History log of /freebsd-current/libexec/rtld-elf/xmalloc.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# feaae6ba 29-Jul-2023 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

rtld: switch from malloc_aligned() to __crt_aligned_alloc()

Use regular free(), since it works now.

Reviewed by: markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41150


# b3e76948 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line .h pattern

Remove /^\s*\*\n \*\s+\$FreeBSD\$$\n/


# 4d846d26 10-May-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

spdx: The BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier is obsolete, drop -FreeBSD

The SPDX folks have obsoleted the BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD identifier. Catch
up to that fact and revert to their recommended match of BSD-2-Clause.

Discussed with: pfg
MFC After: 3 days
Sponsored by: Netflix


# 2f06c66a 04-Apr-2020 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Make p_vaddr % p_align == p_offset % p_align for (some) TLS segments.

See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24606 for the test case.
See https://reviews.llvm.org/D64930 for the background and more discussion.

Also this fixes another bug in malloc_aligned() where total size of
the allocated memory might be not enough to fit the aligned requested
block after the initial pointer is incremented by the pointer size.

Reviewed by: bdragon
Tested by: antoine (exp-run PR 244866), bdragon, emaste
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21163


# b54a59f3 30-Jun-2019 Alex Richardson <arichardson@FreeBSD.org>

Reduce size of rtld by 22% by pulling in less code from libc

Currently RTLD is linked against libc_nossp_pic which means that any libc
symbol used in rtld can pull in a lot of depedencies. This was causing
symbol such as __libc_interposing and all the pthread stubs to be included
in RTLD even though they are not required. It turns out most of these
dependencies can easily be avoided by providing overrides inside of rtld.

This change is motivated by CHERI, where we have an experimental ABI that
requires additional relocation processing to allow the use of function
pointers inside of rtld. Instead of adding this self-relocation code to
RTLD I attempted to remove most function pointers from RTLD and discovered
that most of them came from the libc dependencies instead of being actually
used inside rtld.

A nice side-effect of this change is that rtld is now 22% smaller on amd64.

text data bss dec hex filename
0x21eb6 0xce0 0xe60 145910 239f6 /home/alr48/ld-elf-x86.before.so.1
0x1a6ed 0x728 0xdd8 113645 1bbed /home/alr48/ld-elf-x86.after.so.1

The number of R_X86_64_RELATIVE relocations that need to be processed on
startup has also gone down from 368 to 187 (almost 50% less).

Reviewed By: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20663


# 1a3b2ebf 29-Jan-2019 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Adjust posix symbols from rtld-elf/malloc.c with the __crt_ prefix.

This allows to reuse the allocator in other environments that get
malloc(3) and related functions from libc or interposer.

MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18988


# e6209940 27-Nov-2017 Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>

libexec: adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.

The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.

No functional change intended.


# eab68f79 22-Feb-2014 David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org>

Increase alignment to size of pointer if the alignment is too small.
Some modules do not align data at least to size of pointer, they uses a
smaller alignment, but our pointer should be aligned to its native
boundary, otherwise on some platforms, hardware alignment checking
will cause bus error.


# 209782e0 20-Feb-2014 David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org>

malloc_aligned() may not leave enough space for pointer to allocated memory,
saving the pointer will overwrite bytes belongs to another memory block
unexpectly, to fix the problem, use (allocated address + sizeof(void *)) as
initial value, and slip to next aligned address, so maximum extra bytes is
sizeof(void *) + align - 1.

Tested by: Andre Albsmeier < mail at ma17 dot ata dot myota dot orgndre >


# dfe296c4 06-Dec-2013 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Build an allocator for the aligned memory on top of the rtld-private
malloc.

Reviewed by: kan
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week


# f7b34303 22-Mar-2012 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Implement xstrdup() using strlen()/xmalloc()/memcpy() already
presented in rtld, instead of pulling in libc strdup().

Submitted by: bde
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 758ffbfa 22-Mar-2012 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Use xmalloc() instead of malloc() in the places where malloc() calls
are assumed to not fail.

Make the xcalloc() calling conventions follow the calloc(3) calling
conventions and replace unchecked calls to calloc() with calls to
xcalloc().

Remove redundand declarations from xmalloc.c, which are already
present in rtld.h.

Reviewed by: kan
Discussed with: bde
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 0e9a2605 24-Aug-2011 Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>

Rtld links with the specially built pic static libc library to get some
C runtime services, like printf(). Unfortunately, the multithread-safeness
measures in the libc do not work in rtld environment.

Rip the kernel printf() implementation and use it in the rtld instead of
libc version. This printf does not require any shared global data and thus
is mt-safe. Systematically use rtld_printf() and related functions, remove
the calls to err(3).

Note that stdio is still pulled from libc due to libmap implementaion using
fopen(). This is safe but unoptimal, and can be changed later.

Reported and tested by: pgj
Diagnosed and reviewed by: kan (previous version)
Approved by: re (bz)


# a7d5f7eb 19-Oct-2010 Jamie Gritton <jamie@FreeBSD.org>

A new jail(8) with a configuration file, to replace the work currently done
by /etc/rc.d/jail.


# fe0506d7 09-Mar-2010 Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>

Create the altix project branch. The altix project will add support
for the SGI Altix 350 to FreeBSD/ia64. The hardware used for porting
is a two-module system, consisting of a base compute module and a
CPU expansion module. SGI's NUMAFlex architecture can be an excellent
platform to test CPU affinity and NUMA-aware features in FreeBSD.


# d7f03759 19-Oct-2008 Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@FreeBSD.org>

- Import the HEAD csup code which is the basis for the cvsmode work.


# 5407dd5b 18-Jun-2003 Matthew N. Dodd <mdodd@FreeBSD.org>

Add function prototypes.


# 7f3dea24 27-Aug-1999 Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 3124c3e0 07-Mar-1998 John Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.org>

Import the ELF dynamic linker. This is the ElfKit version with
quite a few enhancements and bug fixes. There are still some known
deficiencies, but it should be adequate to get us started with ELF.

Submitted by: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>