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2015-02-26overhaul optimized x86_64 memset asmRich Felker-26/+55
on most cpu models, "rep stosq" has high overhead that makes it undesirable for small memset sizes. the new code extends the minimal-branch fast path for short memsets from size 15 up to size 126, and shrink-wraps this code path. in addition, "rep stosq" is sensitive to misalignment. the cost varies with size and with cpu model, but it has been observed performing 1.5 times slower when the destination address is not aligned mod 16. the new code thus ensures alignment mod 16, but also preserves any existing additional alignment, in case there are cpu models where it is beneficial. this version is based in part on changes proposed by Denys Vlasenko.
2015-02-26overhaul optimized i386 memset asmRich Felker-32/+61
on most cpu models, "rep stosl" has high overhead that makes it undesirable for small memset sizes. the new code extends the minimal-branch fast path for short memsets from size 15 up to size 62, and shrink-wraps this code path. in addition, "rep stosl" is very sensitive to misalignment. the cost varies with size and with cpu model, but it has been observed performing 1.5 to 4 times slower when the destination address is not aligned mod 16. the new code thus ensures alignment mod 16, but also preserves any existing additional alignment, in case there are cpu models where it is beneficial. this version is based in part on changes to the x86_64 memset asm proposed by Denys Vlasenko.
2015-02-25getloadavg: use sysinfo() instead of /proc/loadavgAlexander Monakov-11/+7
Based on a patch by Szabolcs Nagy.
2015-02-23fix possible isatty false positives and unwanted device state changesRich Felker-9/+8
the equivalent checks for newly opened stdio output streams, used to determine buffering mode, are also fixed. on most archs, the TCGETS ioctl command shares a value with SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE, part of the OSS sound API which was apparently used with certain MIDI and timer devices. for file descriptors referring to such a device, TCGETS will not fail with ENOTTY as expected; it may produce a different error, or may succeed, and if it succeeds it changes the mode of the device. while it's unlikely that such devices are in use, this is in principle very harmful behavior for an operation which is supposed to do nothing but query whether the fd refers to a tty. TIOCGWINSZ, used to query logical window size for a terminal, was chosen as an alternate ioctl to perform the isatty check. it does not share a value with any other ioctl commands, and it succeeds on any tty device. this change also cleans up strace output to be less ugly and misleading.
2015-02-23fix breakage in pthread_cond_wait due to typoRich Felker-1/+1
due to accidental use of = instead of ==, the error code was always set to zero in the signaled wake case for non-shared cv waits. suppressing ETIMEDOUT (the only possible wait error) is harmless and actually permitted in this case, but suppressing mutex errors could give the caller false information about the state of the mutex. commit 8741ffe625363a553e8f509dc3ca7b071bdbab47 introduced this regression and commit d9da1fb8c592469431c764732d09f7756340190e preserved it when reorganizing the code.
2015-02-23support alternate backends for the passwd and group dbsJosiah Worcester-2/+390
when we fail to find the entry in the commonly accepted files, we query a server over a Unix domain socket on /var/run/nscd/socket. the protocol used here is compatible with glibc's nscd protocol on most systems (all that use 32-bit numbers for all the protocol fields, which appears to be everything but Alpha).
2015-02-23fix spurious errors in refactored passwd/group codeRich Felker-2/+2
errno was treated as the error status when the return value of getline was negative, but this condition can simply indicate EOF and is not necessarily an error. the spurious errors caused by this bug masked the bug which was fixed in commit fc5a96c9c8aa186effad7520d5df6b616bbfd29d.
2015-02-23fix crashes in refactored passwd/group codeRich Felker-4/+4
the wrong condition was used in determining the presence of a result that needs space/copying for the _r functions. a zero return value does not necessarily mean success; it can also be a non-error negative result: no such user/group.
