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2023-05-03Enable libmvec support for AArch64Joe Ramsay1-0/+6
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>
2023-05-02hurd: Enable x86_64 build scriptSamuel Thibault1-0/+5
This now passes crossbuilds.
2023-04-20Created tunable to force small pages on stack allocation.Cupertino Miranda1-0/+3
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>
2023-03-29Remove --enable-tunables configure optionAdhemerval Zanella Netto1-0/+3
And make always supported. The configure option was added on glibc 2.25 and some features require it (such as hwcap mask, huge pages support, and lock elisition tuning). It also simplifies the build permutations. Changes from v1: * Remove glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort changes, it is orthogonal and needs more discussion. * Cleanup more code. Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
2023-03-29Remove --disable-experimental-malloc optionAdhemerval Zanella1-0/+4
It is the default since 2.26 and it has bitrotten over the years, By using it multiple malloc tests fails: FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2 FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-malloc-hugetlb1 FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-malloc-hugetlb2 FAIL: malloc/tst-memalign-2-mcheck FAIL: malloc/tst-mxfast-malloc-hugetlb1 FAIL: malloc/tst-mxfast-malloc-hugetlb2 FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2 FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2-malloc-hugetlb1 FAIL: malloc/tst-tcfree2-malloc-hugetlb2 Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu. Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
2023-03-14Update printf %b/%B C2x supportJoseph Myers1-0/+2
WG14 recently accepted two additions to the printf/scanf %b/%B support: there are now PRIb* and SCNb* macros in <inttypes.h>, and printf %B is now an optional feature defined in normative text, instead of recommended practice, with corresponding PRIB* macros that can also be used to test whether that optional feature is supported. See N3072 items 14 and 15 for details (those changes were accepted, some other changes in that paper weren't). Add the corresponding PRI* macros to glibc and update one place in the manual referring to %B as recommended. (SCNb* should naturally be added at the same time as the corresponding scanf %b support.) Tested for x86_64 and x86.
2023-03-02C2x scanf binary constant handlingJoseph Myers1-1/+4
C2x adds binary integer constants starting with 0b or 0B, and supports those constants for the %i scanf format (in addition to the %b format, which isn't yet implemented for scanf in glibc). Implement that scanf support for glibc. As with the strtol support, this is incompatible with previous C standard versions, in that such an input string starting with 0b or 0B was previously required to be parsed as 0 (with the rest of the input potentially matching subsequent parts of the scanf format string). Thus this patch adds 12 new __isoc23_* functions per long double format (12, 24 or 36 depending on how many long double formats the glibc configuration supports), with appropriate header redirection support (generally very closely following that for the __isoc99_* scanf functions - note that __GLIBC_USE (DEPRECATED_SCANF) takes precedence over __GLIBC_USE (C2X_STRTOL), so the case of GNU extensions to C89 continues to get old-style GNU %a and does not get this new feature). The function names would remain as __isoc23_* even if C2x ends up published in 2024 rather than 2023. When scanf %b support is added, I think it will be appropriate for all versions of scanf to follow C2x rules for inputs to the %b format (given that there are no compatibility concerns for a new format). Tested for x86_64 (full glibc testsuite). The first version was also tested for powerpc (32-bit) and powerpc64le (stdio-common/ and wcsmbs/ tests), and with build-many-glibcs.py.
