despite sh not generally using register-pair alignment for 64-bit
syscall arguments, there are arch-specific versions of the syscall
entry points for pread and pwrite which include a dummy argument for
alignment before the 64-bit offset argument.
this code was already under #if 0, but could be confusing if a reader
didn't notice that, and it's almost surely full of bugs and/or
inconsistencies with the current code that uses the gethostbyname2_r
backend.
these changes still do not yield a fully-conforming abort, but they
fix two known issues:
- per POSIX, termination via SIGKILL is not "abnormal", but both ISO C
and POSIX require abort to yield abnormal termination.
- raising SIGKILL fails to do anything to pid 1 in some containers.
now, the trapping instruction produced by a_crash() is expected to
produce abnormal termination, without the risk of invoking a signal
handler since SIGILL and SIGSEGV are blocked, and _Exit, which
contains an infinite loop analogous to the one being removed from
abort itself, is used as a last resort.
this implementation still fails to produce an exit status as if the
process terminated via SIGABRT in cases where SIGABRT is blocked or
ignored, but fixing that is not easy; the obvious pseudo-solutions all
have subtle race conditions where a concurrent fork or exec can expose
incorrect signal state.
commit 6d38c9cf80 provided an
arm-specific version of posix_fadvise to address the alternate
argument order the kernel expects on arm, but neglected to address
that powerpc (32-bit) has the same issue. instead of having arch
variant files in duplicate, simply put the alternate version in the
top-level file under the control of a macro defined in syscall_arch.h.
when commit 0b6eb2dfb2 added the
parentheses around __syscall to invoke the function directly, there
was no __syscall7 in the syscall macro infrastructure, so this hack
was needed. commit 9a3bbce447 fixed that
but failed to remove the hack.
Linux's documentation (robust-futex-ABI.txt) claims that, when a
process dies with a futex on the robust list, bit 30 (0x40000000) is
set to indicate the status. however, what actually happens is that
bits 0-30 are replaced with the value 0x40000000, i.e. bits 0-29
(containing the old owner tid) are cleared at the same time bit 30 is
set.
our userspace-side code for robust mutexes was written based on that
documentation, assuming that kernel would never produce a futex value
of 0x40000000, since the low (owner) bits would always be non-zero.
commit d338b506e3 introduced this
assumption explicitly while fixing another bug in how non-recoverable
status for robust mutexes was tracked. presumably the tests conducted
at that time only checked non-process-shared robust mutexes, which are
handled in pthread_exit (which implemented the documented kernel
protocol, not the actual one) rather than by the kernel.
change pthread_exit robust list processing to match the kernel
behavior, clearing bits 0-29 while setting bit 30, and use the value
0x7fffffff instead of 0x40000000 to encode non-recoverable status. the
choice of value here is arbitrary; any value with at least one of bits
0-29 set should work just as well,
despite clarifications made to the COPYRIGHT file in commit
f0a6139933, there continues to be
confusion about whether the permissions granted actually apply to all
files. I am the sole author of these files and clearly intend, and
have always intended, for the grant of permission to apply to them.
the difference of pointers is a signed type ptrdiff_t; if it is only
32-bit, left-shifting it by 30 bits produces undefined behavior. cast
the difference to an appropriate unsigned type, uint32_t, before
shifting to avoid this.
the a64l function is specified to return a signed 32-bit result in
type long. as noted in the bug report by Ed Schouten, converting
implicitly from uint32_t only produces the desired result when long is
a 32-bit type. since the computation has to be done in unsigned
arithmetic to avoid overflow, simply cast the result to int32_t.
further, POSIX leaves the behavior on invalid input unspecified but
not undefined, so we should not take the difference between the
potentially-null result of strchr and the base pointer without first
checking the result. the simplest behavior is just returning the
partial conversion already performed in this case, so do that.
the num_submatches field of some ast nodes was not initialized in
tre_add_tag_{left,right}, but was accessed later.
this was a benign bug since the uninitialized values were never used
(these values are created during tre_add_tags and copied around during
tre_expand_ast where they are also used in computations, but nothing
in the final tnfa depends on them).