2015-02-22simplify cond var code now that cleanup handler is not neededRich Felker-86/+63
2015-02-22fix pthread_cond_wait cancellation raceRich Felker-5/+38
it's possible that signaling a waiter races with cancellation of that same waiter. previously, cancellation was acted upon, causing the signal to be consumed with no waiter returning. by using the new masked cancellation state, it's possible to refuse to act on the cancellation request and instead leave it pending. to ease review and understanding of the changes made, this commit leaves the unwait function, which was previously the cancellation cleanup handler, in place. additional simplifications could be made by removing it.
2015-02-21add new masked cancellation modeRich Felker-10/+16
this is a new extension which is presently intended only for experimental and internal libc use. interface and behavior details may change subject to feedback and experience from using it internally. the basic concept for the new PTHREAD_CANCEL_MASKED state is that the first cancellation point to observe the cancellation request fails with an errno value of ECANCELED rather than acting on cancellation, allowing the caller to process the status and choose whether/how to act upon it.
2015-02-20prepare cancellation syscall asm for possibility of __cancel returningRich Felker-11/+32
2015-02-20map interruption of close by signal to success rather than EINPROGRESSRich Felker-1/+1
commit 82dc1e2e783815e00a90cd3f681436a80d54a314 addressed the resolution of Austin Group issue 529, which requires close to leave the fd open when failing with EINTR, by returning the newly defined error code EINPROGRESS. this turns out to be a bad idea, though, since legacy applications not aware of the new specification are likely to interpret any error from close except EINTR as a hard failure.
2015-02-16make pthread_exit responsible for disabling cancellationRich Felker-3/+2
this requirement is tucked away in XSH 2.9.5 Thread Cancellation under the heading Thread Cancellation Cleanup Handlers.
2015-02-14fix type error (arch-dependent) in new aio codeRich Felker-1/+1
a_store is only valid for int, but ssize_t may be defined as long or another type. since there is no valid way for another thread to acess the return value without first checking the error/completion status of the aiocb anyway, an atomic store is not necessary.
2015-02-13refactor group file access codeJosiah Worcester-51/+71
this allows getgrnam and getgrgid to share code with the _r versions in preparation for alternate backend support.
2015-02-13overhaul aio implementation for correctnessRich Felker-193/+440
previously, aio operations were not tracked by file descriptor; each operation was completely independent. this resulted in non-conforming behavior for non-seekable/append-mode writes (which are required to be ordered) and made it impossible to implement aio_cancel, which in turn made closing file descriptors with outstanding aio operations unsafe. the new implementation is significantly heavier (roughly twice the size, and seems to be slightly slower) and presently aims mainly at correctness, not performance. most of the public interfaces have been moved into a single file, aio.c, because there is little benefit to be had from splitting them. whenever any aio functions are used, aio_cancel and the internal queue lifetime management and fd-to-queue mapping code must be linked, and these functions make up the bulk of the code size. the close function's interaction with aio is implemented with weak alias magic, to avoid pulling in heavy aio cancellation code in programs that don't use aio, and the expensive cancellation path (which includes signal blocking) is optimized out when there are no active aio queues.
2015-02-11fix bad character checking in wordexpRich Felker-0/+1
the character sequence '$((' was incorrectly interpreted as the opening of arithmetic even within single-quoted contexts, thereby suppressing the checks for bad characters after the closing quote. presently bad character checking is only performed when the WRDE_NOCMD is used; this patch only corrects checking in that case.
2015-02-10refactor passwd file access codeJosiah Worcester-49/+65
this allows getpwnam and getpwuid to share code with the _r versions in preparation for alternate backend support.