2023-02-25hppa: Drop old parisc-specific MADV_* constantsJohn David Anglin1-1/+6
The Linux kernel upstream commit 71bdea6f798b ("parisc: Align parisc MADV_XXX constants with all other architectures") dropped the parisc-specific MADV_* values in favour of the same constants as other architectures. In the same commit a wrapper was added which translates the old values to the standard MADV_* values to avoid breakage of existing programs. This upstream patch has been downported to all stable kernel trees as well. This patch now drops the parisc specific constants from glibc to allow newly compliled programs to use the standard MADV_* constants. v2: Added NEWS section, based on feedback from Florian Weimer Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
2023-02-16C2x strtol binary constant handlingJoseph Myers1-1/+6
C2x adds binary integer constants starting with 0b or 0B, and supports those constants in strtol-family functions when the base passed is 0 or 2. Implement that strtol support for glibc. As discussed at <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-December/120414.html>, this is incompatible with previous C standard versions, in that such an input string starting with 0b or 0B was previously required to be parsed as 0 (with the rest of the string unprocessed). Thus, as proposed there, this patch adds 20 new __isoc23_* functions with appropriate header redirection support. This patch does *not* do anything about scanf %i (which will need 12 new functions per long double variant, so 12, 24 or 36 depending on the glibc configuration), instead leaving that for a future patch. The function names would remain as __isoc23_* even if C2x ends up published in 2024 rather than 2023. Making this change leads to the question of what should happen to internal uses of these functions in glibc and its tests. The header redirection (which applies for _GNU_SOURCE or any other feature test macros enabling C2x features) has the effect of redirecting internal uses but without those uses then ending up at a hidden alias (see the comment in include/stdio.h about interaction with libc_hidden_proto). It seems desirable for the default for internal uses to be the same versions used by normal code using _GNU_SOURCE, so rather than doing anything to disable that redirection, similar macro definitions to those in include/stdio.h are added to the include/ headers for the new functions. Given that the default for uses in glibc is for the redirections to apply, the next question is whether the C2x semantics are correct for all those uses. Uses with the base fixed to 10, 16 or any other value other than 0 or 2 can be ignored. I think this leaves the following internal uses to consider (an important consideration for review of this patch will be both whether this list is complete and whether my conclusions on all entries in it are correct): benchtests/bench-malloc-simple.c benchtests/bench-string.h elf/sotruss-lib.c math/libm-test-support.c nptl/perf.c nscd/nscd_conf.c nss/nss_files/files-parse.c posix/tst-fnmatch.c posix/wordexp.c resolv/inet_addr.c rt/tst-mqueue7.c soft-fp/testit.c stdlib/fmtmsg.c support/support_test_main.c support/test-container.c sysdeps/pthread/tst-mutex10.c I think all of these places are OK with the new semantics, except for resolv/inet_addr.c, where the POSIX semantics of inet_addr do not allow for binary constants; thus, I changed that file (to use __strtoul_internal, whose semantics are unchanged) and added a test for this case. In the case of posix/wordexp.c I think accepting binary constants is OK since POSIX explicitly allows additional forms of shell arithmetic expressions, and in stdlib/fmtmsg.c SEV_LEVEL is not in POSIX so again I think accepting binary constants is OK. Functions such as __strtol_internal, which are only exported for compatibility with old binaries from when those were used in inline functions in headers, have unchanged semantics; the __*_l_internal versions (purely internal to libc and not exported) have a new argument to specify whether to accept binary constants. As well as for the standard functions, the header redirection also applies to the *_l versions (GNU extensions), and to legacy functions such as strtoq, to avoid confusing inconsistency (the *q functions redirect to __isoc23_*ll rather than needing their own __isoc23_* entry points). For the functions that are only declared with _GNU_SOURCE, this means the old versions are no longer available for normal user programs at all. An internal __GLIBC_USE_C2X_STRTOL macro is used to control the redirections in the headers, and cases in glibc that wish to avoid the redirections - the function implementations themselves and the tests of the old versions of the GNU functions - then undefine and redefine that macro to allow the old versions to be accessed. (There would of course be greater complexity should we wish to make any of the old versions into compat symbols / avoid them being defined at all for new glibc ABIs.) strtol_l.c has some similarity to strtol.c in gnulib, but has already diverged some way (and isn't listed at all at https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/SharedSourceFiles unlike strtoll.c and strtoul.c); I haven't made any attempts at gnulib compatibility in the changes to that file. I note incidentally that inttypes.h and wchar.h are missing the __nonnull present on declarations of this family of functions in stdlib.h; I didn't make any changes in that regard for the new declarations added.
