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<title>Move getnameinfo from 'inet' to 'nss'</title>
<updated>2023-10-24T10:31:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arjun Shankar</name>
<email>arjun@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-02T12:55:28+00:00</published>
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getnameinfo is an entry points for nss functionality.  This commit moves
it from the 'inet' subdirectory to 'nss'.  The corresponding Versions
entry is also moved from 'posix' into 'nss'.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
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getnameinfo is an entry points for nss functionality.  This commit moves
it from the 'inet' subdirectory to 'nss'.  The corresponding Versions
entry is also moved from 'posix' into 'nss'.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Move getaddrinfo from 'posix' into 'nss'</title>
<updated>2023-10-24T10:31:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arjun Shankar</name>
<email>arjun@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-02T12:55:27+00:00</published>
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getaddrinfo is an entry point for nss functionality.  This commit moves
it from 'sysdeps/posix' to 'nss', gets rid of the stub in 'posix', and
moves all associated tests as well.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
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getaddrinfo is an entry point for nss functionality.  This commit moves
it from 'sysdeps/posix' to 'nss', gets rid of the stub in 'posix', and
moves all associated tests as well.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove 'grp' and merge into 'nss' and 'posix'</title>
<updated>2023-10-24T10:30:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arjun Shankar</name>
<email>arjun@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-02T12:55:15+00:00</published>
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The majority of grp routines are entry points for nss functionality.
This commit removes the 'grp' subdirectory and moves all nss-relevant
functionality and all tests to 'nss', and the 'setgroups' stub into
'posix' (alongside the 'getgroups' stub).  References to grp/ are
accordingly changed.  In addition, compat-initgroups.c, a fallback
implementation of initgroups is renamed to initgroups-fallback.c so that
the build system does not confuse it for nss_compat/compat-initgroups.c.

Build time improves very slightly; e.g. down from an average of 45.5s to
44.5s on an 8-thread mobile x86_64 CPU.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
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The majority of grp routines are entry points for nss functionality.
This commit removes the 'grp' subdirectory and moves all nss-relevant
functionality and all tests to 'nss', and the 'setgroups' stub into
'posix' (alongside the 'getgroups' stub).  References to grp/ are
accordingly changed.  In addition, compat-initgroups.c, a fallback
implementation of initgroups is renamed to initgroups-fallback.c so that
the build system does not confuse it for nss_compat/compat-initgroups.c.

Build time improves very slightly; e.g. down from an average of 45.5s to
44.5s on an 8-thread mobile x86_64 CPU.
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>posix: Replace posix_spawnattr_tc{get,set}pgrp_np with posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np</title>
<updated>2022-02-02T11:34:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adhemerval Zanella</name>
<email>adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-27T13:11:30+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;carlos@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell &lt;carlos@redhat.com&gt;
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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 &lt;carlos@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell &lt;carlos@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>posix: Add terminal control setting support for posix_spawn</title>
<updated>2022-01-25T17:07:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adhemerval Zanella</name>
<email>adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-14T17:41:31+00:00</published>
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Currently there is no proper way to set the controlling terminal through
posix_spawn in race free manner [1].  This forces shell implementations
to keep using fork+exec when launching background process groups,
even when using posix_spawn yields better performance.

This patch adds a new GNU extension so the creating process can
configure the created process terminal group.  This is done with a new
flag, POSIX_SPAWN_TCSETPGROUP, along with two new attribute functions:
posix_spawnattr_tcsetpgrp_np, and posix_spawnattr_tcgetpgrp_np.
The function sets a new attribute, spawn-tcgroupfd, that references to
the controlling terminal.

The controlling terminal is set after the spawn-pgroup attribute, and
uses the spawn-tcgroupfd along with current creating process group
(so it is composable with POSIX_SPAWN_SETPGROUP).

To create a process and set the controlling terminal, one can use the
following sequence:

    posix_spawnattr_t attr;
    posix_spawnattr_init (&amp;attr);
    posix_spawnattr_setflags (&amp;attr, POSIX_SPAWN_TCSETPGROUP);
    posix_spawnattr_tcsetpgrp_np (&amp;attr, tcfd);

If the idea is also to create a new process groups:

    posix_spawnattr_t attr;
    posix_spawnattr_init (&amp;attr);
    posix_spawnattr_setflags (&amp;attr, POSIX_SPAWN_TCSETPGROUP
				     | POSIX_SPAWN_SETPGROUP);
    posix_spawnattr_tcsetpgrp_np (&amp;attr, tcfd);
    posix_spawnattr_setpgroup (&amp;attr, 0);

The controlling terminal file descriptor is ignored if the new flag is
not set.

This interface is slight different than the one provided by QNX [2],
which only provides the POSIX_SPAWN_TCSETPGROUP flag.  The QNX
documentation does not specify how the controlling terminal is obtained
nor how it iteracts with POSIX_SPAWN_SETPGROUP.  Since a glibc
implementation is library based, it is more straightforward and avoid
requires additional file descriptor operations to request the caller
to setup the controlling terminal file descriptor (and it also allows
a bit less error handling by posix_spawn).