2015-02-10x86_64/memset: avoid performing final store twiceDenys Vlasenko-1/+1
The code does a potentially misaligned 8-byte store to fill the tail of the buffer. Then it fills the initial part of the buffer which is a multiple of 8 bytes. Therefore, if size is divisible by 8, we were storing last word twice. This patch decrements byte count before dividing it by 8, making one less store in "size is divisible by 8" case, and not changing anything in all other cases. All at the cost of replacing one MOV insn with LEA insn. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2015-02-10x86_64/memset: simple optimizationsDenys Vlasenko-14/+16
"and $0xff,%esi" is a six-byte insn (81 e6 ff 00 00 00), can use 4-byte "movzbl %sil,%esi" (40 0f b6 f6) instead. 64-bit imul is slow, move it as far up as possible so that the result (rax) has more time to be ready by the time we start using it in mem stores. There is no need to shuffle registers in preparation to "rep movs" if we are not going to take that code path. Thus, patch moves "jump if len < 16" instructions up, and changes alternate code path to use rdx and rdi instead of rcx and r8. Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
2015-02-10make protocol table zero byte separated and add ipv6 protocolsTimo Teräs-22/+26
2015-02-09use the internal macro name FUTEX_PRIVATE in __waitSzabolcs Nagy-1/+1
the name was recently added for the setxid/synccall rework, so use the name now that we have it.
2015-02-09add IEEE binary128 long double support to floatscanSzabolcs Nagy-1/+9
just defining the necessary constants: LD_B1B_MAX is 2^113 - 1 in base 10^9 KMAX is 2048 so the x array can hold up to 18432 decimal digits (the worst case is converting 2^-16495 = 5^16495 * 10^-16495 to binary, it requires the processing of int(log10(5)*16495)+1 = 11530 decimal digits after discarding the leading zeros, the conversion requires some headroom in x, but KMAX is more than enough for that) However this code is not optimal on archs with IEEE binary128 long double because the arithmetics is software emulated (on all such platforms as far as i know) which means big and slow strtod.
2015-02-09math: fix fmodl for IEEE binary128Szabolcs Nagy-1/+1
This trivial copy-paste bug went unnoticed due to lack of testing. No currently supported target archs are affected.
2015-02-08simplify armhf fesetenvSzabolcs Nagy-1/+0
armhf fesetenv implementation did a useless read of the fpscr.
2015-02-08fix fesetenv(FE_DFL_ENV) on mipsSzabolcs Nagy-1/+3
mips fesetenv did not handle FE_DFL_ENV, now fcsr is cleared in that case.
2015-02-08math: fix __fpclassifyl(-0.0) for IEEE binary128Szabolcs Nagy-3/+2
The sign bit was not cleared before checking for 0 so -0.0 was misclassified as FP_SUBNORMAL instead of FP_ZERO.
2015-02-08add parenthesis in fma.c to clarify intent and silence warningsSzabolcs Nagy-1/+1
2015-02-07make getaddrinfo support SOCK_RAW and other socket typesRich Felker-34/+42
all socket types are accepted at this point, but that may be changed at a later time if the behavior is not meaningful for other types. as before, omitting type (a value of 0) gives both UDP and TCP results, and SOCK_DGRAM or SOCK_STREAM restricts to UDP or TCP, respectively. for other socket types, the service name argument is required to be a null pointer, and the protocol number provided by the caller is used.
2015-02-07remove cruft from x86_64 syscall.hSzabolcs Nagy-0/+3
x86_64 syscall.h defined some musl internal syscall names and made them public. These defines were already moved to src/internal/syscall.h (except for SYS_fadvise which is added now) so the cruft in x86_64 syscall.h is not needed.
2015-02-05fix failure of fchmodat to report EOPNOTSUPP in the race pathRich Felker-2/+4
in the case where a non-symlink file was replaced by a symlink during the fchmodat operation with AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW, mode change on the new symlink target was successfully suppressed, but the error was not reported. instead, fchmodat simply returned 0.
2015-02-04fix fd leak race (missing O_CLOEXEC) in fchmodatRich Felker-1/+1
2015-02-03make execvp continue PATH search on EACCES rather than issuing an errrorRich Felker-1/+4
the specification for execvp itself is unclear as to whether encountering a file that cannot be executed due to EACCES during the PATH search is a mandatory error condition; however, XBD 8.3's specification of the PATH environment variable clarifies that the search continues until a file with "appropriate execution permissions" is found. since it seems undesirable/erroneous to report ENOENT rather than EACCES when an early path element has a non-executable file and all later path elements lack any file by the requested name, the new code stores a flag indicating that EACCES was seen and sets errno back to EACCES in this case.