2023-02-07NEWS: Document CVE-2023-25139.Carlos O'Donell1-1/+6
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
2023-01-31Open master branch for glibc 2.38 developmentglibc-2.37.9000Carlos O'Donell1-0/+23
2023-01-31Update NEWS file with bug fixes.Carlos O'Donell1-6/+75
2023-01-06Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrightsJoseph Myers1-1/+1
2022-10-06NEWS: Fix grammarAndreas Schwab1-1/+1
2022-10-06Add NEWS entry for legacy hwcaps removalJavier Pello1-1/+4
Add a NEWS entry noting the removal of the legacy hwcaps search mechanism for shared objects. Signed-off-by: Javier Pello <devel@otheo.eu> Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2022-09-20nss: Implement --no-addrconfig option for getentFlorian Weimer1-1/+4
The ahosts, ahostsv4, ahostsv6 commands unconditionally pass AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo, which is not always desired. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-09-06Add NEWS entry for CVE-2022-39046Siddhesh Poyarekar1-1/+4
2022-08-25Revert "Detect ld.so and libc.so version inconsistency during startup"Florian Weimer1-6/+1
This reverts commit 6f85dbf102ad7982409ba0fe96886caeb6389fef. Once this change hits the release branches, it will require relinking of all statically linked applications before static dlopen works again, for the majority of updates on release branches: The NEWS file is regularly updated with bug references, so the __libc_early_init suffix changes, and static dlopen cannot find the function anymore. While this ABI check is still technically correct (we do require rebuilding & relinking after glibc updates to keep static dlopen working), it is too drastic for stable release branches. Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2022-08-24Detect ld.so and libc.so version inconsistency during startupFlorian Weimer1-1/+6
The files NEWS, include/link.h, and sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h contribute to the version fingerprint used for detection. The fingerprint can be further refined using the --with-extra-version-id configure argument. _dl_call_libc_early_init is replaced with _dl_lookup_libc_early_init. The new function is used store a pointer to libc.so's __libc_early_init function in the libc_map_early_init member of the ld.so namespace structure. This function pointer can then be called directly, so the separate invocation function is no longer needed. The versioned symbol lookup needs the symbol versioning data structures, so the initialization of libc_map and libc_map_early_init is now done from _dl_check_map_versions, after this information becomes available. (_dl_map_object_from_fd does not set this up in time, so the initialization code had to be moved from there.) This means that the separate initialization code can be removed from dl_main because _dl_check_map_versions covers all maps, including the initial executable loaded by the kernel. The lookup still happens before relocation and the invocation of IFUNC resolvers, so IFUNC resolvers are protected from ABI mismatch. The __libc_early_init function pointer is not protected because so little code runs between the pointer write and the invocation (only dynamic linker code and IFUNC resolvers). Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-07-30Open master branch for glibc 2.37 developmentglibc-2.36.9000Carlos O'Donell1-0/+23
2022-07-29Update NEWS bug list.Carlos O'Donell1-11/+99
2022-07-27arc4random: simplify design for better safetyJason A. Donenfeld1-2/+2
Rather than buffering 16 MiB of entropy in userspace (by way of chacha20), simply call getrandom() every time. This approach is doubtlessly slower, for now, but trying to prematurely optimize arc4random appears to be leading toward all sorts of nasty properties and gotchas. Instead, this patch takes a much more conservative approach. The interface is added as a basic loop wrapper around getrandom(), and then later, the kernel and libc together can work together on optimizing that. This prevents numerous issues in which userspace is unaware of when it really must throw away its buffer, since we avoid buffering all together. Future improvements may include userspace learning more from the kernel about when to do that, which might make these sorts of chacha20-based optimizations more possible. The current heuristic of 16 MiB is meaningless garbage that doesn't correspond to anything the kernel might know about. So for now, let's just do something conservative that we know is correct and won't lead to cryptographic issues for users of this function. This patch might be considered along the