragmentation if a free chunk of the appropriate size is available. when that's not the case, another approach may be better, but any such improvement would be independent of fixing this bug.
2020-06-10	reintroduce calloc elison of memset for direct-mmapped allocations	Rich Felker	-0/+5
	a new weak predicate function replacable by the malloc implementation, __malloc_allzerop, is introduced. by default it's always false; the default version will be used when static linking if the bump allocator was used (in which case performance doesn't matter) or if malloc was replaced by the application. only if the real internal malloc is linked (always the case with dynamic linking) does the real version get used. if malloc was replaced dynamically, as indicated by __malloc_replaced, the predicate function is ignored and conditional-memset is always performed.
2020-06-10	move __malloc_replaced to a top-level malloc file	Rich Felker	-2/+0
	it's not part of the malloc implementation but glue with musl dynamic linker.
2020-06-10	switch to a common calloc implementation	Rich Felker	-36/+0
	abstractly, calloc is completely malloc-implementation-independent; it's malloc followed by memset, or as we do it, a "conditional memset" that avoids touching fresh zero pages. previously, calloc was kept separate for the bump allocator, which can always skip memset, and the version of calloc provided with the full malloc conditionally skipped the clearing for large direct-mmapped allocations. the latter is a moderately attractive optimization, and can be added back if needed. however, further consideration to make it correct under malloc replacement would be needed. commit b4b1e10364c8737a632be61582e05a8d3acf5690 documented the contract for malloc replacement as allowing omission of calloc, and indeed that worked for dynamic linking, but for static linking it was possible to get the non-clearing definition from the bump allocator; if not for that, it would have been a link error trying to pull in malloc.o. the conditional-clearing code for the new common calloc is taken from mal0_clear in oldmalloc, but drops the need to access actual page size and just uses a fixed value of 4096. this avoids potentially needing access to global data for the sake of an optimization that at best marginally helps archs with offensively-large page sizes.
2020-06-03	move oldmalloc to its own directory under src/malloc	Rich Felker	-0/+550
	this sets the stage for replacement, and makes it practical to keep oldmalloc around as a build option for a while if that ends up being useful. only the files which are actually part of the implementation are moved. memalign and posix_memalign are entirely generic. in theory calloc could be pulled out too, but it's useful to have it tied to the implementation so as to optimize out unnecessary memset when implementation details make it possible to know the memory is already clear.