2015-02-03fix missing memory barrier in cancellation signal handlerRich Felker-0/+1
in practice this was probably a non-issue, because the necessary barrier almost certainly exists in kernel space -- implementing signal delivery without such a barrier seems impossible -- but for the sake of correctness, it should be done here too. in principle, without a barrier, it is possible that the thread to be cancelled does not see the store of its cancellation flag performed by another thread. this affects both the case where the signal arrives before entering the critical program counter range from __cp_begin to __cp_end (in which case both the signal handler and the inline check fail to see the value which was already stored) and the case where the signal arrives during the critical range (in which case the signal handler should be responsible for cancellation, but when it does not see the cancellation flag, it assumes the signal is spurious and refuses to act on it). in the fix, the barrier is placed only in the signal handler, not in the inline check at the beginning of the critical program counter range. if the signal handler runs before the critical range is entered, it will of course take no action, but its barrier will ensure that the inline check subsequently sees the store. if on the other hand the inline check runs first, it may miss seeing the store, but the subsequent signal handler in the critical range will act upon the cancellation request. this strategy avoids adding a memory barrier in the common, non-cancellation code path.
2015-01-30make fsync, fdatasync, and msync cancellation pointsTrutz Behn-3/+3
these are mandatory cancellation points per POSIX, so their omission was a conformance bug.
2015-01-30fix missing comma in sh setjmp asmTrutz Behn-1/+1
this typo did not result in an erroneous setjmp with at least binutils 2.22 but fix it for clarity and compatibility with potentially stricter sh assemblers.
2015-01-21fix erroneous return of partial username matches by getspnam[_r]Rich Felker-1/+1
when using /etc/shadow (rather than tcb) as its backend, getspnam_r matched any username starting with the caller-provided string rather than requiring an exact match. in practice this seems to have affected only systems where one valid username is a prefix for another valid username, and where the longer username appears first in the shadow file.
2015-01-21simplify part of getopt_longRich Felker-13/+11
as a result of commit e8e4e56a8ce1f3d7e4a027ff5478f2f8ea70c46b, the later code path for setting optarg to a null pointer is no longer necessary, and removing it eliminates an indention level and arguably makes the code more readable.
2015-01-21always set optarg in getopt_longRich Felker-1/+1
the standard getopt does not touch optarg unless processing an option with an argument. however, programs using the GNU getopt API, which we attempt to provide in getopt_long, expect optarg to be a null pointer after processing an option without an argument. before argument permutation support was added, such programs typically detected its absence and used their own replacement getopt_long, masking the discrepency in behavior.
2015-01-15overhaul __synccall and fix AS-safety and other issues in set*idRich Felker-45/+138
multi-threaded set*id and setrlimit use the internal __synccall function to work around the kernel's wrongful treatment of these process properties as thread-local. the old implementation of __synccall failed to be AS-safe, despite POSIX requiring setuid and setgid to be AS-safe, and was not rigorous in assuring that all threads were caught. in a worst case, threads late in the process of exiting could retain permissions after setuid reported success, in which case attacks to regain dropped permissions may have been possible under the right conditions. the new implementation of __synccall depends on the presence of /proc/self/task and will fail if it can't be opened, but is able to determine that it has caught all threads, and does not use any locks except its own. it thereby achieves AS-safety simply by blocking signals to preclude re-entry in the same thread. with this commit, all known conformance and safety issues in set*id functions should be fixed.