lines of, "optimization is the root of all evil," in that the much more complex implementation it replaces moves too fast without considering security implications, whereas the incremental approach done here is a much safer way of going about things. Once this lands, we can take our time in optimizing this properly using new interplay between the kernel and userspace. getrandom(0) is used, since that's the one that ensures the bytes returned are cryptographically secure. But on systems without it, we fallback to using /dev/urandom. This is unfortunate because it means opening a file descriptor, but there's not much of a choice. Secondly, as part of the fallback, in order to get more or less the same properties of getrandom(0), we poll on /dev/random, and if the poll succeeds at least once, then we assume the RNG is initialized. This is a rough approximation, as the ancient "non-blocking pool" initialized after the "blocking pool", not before, and it may not port back to all ancient kernels, though it does to all kernels supported by glibc (≥3.2), so generally it's the best approximation we can do. The motivation for including arc4random, in the first place, is to have source-level compatibility with existing code. That means this patch doesn't attempt to litigate the interface itself. It does, however, choose a conservative approach for implementing it. Cc: Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org> Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Cc: Mark Harris <mark.hsj@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Cc: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2022-07-26LoongArch: Update NEWS and README for the LoongArch port.caiyinyu1-0/+8
2022-07-22stdlib: Add arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform (BZ #4417)Adhemerval Zanella Netto1-0/+4
The implementation is based on scalar Chacha20 with per-thread cache. It uses getrandom or /dev/urandom as fallback to get the initial entropy, and reseeds the internal state on every 16MB of consumed buffer. To improve performance and lower memory consumption the per-thread cache is allocated lazily on first arc4random functions call, and if the memory allocation fails getentropy or /dev/urandom is used as fallback. The cache is also cleared on thread exit iff it was initialized (so if arc4random is not called it is not touched). Although it is lock-free, arc4random is still not async-signal-safe (the per thread state is not updated atomically). The ChaCha20 implementation is based on RFC8439 [1], omitting the final XOR of the keystream with the plaintext because the plaintext is a stream of zeros. This strategy is similar to what OpenBSD arc4random does. The arc4random_uniform is based on previous work by Florian Weimer, where the algorithm is based on Jérémie Lumbroso paper Optimal Discrete Uniform Generation from Coin Flips, and Applications (2013) [2], who credits Donald E. Knuth and Andrew C. Yao, The complexity of nonuniform random number generation (1976), for solving the general case. The main advantage of this method is the that the unit of randomness is not the uniform random variable (uint32_t), but a random bit. It optimizes the internal buffer sampling by initially consuming a 32-bit random variable and then sampling byte per byte. Depending of the upper bound requested, it might lead to better CPU utilization. Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, aarch64-linux, and powerpc64le-linux-gnu. Co-authored-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8439 [2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.1916.pdf
2022-07-06stdlib: Implement mbrtoc8, c8rtomb, and the char8_t typedef.Tom Honermann1-0/+9
This change provides implementations for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb functions adopted for C++20 via WG21 P0482R6 and for C2X via WG14 N2653. It also provides the char8_t typedef from WG14 N2653. The mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined. The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type). Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2022-07-05linux: Add mount_setattrAdhemerval Zanella1-4/+4
It was added on Linux 5.12 (2a1867219c7b27f928e2545782b86daaf9ad50bd) to allow change the properties of a mount or a mount tree using file descriptors which the new mount api is based on. Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-07-05linux: Add open_treeAdhemerval Zanella1-5/+5
It was added on Linux 5.2 (a07b20004793d8926f78d63eb5980559f7813404) to return a O_PATH-opened file descriptor to an existing mountpoint. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-07-05linux: Add fspickAdhemerval Zanella1-4/+5
