some nontrivial number of applications have historically performed
direct syscalls for these operations rather than using the public
functions. such usage is invalid now that time_t is 64-bit and these
syscalls no longer match the types they are used with, and it was
already harmful before (by suppressing use of vdso).
since syscall() has no type safety, incorrect usage of these syscalls
can't be caught at compile-time. so, without manually inspecting or
running additional tools to check sources, the risk of such errors
slipping through is high.
this patch renames the syscalls on 32-bit archs to clock_gettime32 and
gettimeofday_time32, so that applications using the original names
will fail to build without being fixed.
note that there are a number of other syscalls that may also be unsafe
to use directly after the time64 switchover, but (1) these are the
main two that seem to be in widespread use, and (2) most of the others
continue to have valid usage with a null timeval/timespec argument, as
the argument is an optional timeout or similar.
the syscall number is reserved on all targets, but it is not wired up
on all targets, see
linux commit 8f6ccf6159aed1f04c6d179f61f6fb2691261e84
Merge tag 'clone3-v5.3' of ... brauner/linux
linux commit 8f3220a806545442f6f26195bc491520f5276e7c
arch: wire-up clone3() syscall
linux commit 7f192e3cd316ba58c88dfa26796cf77789dd9872
fork: add clone3
see
linux commit 7615d9e1780e26e0178c93c55b73309a5dc093d7
arch: wire-up pidfd_open()
linux commit 32fcb426ec001cb6d5a4a195091a8486ea77e2df
pid: add pidfd_open()
new mount api syscalls were added, same numers on all targets, see
linux commit a07b20004793d8926f78d63eb5980559f7813404
vfs: syscall: Add open_tree(2) to reference or clone a mount
linux commit 2db154b3ea8e14b04fee23e3fdfd5e9d17fbc6ae
vfs: syscall: Add move_mount(2) to move mounts around
linux commit 24dcb3d90a1f67fe08c68a004af37df059d74005
vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation
linux commit ecdab150fddb42fe6a739335257949220033b782
vfs: syscall: Add fsconfig() for configuring and managing a context
linux commit 93766fbd2696c2c4453dd8e1070977e9cd4e6b6d
vfs: syscall: Add fsmount() to create a mount for a superblock
linux commit cf3cba4a429be43e5527a3f78859b1bfd9ebc5fb
vfs: syscall: Add fspick() to select a superblock for reconfiguration
linux commit 9c8ad7a2ff0bfe58f019ec0abc1fb965114dde7d
uapi, x86: Fix the syscall numbering of the mount API syscalls [ver #2]
linux commit d8076bdb56af5e5918376cd1573a6b0007fc1a89
uapi: Wire up the mount API syscalls on non-x86 arches [ver #2]
syscall numbers are now synced up across targets (starting from 403 the
numbers are the same on all targets other than an arch specific offset)
IPC syscalls sem*, shm*, msg* got added where they were missing (except
for semop: only semtimedop got added), the new semctl, shmctl, msgctl
imply IPC_64, see
linux commit 0d6040d4681735dfc47565de288525de405a5c99
arch: add split IPC system calls where needed
new 64bit time_t syscall variants got added on 32bit targets, see
linux commit 48166e6ea47d23984f0b481ca199250e1ce0730a
y2038: add 64-bit time_t syscalls to all 32-bit architectures
new async io syscalls got added, see
linux commit 2b188cc1bb857a9d4701ae59aa7768b5124e262e
Add io_uring IO interface
linux commit edafccee56ff31678a091ddb7219aba9b28bc3cb
io_uring: add support for pre-mapped user IO buffers
a new syscall got added that uses the fd of /proc/<pid> as a stable
handle for processes: allows sending signals without pid reuse issues,
intended to eventually replace rt_sigqueueinfo, kill, tgkill and
rt_tgsigqueueinfo, see
linux commit 3eb39f47934f9d5a3027fe00d906a45fe3a15fad
signal: add pidfd_send_signal() syscall
on some targets (arm, m68k, s390x, sh) some previously missing syscall
numbers got added as well.
most of the found naming differences don't matter to musl, because
internally it unifies the syscall names that vary across targets,
but for external code the names should match the kernel uapi.
aarch64:
__NR_fstatat is called __NR_newfstatat in linux.
__NR_or1k_atomic got mistakenly copied from or1k.
arm:
__NR_arm_sync_file_range is an alias for __NR_sync_file_range2
__NR_fadvise64_64 is called __NR_arm_fadvise64_64 in linux,
the old non-arm name is kept too, it should not cause issues.
