Linux 6.11 has getrandom() in vDSO. It operates on a thread-local opaque
state allocated with mmap using flags specified by the vDSO.
Multiple states are allocated at once, as many as fit into a page, and
these are held in an array of available states to be doled out to each
thread upon first use, and recycled when a thread terminates. As these
states run low, more are allocated.
To make this procedure async-signal-safe, a simple guard is used in the
LSB of the opaque state address, falling back to the syscall if there's
reentrancy contention.
Also, _Fork() is handled by blocking signals on opaque state allocation
(so _Fork() always sees a consistent state even if it interrupts a
getrandom() call) and by iterating over the thread stack cache on
reclaim_stack. Each opaque state will be in the free states list
(grnd_alloc.states) or allocated to a running thread.
The cancellation is handled by always using GRND_NONBLOCK flags while
calling the vDSO, and falling back to the cancellable syscall if the
kernel returns EAGAIN (would block). Since getrandom is not defined by
POSIX and cancellation is supported as an extension, the cancellation is
handled as 'may occur' instead of 'shall occur' [1], meaning that if
vDSO does not block (the expected behavior) getrandom will not act as a
cancellation entrypoint. It avoids a pthread_testcancel call on the fast
path (different than 'shall occur' functions, like sem_wait()).
It is currently enabled for x86_64, which is available in Linux 6.11,
and aarch64, powerpc32, powerpc64, loongarch64, and s390x, which are
available in Linux 6.12.
Link: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/nframe.html [1]
Co-developed-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Tested-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> # x86_64
Tested-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> # x86_64, aarch64
Tested-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site> # x86_64, aarch64, loongarch64
Tested-by: Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.ibm.com> # s390x
The new riscv_hwprobe syscall also comes with a vDSO for faster answers
to your most common questions. Call in today to speak with a kernel
representative near you!
Signed-off-by: Evan Green <evan@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 7061 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from math/tgmath.h,
support/tst-support-open-dev-null-range.c, and
sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-vec.S, to work around the following
obscure pre-commit check failure diagnostics from Savannah. I don't
know why I run into these diagnostics whereas others evidently do not.
remote: *** 912-#endif
remote: *** 913:
remote: *** 914-
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
...
remote: *** error: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/statx_cp.c: trailing lines
The powerpc optimization to provide a fast stacktrace requires some
ad-hoc code to handle Linux signal frames and the change is fragile
once the kernel decides to slight change its execution sequence [1].
The generic implementation work as-is and it should be future proof
since the kernel provides the expected CFI directives in vDSO shared
page.
Checked on powerpc-linux-gnu, powerpc64le-linux-gnu, and
powerpc64-linux-gnu.
[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-January/122027.html
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 6694 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from benchtests/bench-pthread-locks.c
and iconvdata/tst-iconv-big5-hkscs-to-2ucs4.c, to work around this
diagnostic from Savannah:
remote: *** pre-commit check failed ...
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
No architecture currently defines the vDSO symbol. On archictures
with 64-bit time_t the HAVE_CLOCK_GETRES_VSYSCALL is renamed to
HAVE_CLOCK_GETRES64_VSYSCALL, it simplifies clock_gettime code.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
No architecture currently defines the vDSO symbol. On architectures
with 64-bit time_t the HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME_VSYSCALL is renamed to
HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME64_VSYSCALL, it simplifies clock_gettime code.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
This patch moves the vDSO setup from libc to loader code, just after
the vDSO link_map setup. For static case the initialization
is moved to _dl_non_dynamic_init instead.
Instead of using the mangled pointer, the vDSO data is set as
attribute_relro (on _rtld_global_ro for shared or _dl_vdso_* for
static). It is read-only even with partial relro.
It fixes BZ#24967 now that the vDSO pointer is setup earlier than
malloc interposition is called.
Also, vDSO calls should not be a problem for static dlopen as
indicated by BZ#20802. The vDSO pointer would be zero-initialized
and the syscall will be issued instead.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu, aarch64-linux-gnu,
arm-linux-gnueabihf, powerpc64le-linux-gnu, powerpc64-linux-gnu,
powerpc-linux-gnu, s390x-linux-gnu, sparc64-linux-gnu, and
sparcv9-linux-gnu. I also run some tests on mips.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