It was added on Linux 5.2 (cf3cba4a429be43e5527a3f78859b1bfd9ebc5fb) that can be used to pick an existing mountpoint into an filesystem context which can thereafter be used to reconfigure a superblock with fsconfig syscall. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-07-05linux: Add fsconfigAdhemerval Zanella1-4/+4
It was added on Linux 5.2 (ecdab150fddb42fe6a739335257949220033b782) as a way to a configure filesystem creation context and trigger actions upon it, to be used in conjunction with fsopen, fspick and fsmount. The fsconfig_command commands are currently only defined as an enum, so they can't be checked on tst-mount-consts.py with current test support. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-07-05locale: localdef input files are now encoded in UTF-8Florian Weimer1-0/+4
Previously, they were assumed to be in ISO-8859-1, and that the output charset overlapped with ISO-8859-1 for the characters actually used. However, this did not work as intended on many architectures even for an ISO-8859-1 output encoding because of the char signedness bug in lr_getc. Therefore, this commit switches to UTF-8 without making provisions for backwards compatibility. The following Elisp code can be used to convert locale definition files to UTF-8: (defun glibc/convert-localedef (from to) (interactive "r") (save-excursion (save-restriction (narrow-to-region from to) (goto-char (point-min)) (save-match-data (while (re-search-forward "<U\\([0-9a-fA-F]+\\)>" nil t) (let* ((codepoint (string-to-number (match-string 1) 16)) (converted (cond ((memq codepoint '(?/ ?\ ?< ?>)) (string ?/ codepoint)) ((= codepoint ?\") "<U0022>") (t (string codepoint))))) (replace-match converted t))))))) Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-06-24linux: Add move_mountAdhemerval Zanella1-4/+4
It was added on Linux 5.2 (2db154b3ea8e14b04fee23e3fdfd5e9d17fbc6ae) as way t move a mount from one place to another and, in the next commit, allow to attach an unattached mount tree. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-06-24linux: Add fsmountAdhemerval Zanella1-4/+4
It was added on 5.2 (93766fbd2696c2c4453dd8e1070977e9cd4e6b6d) to provide a way by which a filesystem opened with fsopen and configured by a series of fsconfig calls can have a detached mount object created for it. Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-06-24linux: Add fsopenAdhemerval Zanella1-0/+5
It was added on Linux 5.2 (24dcb3d90a1f67fe08c68a004af37df059d74005) to start the process of preparing to create a superblock that will then be mountable, using an fd as a context handle. Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-06-24resolv: Implement no-aaaa stub resolver optionFlorian Weimer1-0/+12
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-06-02linux: Add process_mreleaseAdhemerval Zanella1-0/+5
Added in Linux 5.15 (884a7e5964e06ed93c7771c0d7cf19c09a8946f1), the new syscalls allows a caller to free the memory of a dying target process. Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-06-02linux: Add process_madviseAdhemerval Zanella1-0/+4
It was added on Linux 5.10 (ecb8ac8b1f146915aa6b96449b66dd48984caacc) with the same functionality as madvise but using a pidfd of the target process. Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-linux-gnu. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-05-17linux: Add pidfd_send_signalAdhemerval Zanella1-3/+3
This was added on Linux 5.1(3eb39f47934f9d5a3027fe00d906a45fe3a15fad) as a way to avoid the race condition of using kill (where PID might be reused by the kernel between between obtaining the pid and sending the signal). If the siginfo_t argument is NULL then pidfd_send_signal is equivalent to kill. If it is not NULL pidfd_send_signal is equivalent to rt_sigqueueinfo. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-05-17linux: Add pidfd_getfdAdhemerval Zanella1-3/+3
This was added on Linux 5.6 (8649c322f75c96e7ced2fec201e123b2b073bf09) as a way to retrieve a file descriptors for another process though pidfd (created either with CLONE_PIDFD or pidfd_getfd). The functionality is similar to recvmmsg SCM_RIGHTS. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-05-17linux: Add pidfd_openAdhemerval Zanella1-0/+4
This was added on Linux 5.3 (32fcb426ec001cb6d5a4a195091a8486ea77e2df) as a way to retrieve a pid file descriptors for process that has not been created CLONE_PIDFD (by usual fork/clone). Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2022-05-16Remove dl-librecon.h header.Adhemerval Zanella1-0/+2