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-linux-gnu.

[1] https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/79
[2] https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/7.0.0/index.html#com.qnx.doc.neutrino.lib_ref/topic/p/posix_spawn.html

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell &lt;carlos@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell &lt;carlos@redhat.com&gt;
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Currently there is no proper way to set the controlling terminal through
posix_spawn in race free manner [1].  This forces shell implementations
to keep using fork+exec when launching background process groups,
even when using posix_spawn yields better performance.

This patch adds a new GNU extension so the creating process can
configure the created process terminal group.  This is done with a new
flag, POSIX_SPAWN_TCSETPGROUP, along with two new attribute functions:
posix_spawnattr_tcsetpgrp_np, and posix_spawnattr_tcgetpgrp_np.
The function sets a new attribute, spawn-tcgroupfd, that references to
the controlling terminal.

The controlling terminal is set after the spawn-pgroup attribute, and
uses the spawn-tcgroupfd along with current creating process group
(so it is composable with POSIX_SPAWN_SETPGROUP).

To create a process and set the controlling terminal, one can use the
following sequence:

    posix_spawnattr_t attr;
    posix_spawnattr_init (&amp;attr);
    posix_spawnattr_setflags (&amp;attr, POSIX_SPAWN_TCSETPGROUP);
    posix_spawnattr_tcsetpgrp_np (&amp;attr, tcfd);

If the idea is also to create a new process groups:

    posix_spawnattr_t attr;
    posix_spawnattr_init (&amp;attr);
    posix_spawnattr_setflags (&amp;attr, POSIX_SPAWN_TCSETPGROUP
				     | POSIX_SPAWN_SETPGROUP);
    posix_spawnattr_tcsetpgrp_np (&amp;attr, tcfd);
    posix_spawnattr_setpgroup (&amp;attr, 0);

The controlling terminal file descriptor is ignored if the new flag is
not set.

This interface is slight different than the one provided by QNX [2],
which only provides the POSIX_SPAWN_TCSETPGROUP flag.  The QNX
documentation does not specify how the controlling terminal is obtained
nor how it iteracts with POSIX_SPAWN_SETPGROUP.  Since a glibc
implementation is library based, it is more straightforward and avoid
requires additional file descriptor operations to request the caller
to setup the controlling terminal file descriptor (and it also allows
a bit less error handling by posix_spawn).

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-linux-gnu.

[1] https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/issues/79
[2] https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/7.0.0/index.html#com.qnx.doc.neutrino.lib_ref/topic/p/posix_spawn.html

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell &lt;carlos@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell &lt;carlos@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>posix: Add posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np</title>
<updated>2021-07-08T17:08:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adhemerval Zanella</name>
<email>adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-10T15:26:33+00:00</published>
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This patch adds a way to close a range of file descriptors on
posix_spawn as a new file action.  The API is similar to the one
provided by Solaris 11 [1], where the file action causes the all open
file descriptors greater than or equal to input on to be closed when
the new process is spawned.

The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np is safe to be
implemented by iterating over /proc/self/fd, since the Linux spawni.c
helper process does not use CLONE_FILES, so its has own file descriptor
table and any failure (in /proc operation) aborts the process creation
and returns an error to the caller.

I am aware that this file action might be redundant to the current
approach of POSIX in promoting O_CLOEXEC in more interfaces. However
O_CLOEXEC is still not the default and for some specific usages, the
caller needs to close all possible file descriptors to avoid them
leaking.  Some examples are CPython (discussed in BZ#10353) and OpenJDK
jspawnhelper [2] (where OpenJDK spawns a helper process to exactly
closes all file descriptors).  Most likely any environment which calls
functions that might open file descriptor under the hood and aim to use
posix_spawn might face the same requirement.

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-linux-gnu on kernel 5.11 and 4.15.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36874/posix-spawn-file-actions-addclosefrom-np-3c.html
[2] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/childproc.c#L82
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This patch adds a way to close a range of file descriptors on
posix_spawn as a new file action.  The API is similar to the one
provided by Solaris 11 [1], where the file action causes the all open
file descriptors greater than or equal to input on to be closed when
the new process is spawned.

The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np is safe to be
implemented by iterating over /proc/self/fd, since the Linux spawni.c
helper process does not use CLONE_FILES, so its has own file descriptor
table and any failure (in /proc operation) aborts the process creation
and returns an error to the caller.

I am aware that this file action might be redundant to the current
approach of POSIX in promoting O_CLOEXEC in more interfaces. However
O_CLOEXEC is still not the default and for some specific usages, the
caller needs to close all possible file descriptors to avoid them
leaking.  Some examples are CPython (discussed in BZ#10353) and OpenJDK
jspawnhelper [2] (where OpenJDK spawns a helper process to exactly
closes all file descriptors).  Most likely any environment which calls
functions that might open file descriptor under the hood and aim to use
posix_spawn might face the same requirement.