(powerpc has similar nonstandard fadvise and it uses the
normal name.)
i386:
__NR_madvise1 was removed from linux in commit
303395ac3bf3e2cb488435537d416bc840438fcb 2011-11-11
microblaze:
__NR_fadvise, __NR_fstatat, __NR_pread, __NR_pwrite
had different name in linux.
mips:
__NR_fadvise, __NR_fstatat, __NR_pread, __NR_pwrite, __NR_select
had different name in linux.
mipsn32:
__NR_fstatat is called __NR_newfstatat in linux.
or1k:
__NR__llseek is called __NR_llseek in linux.
the old name is kept too because that's the name musl uses
internally.
powerpc:
__NR_{get,set}res{gid,uid}32 was never present in powerpc linux.
__NR_timerfd was briefly defined in linux but then got renamed.
the syscalls take an additional flag argument, they were added in commit
f17d8b35452cab31a70d224964cd583fb2845449 and a RWF_HIPRI priority hint
flag was added to linux/fs.h in 97be7ebe53915af504fb491fb99f064c7cf3cb09.
the syscall is not allocated for microblaze and sh yet.
it was introduced for offloading copying between regular files
in linux commit 29732938a6289a15e907da234d6692a2ead71855
(microblaze and sh does not yet have the syscall number.)
this is mlock with a flags argument, new in linux commit
a8ca5d0ecbdde5cc3d7accacbd69968b0c98764e
as usual microblaze and sh don't have allocated syscall number yet.
new in linux v4.3 added for aarch64, arm, i386, mips, or1k, powerpc,
x32 and x86_64.
membarrier is a system wide memory barrier, moves most of the
synchronization cost to one side, new in kernel commit
5b25b13ab08f616efd566347d809b4ece54570d1
userfaultfd is useful for qemu and is new in kernel commit
8d2afd96c20316d112e04d935d9e09150e988397
switch_endian is powerpc only for switching endianness, new in commit
529d235a0e190ded1d21ccc80a73e625ebcad09b
new in linux v4.3 commit 9dea5dc921b5f4045a18c63eb92e84dc274d17eb
direct calls instead of socketcall allow better seccomp filtering.
musl continues to use socketcalls internally on i386. (older kernels
would need a fallback mechanism if the direct calls were used.)
this syscall allows fexecve to be implemented without /proc, it is new
in linux v3.19, added in commit 51f39a1f0cea1cacf8c787f652f26dfee9611874
(sh and microblaze do not have allocated syscall numbers yet)
added a x32 fix as well: the io_setup and io_submit syscalls are no
longer common with x86_64, so use the x32 specific numbers.
these syscalls are new in linux v3.18, bpf is present on all
supported archs except sh, kexec_file_load is only allocted for
x86_64 and x32 yet.
bpf was added in linux commit 99c55f7d47c0dc6fc64729f37bf435abf43f4c60
kexec_file_load syscall number was allocated in commit
f0895685c7fd8c938c91a9d8a6f7c11f22df58d2
these syscalls are new in linux v3.17 and present on all supported
archs except sh.
seccomp was added in commit 48dc92b9fc3926844257316e75ba11eb5c742b2c
it has operation, flags and pointer arguments (if flags==0 then it is
the same as prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP,...)), the uapi header for flag
definitions is linux/seccomp.h
getrandom was added in commit c6e9d6f38894798696f23c8084ca7edbf16ee895
it provides an entropy source when open("/dev/urandom",..) would fail,
the uapi header for flags is linux/random.h
memfd_create was added in commit 9183df25fe7b194563db3fec6dc3202a5855839c
it allows anon mmap to have an fd, that can be shared, sealed and needs no
mount point, the uapi header for flags is linux/memfd.h
linux 3.14 introduced sched_getattr and sched_setattr syscalls in
commit d50dde5a10f305253cbc3855307f608f8a3c5f73
and the related SCHED_DEADLINE scheduling policy in
commit aab03e05e8f7e26f51dee792beddcb5cca9215a5
but struct sched_attr "extended scheduling parameters data structure"
is not yet exported to userspace (necessary for using the syscalls)
so related uapi definitions are not added yet.