previously if you called getprotobyname("egp") you would get
NULL because \008 is invalid octal and so the protocol id was
interpreted as 0 and name as "8egp".
commit 7e816a6487 (version 1.1.11
release cycle) moved the code that performs wchar_t to multibyte
conversion across code that used the resulting length in bytes,
thereby breaking the unget buffer space check in ungetwc and
clobbering up to three bytes below the start of the buffer.
for allocated FILEs (all read-enabled FILEs except stdin), the
underflow clobbers at most the FILE-specific locale pointer. no stores
are performed through this pointer, but subsequent loads may result in
a crash or mismatching encoding rule (UTF-8 multibyte vs byte-based).
for stdin, the buffer lies in .bss and the underflow may clobber
another object. in practice, for libc.so the adjacent object seems to
be stderr's buffer, which is completely unused, but this could vary
with linking options, or when static linking.
applications which do not attempt to use more than one character of
ungetwc pushback, or which do not use ungetwc, are not affected.
per the powerpc psabi, offset 4 of the stack at call time belongs to
the callee and is used for spilling lr (return address). in addition,
offset 0 on the stack must contain a pointer to the previous stack
frame, or a null pointer for the initial stack frame of a thread.
__clone failed to setup any stack frame on the new thread's stack,
thereby allowing the start function it called to clobber offset 4 of
the new thread's struct __pthread, which contains the dtv pointer.
add code to setup a proper stack frame and align the stack pointer to
a multiple of 16 (also an abi requirement) if it was not already
aligned.
the two/three/four byte memmem specializations are not prepared to
handle haystacks shorter than the needle; they unconditionally read at
least up to the needle length and subtract from the haystack length.
if the haystack is shorter, the remaining haystack length underflows
and produces an unbounded search which will eventually either crash or
find a spurious match.
the top-level memmem function attempted to avoid this case already by
checking for haystack shorter than needle, but it failed to re-check
after using memchr to remove the maximal prefix not containing the
first byte of the needle.
the comparison f->wpos > f->buf has undefined behavior when f->wpos is
a null pointer, despite the intuition (and actual compiler behavior,
for all known compilers) being that NULL > ptr is false for all valid
pointers ptr.
the purpose of the comparison is to determine if the write buffer is
non-empty, and the idiom used elsewhere for that is comparison against
f->wbase, which is either a null pointer when not writing, or equal to
f->buf when writing. in the former case, both f->wpos and f->wbase are
null; in the latter they are both non-null and point into the same
array.
the idiom fprintf(f, "%.*s", n, "") was wrongly used in vfwprintf as a
means of producing n spaces; instead it produces no output. the
correct form is fprintf(f, "%*s", n, ""), using width instead of
precision, since for %s the later is a maximum rather than a minimum.
Some PowerPC CPUs (e.g. Freescale MPC85xx) have a completely different
instruction set for floating point operations (SPE).
Executing regular PowerPC floating point instructions results in
"Illegal instruction" errors.
Make it possible to run these devices in soft-float mode.
This is the minimal fix for __putenv leaving a pointer to freed heap
storage in __env_map array, which could later on lead to errors such
as double-free.
this change is made in preparation for adding the mips64 port, which
needs a 64-bit (and mips64-specific) form of the R_INFO macro, but
it's a better abstraction anyway.
based on part of the mips64 port patch by Mahesh Bodapati and Jaydeep
Patil of Imagination Technologies.
This is a workaround to treat * as literal * at the start of a BRE.
Ideally ^ would be treated as an anchor at the start of any BRE
subexpression and similarly $ would be an anchor at the end of any
subexpression. This is not required by the standard and hard to do
with the current code, but it's the existing practice. If it is
changed, * should be treated as literal after such anchor as well.
commit 7eaa76fc2e made * invalid at
the start of a BRE subexpression, but it should be accepted as
literal * there according to the standard.