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-linux-gnu on kernel 5.11 and 4.15.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36874/posix-spawn-file-actions-addclosefrom-np-3c.html
[2] https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/childproc.c#L82
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<entry>
<title>posix: Add _Fork [BZ #4737]</title>
<updated>2021-06-28T18:55:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adhemerval Zanella</name>
<email>adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-19T12:26:31+00:00</published>
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Austin Group issue 62 [1] dropped the async-signal-safe requirement
for fork and provided a async-signal-safe _Fork replacement that
does not run the atfork handlers.  It will be included in the next
POSIX standard.

It allow to close a long standing issue to make fork AS-safe (BZ#4737).
As indicated on the bug, besides the internal lock for the atfork
handlers itself; there is no guarantee that the handlers itself will
not introduce more AS-safe issues.

The idea is synchronize fork with the required internal locks to allow
children in multithread processes to use mostly of standard function
(even though POSIX states only AS-safe function should be used).  On
signal handles, _Fork should be used intead and only AS-safe functions
should be used.

For testing, the new tst-_Fork only check basic usage.  I also added
a new tst-mallocfork3 which uses the same strategy to check for
deadlock of tst-mallocfork2 but using threads instead of subprocesses
(and it does deadlock if it replaces _Fork with fork).

[1] https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=62
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Austin Group issue 62 [1] dropped the async-signal-safe requirement
for fork and provided a async-signal-safe _Fork replacement that
does not run the atfork handlers.  It will be included in the next
POSIX standard.

It allow to close a long standing issue to make fork AS-safe (BZ#4737).
As indicated on the bug, besides the internal lock for the atfork
handlers itself; there is no guarantee that the handlers itself will
not introduce more AS-safe issues.

The idea is synchronize fork with the required internal locks to allow
children in multithread processes to use mostly of standard function
(even though POSIX states only AS-safe function should be used).  On
signal handles, _Fork should be used intead and only AS-safe functions
should be used.

For testing, the new tst-_Fork only check basic usage.  I also added
a new tst-mallocfork3 which uses the same strategy to check for
deadlock of tst-mallocfork2 but using threads instead of subprocesses
(and it does deadlock if it replaces _Fork with fork).

[1] https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=62
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Add missing symbols to Version files</title>
<updated>2021-06-02T05:32:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Weimer</name>
<email>fweimer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-02T05:32:19+00:00</published>
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Some symbols have explicit versioned_symbol or compat_symbol markers
in the sources, but no corresponding entry in the Versions files.
This presently works because the local: * directive is only applied
to the base version.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
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Some symbols have explicit versioned_symbol or compat_symbol markers
in the sources, but no corresponding entry in the Versions files.
This presently works because the local: * directive is only applied
to the base version.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>linux: Add execveat system call wrapper</title>
<updated>2021-05-03T19:46:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandra Hájková</name>
<email>alexandra.khirnova@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-03T16:35:10+00:00</published>
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It operates similar to execve and it is is already used to implement
fexecve without requiring /proc to be mounted.  However, different
than fexecve, if the syscall is not supported by the kernel an error
is returned instead of trying a fallback.

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and powerpc64le-linux-gnu.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
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It operates similar to execve and it is is already used to implement
fexecve without requiring /proc to be mounted.  However, different
than fexecve, if the syscall is not supported by the kernel an error
is returned instead of trying a fallback.

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and powerpc64le-linux-gnu.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>linux: Require /dev/shm as the shared memory file system</title>
<updated>2021-02-08T17:10:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Weimer</name>
<email>fweimer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-03T11:55:13+00:00</published>
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Previously, glibc would pick an arbitrary tmpfs file system from
/proc/mounts if /dev/shm was not available.  This could lead to
an unsuitable file system being picked for the backing storage for
shm_open, sem_open, and related functions.

This patch introduces a new function, __shm_get_name, which builds
the file name under the appropriate (now hard-coded) directory.  It is
called from the various shm_* and sem_* function.  Unlike the
SHM_GET_NAME macro it replaces, the callers handle the return values
and errno updates.  shm-directory.c is moved directly into the posix
subdirectory because it can be implemented directly using POSIX
functionality.  It resides in libc because it is needed by both
librt and nptl/htl.

In the sem_open implementation, tmpfname is initialized directly
from a string constant.  This happens to remove one alloca call.

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
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Previously, glibc would pick an arbitrary tmpfs file system from
/proc/mounts if /dev/shm was not available.  This could lead to
an unsuitable file system being picked for the backing storage for
shm_open, sem_open, and related functions.

This patch introduces a new function, __shm_get_name, which builds
the file name under the appropriate (now hard-coded) directory.  It is
called from the various shm_* and sem_* function.  Unlike the
SHM_GET_NAME macro it replaces, the callers handle the return values
and errno updates.  shm-directory.c is moved directly into the posix
subdirectory because it can be implemented directly using POSIX
functionality.  It resides in libc because it is needed by both
librt and nptl/htl.

In the sem_open implementation, tmpfname is initialized directly
from a string constant.  This happens to remove one alloca call.

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.
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