This allows userspace to trigger a full (FIXME) flush of a shared file
mapping to disk. We iterate over all the mapped pages in the VMObject
and write them out to the underlying inode, one by one. This is rather
naive, and there's lots of room for improvement.
Note that shared file mappings are currently not possible since mmap()
returns ENOTSUP for PROT_WRITE+MAP_SHARED. That restriction will be
removed in a subsequent commit. :^)
This feels like it was a refactor transition kind of conversion. The
places that were relying on it can easily be changed to explicitly ask
for the ptr() or a new vaddr() method on Userspace<T*>.
FlatPtr can still implicitly convert to Userspace<T> because the
constructor is not explicit, but there's quite a few more places that
are relying on that conversion.
A series of refactors changed Threads to always have a name, and to
store their name as a KString. Before the refactors a StringBuilder was
used to format the default thread name for a non-main thread, but it is
since unused. Remove it and the AK/String related header includes from
the thread syscall implementation file.
`off_t` is a 64-bit signed integer, so passing it in a register on i686
is not the best idea.
This fix gets us one step closer to making the LLVM port work.
Instead of signalling allocation failure with a bool return value
(false), we now use ErrorOr<void> and return ENOMEM as appropriate.
This allows us to use TRY() and MUST() with Vector. :^)
In particular, fstatvfs used to assume that a file that was earlier
opened using some path will forever be at that path. This is wrong, and
in the meantime new mounts and new filesystems could take up the
filename or directories, leading to a completely inaccurate result.
This commit improves the situation:
- All filesystem information is now always accurate.
- The mount flags *might* be erroneously zero, if the custody for the
open file is not available. I don't know when that might happen, but
it is definitely not the typical case.
We now use AK::Error and AK::ErrorOr<T> in both kernel and userspace!
This was a slightly tedious refactoring that took a long time, so it's
not unlikely that some bugs crept in.
Nevertheless, it does pass basic functionality testing, and it's just
real nice to finally see the same pattern in all contexts. :^)
Found due to smelly code in InodeFile::absolute_path.
In particular, this replaces the following misleading methods:
File::absolute_path
This method *never* returns an actual path, and if called on an
InodeFile (which is impossible), it would VERIFY_NOT_REACHED().
OpenFileDescription::try_serialize_absolute_path
OpenFileDescription::absolute_path
These methods do not guarantee to return an actual path (just like the
other method), and just like Custody::absolute_path they do not
guarantee accuracy. In particular, just renaming the method made a
TOCTOU bug obvious.
The new method signatures use KResultOr, just like
try_serialize_absolute_path() already did.
The OpenFileDescription class already offers the necessary functionlity,
so implementing this was only a matter of following the structure for
`read` while handling the additional `offset` argument.
Having these bits of code factored out not only prevents duplication
now, but will also allow us to implement pread without repeating
ourselves (too much).
Values in `ioctl` are given through a pointer, but ioctl's FIONBIO
implementation was interpreting this pointer as an integer directly.
This meant that programs using `ioctl` to set a file descriptor in
blocking mode met with incorrect behavior: they passed a non-null
pointer pointing to a value of 0, but the kernel interpreted the pointer
as a non-zero integer, thus making the file non-blocking.
This commit fixes this behavior by reading the value from the userspace
pointer and using that to set the non-blocking flag on the file
descriptor.
This bug was found while trying to run the openssl tool on serenity,
which used `ioctl` to ensure newly-created sockets are in blocking mode.
SonarCloud flagged this "Code Smell", where we are accessing these
static methods as if they are instance methods. While it is technically
possible, it is very confusing to read when you realize they are static
functions.
Previously, attempting to call sys$waitid on non-child processes
returned ECHILD.
That prevented debugging non-child processes by attaching to them during
runtime (as opposed to forking and debugging the child, which is what
was previously supported).
We now allow calling sys$waitid on a any process that is being traced
by us, even if it's not our child.