This patch does not fix subexpressions starting with ^*.
name_from_hosts failed to account for the possibility of an address
family error from name_from_numeric, wrongly counting such a return as
success and using the uninitialized address data as part of the
results passed up to the caller.
non-matching address family entries cannot simply be ignored or
results would be inconsistent with respect to whether AF_UNSPEC or a
specific address family is queried. instead, record that a
non-matching entry was seen, and fail the lookup with EAI_NONAME of no
matching-family entries are found.
commit e4355bd6be moved the math asm
from external source files to inline asm, but unfortunately, all
current releases of clang use the wrong inline asm constraint codes
for float and double ("w" and "P" instead of "t" and "w",
respectively). this patch adds detection for the bug in configure,
and, for now, just disables the affected asm on broken clang versions.
in order to take advantage of the fpu in -mfloat-abi=softfp mode, the
__VFP_FP__ (presence of vfp fpu) was checked instead of checking for
__ARM_PCS_VFP (hardfloat EABI variant). however, the latter macro is
the one that's actually specified by the ABI documents rather than
being compiler-specific, and should also be checked in case __VFP_FP__
is not defined on some compilers or some configurations.
the reference implementation clamps rounds to [1000,999999999]. we
further limited rounds to at most 9999999 as a defense against extreme
run times, but wrongly clamped instead of treating out-of-bounds
values as an error, thereby producing implementation-specific hash
results. fixing this should not break anything since values of rounds
this high are not useful anyway.
like fputs (see commit 10a17dfbad), the
message printing code for getopt assumed that fwrite only returns 0 on
failure, but it can also happen on success if the total length to be
written is zero. programs with zero-length argv[0] were affected.
commit 500c6886c6 introduced this
problem in getopt by fixing the fwrite behavior to conform to the
requirements of ISO C. previously the wrong expectations of the getopt
code were met by the fwrite implementation.
internally, the idiom of passing nmemb=1 to fwrite and interpreting
the return value of fwrite (which is necessarily 0 or 1) as
failure/success is fairly widely used. this is not correct, however,
when the size argument is unknown and may be zero, since C requires
fwrite to return 0 in that special case. previously fwrite always
returned nmemb on success, but this was changed for conformance with
ISO C by commit 500c6886c6.
when the size argument was zero but nmemb was nonzero, these functions
were returning nmemb, despite no data having been written.
conceptually this is not wrong, but the standard requires a return
value of zero in this case.
as specified, the int argument providing the character to write is
converted to type unsigned char. for the actual write to buffer,
conversion happened implicitly via the assignment operator; however,
the logic to check whether the argument was a newline used the
original int value. thus usage such as putchar('\n'+0x100) failed to
produce a flush.
when a write error occurred while flushing output due to a newline,
fwrite falsely reported all bytes up to and including the newline as
successfully written. in general, due to buffering such "spurious
success" returns are acceptable for stdio; however for line-buffered
mode it was subtly wrong. errors were still visible via ferror() or as
a short-write return if there was more data past the newline that
should have been written, but since the contract for line-buffered
mode is that everything up through the newline be written out
immediately, a discrepency was observable in the actual file contents.
the workaround was for a bug that botched .gpword references to local
labels, applying a nonsensical random offset of -0x4000 to them.
this reverses commit 5e396fb996 and a
removes a similar hack that was added to syscall_cp.s in the later
commit 756c8af858. it turns out one
additional instance of the same idiom, the GETFUNCSYM macro in
arch/mips/reloc.h, was still affected by the assembler bug and does
not admit an easy workaround without making assumptions about how the
macro is used. the previous workarounds made static linking work but
left the early-stage dynamic linker broken and thus had limited
usefulness.
instead, affected users (using binutils versions older than 2.20) will
need to fix the bug on the binutils side; the trivial patch is commit
453f5985b13e35161984bf1bf657bbab11515aa4 in the binutils-gdb
repository.
the old __cp_cancel code path loaded the address of __cancel from the
GOT using the $gp register, which happened to be set to point to the
correct GOT by the calling C function, but there is no ABI requirement
that this happen. instead, go the roundabout way and compute the
address of __cancel via pc-relative and gp-relative addressing
starting with a fake return address generated by a bal instruction,
which is the same trick crt1 uses to bootstrap.
Rich Felker