2015-01-15add FUTEX_PRIVATE macro to internal futex.hRich Felker-0/+2
2015-01-15suppress EINTR in sem_wait and sem_timedwaitRich Felker-1/+1
per POSIX, the EINTR condition is an optional error for these functions, not a mandatory one. since old kernels (pre-2.6.22) failed to honor SA_RESTART for the futex syscall, it's dangerous to trust EINTR from the kernel. thankfully POSIX offers an easy way out.
2015-01-15for multithreaded set*id/setrlimit, handle case where callback does not runRich Felker-4/+4
in the current version of __synccall, the callback is always run, so failure to handle this case did not matter. however, the upcoming overhaul of __synccall will have failure cases, in which case the callback does not run and errno is already set. the changes being committed now are in preparation for that.
2015-01-13increase syslog message limit from 256 to 1024Rich Felker-1/+1
this addresses alpine linux issue #3692 and brings the syslog message length limit in alignment with uclibc's implementation.
2015-01-12remove rlimit hacks from multi-threaded set*id() codeRich Felker-23/+15
the code being removed was introduced to work around "partial failure" of multi-threaded set*id() operations, where some threads would succeed in changing their ids but an RLIMIT_NPROC setting would prevent the rest from succeeding, leaving the process in an inconsistent and dangerous state. however, the workaround code did not handle important usage cases like swapping real and effective uids then restoring their original values, and the wrongful kernel enforcement of RLIMIT_NPROC at setuid time was removed in Linux 3.1, making the workaround obsolete. since the partial failure still is dangerous on old kernels, and could in principle happen on post-fix kernels as well if set*id() syscalls fail for another spurious reason such as resource-related failures, new code is added to detect and forcibly kill the process if/when such a situation arises. future documentation releases should be updated to reflect that setting RLIMIT_NPROC to RLIM_INFINITY is necessary to avoid this forced-kill on old kernels. ideally, at some point the kernel will get proper multi-threaded set*id() syscalls capable of performing their actions atomically, and all of the userspace code to emulate them can be treated as a fallback for outdated kernels.
2015-01-12simplify ctermidRich Felker-14/+2
opening /dev/tty then using ttyname_r on it does not produce a canonical terminal name; it simply yields "/dev/tty". it would be possible to make ctermid determine the actual controlling terminal device via field 7 of /proc/self/stat, but doing so would introduce a buffer overflow into applications built with L_ctermid==9, which glibc defines, adversely affecting the quality of ABI compat.
2015-01-11fix regression in getopt_long support for non-option argumentsRich Felker-7/+6
commit b72cd07f176b876aa51864d93aa8101477b1d732 added support for a this feature in getopt, but it was later broken in the case where getopt_long is used as a side effect of the changes made in commit 91184c4f16b143107fa9935edebe5d2b20bd70d8, which prevented the underlying getopt call from seeing the leading '-' or '+' character in optstring. this commit changes the logic in the getopt_long core to check for a leading colon, possibly after the leading '-' or '+', without depending on the latter having been skipped by the caller. a minor incorrectness in the return value for one error condition in getopt_long is also fixed when opterr has been set to zero but optstring has no leading ':'.
2015-01-09check for connect failure in syslog log openingRich Felker-2/+6
based on patch by Dima Krasner, with minor improvements for code size. connect can fail if there is no listening syslogd, in which case a useless socket was kept open, preventing subsequent syslog call from attempting to connect again.
2014-12-21overhaul forkpty function using new login_ttyRich Felker-26/+45
based on discussion with and patches by Felix Janda. these changes started as an effort to factor forkpty in terms of login_tty, which returns an error and skips fd reassignment and closing if setting the controlling terminal failed. the previous forkpty code was unable to handle errors in the child, and did not attempt to; it just silently ignored them. but this would have been unacceptable when switching to using login_tty, since the child would start with the wrong stdin, stdout, and stderr and thereby clobber the parent's files. the new code uses the same technique as the posix_spawn implementation to convey any possible error in the child to the parent so that the parent can report failure to the caller. it is also safe against thread cancellation and against signal delivery in the child prior to the determination of success.