The Linux version used by i686 and m68k provide three overrrides for generic code: 1. DISTINGUISH_LIB_VERSIONS to print additional information when libc5 is used by a dependency. 2. EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS to that enabled LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable. 3. EXTRA_UNSECURE_ENVVARS to add two environment variables related to aout support. None are really requires, it has some decades since libc5 or aout suppported was removed and Linux even remove support for aout files. The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION is also dead code, dl_correct_cache_id is not used anywhere. Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-linux-gnu. Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
2022-05-16Remove kernel version checkAdhemerval Zanella1-0/+5
The kernel version check is used to avoid glibc to run on older kernels where some syscall are not available and fallback code are not enabled to handle graciously fail. However, it does not prevent if the kernel does not correctly advertise its version through vDSO note, uname or procfs. Also kernel version checks are sometime not desirable by users, where they want to deploy on different system with different kernel version knowing the minimum set of syscall is always presented on such systems. The kernel version check has been removed along with the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed when libc.so is issued. Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
2022-04-26NEWS: Mention DT_RELR supportH.J. Lu1-1/+6
2022-04-12NEWS: Move PLT tracking slowdown to glibc 2.35.Carlos O'Donell1-3/+3
In commit 063f9ba220f434c7f30dd65c4cff17c0c458a7cf the NEWS section was accidentally added to the glibc 2.34 NEWS section. The NEWS entry should have been added to glibc 2.35 which contained the committed fix. This moves the NEWS entry to correct section.
2022-02-10elf: Remove LD_USE_LOAD_BIASAdhemerval Zanella1-0/+3
It is solely for prelink with PIE executables [1]. [1] https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-hacker/2003-11/msg00127.html Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
2022-02-10malloc: Remove LD_TRACE_PRELINKING usage from mtraceAdhemerval Zanella1-0/+4
The fix for BZ#22716 replacde LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS with LD_TRACE_PRELINKING so mtrace could record executable address position. To provide the same information, LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS is extended where a value or '2' also prints the executable address as well. It avoid adding another loader environment variable to be used solely for mtrace. The vDSO will be printed as a default library (with '=>' pointing the same name), which is ok since both mtrace and ldd already handles it. The mtrace script is changed to also parse the new format. To correctly support PIE and non-PIE executables, both the default mtrace address and the one calculated as used (it fixes mtrace for non-PIE exectuable as for BZ#22716 for PIE). Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu. Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
2022-02-10elf: Remove prelink supportAdhemerval Zanella1-1/+3
Prelinked binaries and libraries still work, the dynamic tags DT_GNU_PRELINKED, DT_GNU_LIBLIST, DT_GNU_CONFLICT just ignored (meaning the process is reallocated as default). The loader environment variable TRACE_PRELINKING is also removed, since it used solely on prelink. Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu, and aarch64-linux-gnu. Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
2022-02-03Open master branch for glibc 2.36 developmentglibc-2.35.9000Carlos O'Donell1-0/+24
2022-02-02Update NEWS bug list.Carlos O'Donell1-2/+134
2022-02-02Update NEWS.Carlos O'Donell1-6/+7
Moved LD_AUDIT notes into requirements section since the LAV_CURRENT bump is a requirements change that impacts loading old audit modules or new audit modules on older loaders.
2022-02-02posix: Replace posix_spawnattr_tc{get,set}pgrp_np with ↵Adhemerval Zanella1-4/+3
posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np The posix_spawnattr_tcsetpgrp_np works on a file descriptor (the controlling terminal), so it would make more sense to actually fit it on the file actions API. Also, POSIX_SPAWN_TCSETPGROUP is not really required since it is implicit by the presence of tcsetpgrp file action. The posix/tst-spawn6.c is also fixed when TTY can is not present. Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-linux-gnu. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>