now public syscall.h only exposes __NR_* and SYS_* constants and the
variadic syscall function. no macros or inline functions, no
__syscall_ret or other internal details, no 16-/32-bit legacy syscall
renaming, etc. this logic has all been moved to src/internal/syscall.h
with the arch-specific parts in arch/$(ARCH)/syscall_arch.h, and the
amount of arch-specific stuff has been reduced to a minimum.
changes still need to be reviewed/double-checked. minimal testing on
i386 and mips has already been performed.
while musl itself requires a c99 compiler, some applications insist on
being compiled with c89 compilers, and use of "inline" in the headers
was breaking them. much of this had been avoided already by just
skipping the inline keyword in pre-c99 compilers or modes, but this
new unified solution is cleaner and may/should result in better code
generation in the default gcc configuration.
when the "r" (register) constraint is used to let gcc choose a
register, gcc will sometimes assign the same register that was used
for one of the other fixed-register operands, if it knows the values
are the same. one common case is multiple zero arguments to a syscall.
this horribly breaks the intended usage, which is swapping the GOT
pointer from ebx into the temp register and back to perform the
syscall.
presumably there is a way to fix this with advanced usage of register
constaints on the inline asm, but having bad memories about hellish
compatibility issues with different gcc versions, for the time being
i'm just going to hard-code specific registers to be used. this may
hurt the compiler's ability to optimize, but it will fix serious
miscompilation issues.
so far the only function i know what compiled incorrectly is
getrlimit.c, and naturally the bug only applies to shared (PIC)
builds, but it may be more extensive and may have gone undetected..
the arm syscall abi requires 64-bit arguments to be aligned on an even
register boundary. these new macros facilitate meeting the abi
requirement without imposing significant ugliness on the code.
this patch improves the correctness, simplicity, and size of
cancellation-related code. modulo any small errors, it should now be
completely conformant, safe, and resource-leak free.
the notion of entering and exiting cancellation-point context has been
completely eliminated and replaced with alternative syscall assembly
code for cancellable syscalls. the assembly is responsible for setting
up execution context information (stack pointer and address of the
syscall instruction) which the cancellation signal handler can use to
determine whether the interrupted code was in a cancellable state.
these changes eliminate race conditions in the previous generation of
cancellation handling code (whereby a cancellation request received
just prior to the syscall would not be processed, leaving the syscall
to block, potentially indefinitely), and remedy an issue where
non-cancellable syscalls made from signal handlers became cancellable
if the signal handler interrupted a cancellation point.
x86_64 asm is untested and may need a second try to get it right.
with this patch, the syscallN() functions are no longer needed; a
variadic syscall() macro allows syscalls with anywhere from 0 to 6
arguments to be made with a single macro name. also, manually casting
each non-integer argument with (long) is no longer necessary; the
casts are hidden in the macros.
some source files which depended on being able to define the old macro
SYSCALL_RETURNS_ERRNO have been modified to directly use __syscall()
instead of syscall(). references to SYSCALL_SIGSET_SIZE and SYSCALL_LL
have also been changed.
x86_64 has not been tested, and may need a follow-up commit to fix any
minor bugs/oversights.
this commit shuffles around the location of syscall definitions so
that we can make a syscall() library function with both SYS_* and
__NR_* style syscall names available to user applications, provides
the syscall() library function, and optimizes the code that performs
the actual inline syscalls in the library itself.
previously on i386 when built as PIC (shared library), syscalls were
incurring bus lock (lock prefix) overhead at entry and exit, due to
the way the ebx register was being loaded (xchg instruction with a
memory operand). now the xchg takes place between two registers.
further cleanup to arch/$(ARCH)/syscall.h is planned.
this was originally written for an early draft of the library where
non-standard functions would reside in a static library separate from
the shared libc.so, which would implement a pure standard. the idea
was not to depend on an implementation-dependent __syscall_ret
function in the main libc. but it turned out to be better to put
everything in a single library for both static and dynamic linking
uses, and thus the (incomplete) remnants of this feature were just
enlarging the source and binary.
- hide all the legacy xxxxxx32 name cruft in syscall.h so the actual
source files can be clean and uniform across all archs.
- cleanup llseek/lseek and mmap2/mmap handling for 32/64 bit systems
- alternate implementation for nice if the target lacks nice syscall
Rich Felker
Szabolcs Nagy
Bobby Bingham