This change removes the halt and reboot syscalls, and create a new
mechanism to change the power state of the machine.
Instead of how power state was changed until now, put a SysFS node as
writable only for the superuser, that with a defined value, can result
in either reboot or poweroff.
In the future, a power group can be assigned to this node (which will be
the GroupID responsible for power management).
This opens an opportunity to permit to shutdown/reboot without superuser
permissions, so in the future, a userspace daemon can take control of
this node to perform power management operations without superuser
permissions, if we enforce different UserID/GroupID on that node.
This will somwhat help unify them also under the same SysFS directory in
the commit.
Also, it feels much more like this change reflects the reality that both
ACPI and the BIOS are part of the firmware on x86 computers.
These interfaces are broken for about 9 months, maybe longer than that.
At this point, this is just a dead code nobody tests or tries to use, so
let's remove it instead of keeping a stale code just for the sake of
keeping it and hoping someone will fix it.
To better justify this, I read that OpenBSD removed loadable kernel
modules in 5.7 release (2014), mainly for the same reason we do -
nobody used it so they had no good reason to maintain it.
Still, OpenBSD had LKMs being effectively working, which is not the
current state in our project for a long time.
An arguably better approach to minimize the Kernel image size is to
allow dropping drivers and features while compiling a new image.
This patch converts all the usage of AK::String around sys$execve() to
using KString instead, allowing us to catch and propagate OOM errors.
It also required changing the kernel CommandLine helper class to return
a vector of KString for the userspace init program arguments.
The current implementation of DevFS resembles the linux devtmpfs, and
not the traditional DevFS, so let's rename it to better represent the
direction of the development in regard to this filesystem.
The abbreviation for DevTmpFS is still "dev", because it doesn't add
value as a commandline option to make it longer.
In quick summary - DevFS in unix OSes is simply a static filesystem, so
device nodes are generated and removed by the kernel code. DevTmpFS
is a "modern reinvention" of the DevFS, so it is much more like a TmpFS
in the sense that not only it's stored entirely in RAM, but the userland
is responsible to add and remove devices nodes as it sees fit, and no
kernel code is directly being involved to keep the filesystem in sync.
This was a weird KBuffer API that assumed failure was impossible.
This patch converts it to a modern KResultOr<NonnullOwnPtr<KBuffer>> API
and updates the two clients to the new style.
Make use of the new FileDescription::try_serialize_absolute_path() to
avoid String in favor of KString throughout much of sys$execve() and
its helpers.
I had to look at this for a moment before I realized that sys$execve()
and the spawning of /bin/SystemServer at boot are taking two different
paths out of exec().
Add a comment to help the next person looking at it. :^)
Before this patch, we were leaking a ref on the open file description
used for the interpreter (the dynamic loader) in sys$execve().
This surfaced when adapting the syscall to use TRY(), since we were now
correctly transferring ownership of the interpreter to Process::exec()
and no longer holding on to a local copy of it (in `elf_result`).
Fixing the leak uncovered another problem. The interpreter description
would now get destroyed when returning from do_exec(), which led to a
kernel panic when attempting to acquire a mutex.
This happens because we're in a particularly delicate state when
returning from do_exec(). Everything is primed for the upcoming context
switch into the new executable image, and trying to block the thread
at this point will panic the kernel.
We fix this by destroying the interpreter description earlier in
do_exec(), at the point where we no longer need it.
When executing a dynamically linked program, we need to pass the main
program executable via a file descriptor to the dynamic loader.
Before this patch, we were allocating an FD for this purpose long after
it was safe to do anything fallible. If we were unable to allocate an
FD we would simply panic the kernel(!)
We now hoist the allocation so it can fail before we've committed to
a new executable.
Due to the use of ELF::Image::for_each_program_header(), we were
previously unable to use TRY() in the ELF loading code (since the return
statement inside TRY() would only return from the iteration callback.)
