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<title>Implement strlcpy and strlcat [BZ #178]</title>
<updated>2023-06-14T16:10:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Weimer</name>
<email>fweimer@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2023-06-14T16:10:08+00:00</published>
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These functions are about to be added to POSIX, under Austin Group
issue 986.

The fortified strlcat implementation does not raise SIGABRT if the
destination buffer does not contain a null terminator, it just
inherits the non-failing regular strlcat behavior.

Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar &lt;siddhesh@sourceware.org&gt;
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These functions are about to be added to POSIX, under Austin Group
issue 986.

The fortified strlcat implementation does not raise SIGABRT if the
destination buffer does not contain a null terminator, it just
inherits the non-failing regular strlcat behavior.

Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar &lt;siddhesh@sourceware.org&gt;
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<title>&lt;string.h&gt;: Make strchrnul, strcasestr, memmem available by default</title>
<updated>2023-04-06T14:41:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Weimer</name>
<email>fweimer@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2023-04-06T14:40:44+00:00</published>
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FreeBSD makes them available by default, too, so there does not seem
to be a reason to restrict these functions to _GNU_SOURCE.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
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FreeBSD makes them available by default, too, so there does not seem
to be a reason to restrict these functions to _GNU_SOURCE.

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  &lt;adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights</title>
<updated>2023-01-06T21:14:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joseph Myers</name>
<email>joseph@codesourcery.com</email>
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<published>2023-01-06T21:08:04+00:00</published>
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<title>string.h: Fix boolean spelling in comments</title>
<updated>2022-06-03T17:22:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H.J. Lu</name>
<email>hjl.tools@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2022-06-03T17:22:38+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights</title>
<updated>2022-01-01T19:40:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Eggert</name>
<email>eggert@cs.ucla.edu</email>
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<published>2022-01-01T18:54:23+00:00</published>
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I used these shell commands:

../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc &amp;&amp; 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
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I used these shell commands:

../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc &amp;&amp; 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
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<title>String: Add support for __memcmpeq() ABI on all targets</title>
<updated>2021-10-26T21:51:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Noah Goldstein</name>
<email>goldstein.w.n@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-21T20:54:57+00:00</published>
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No bug.

This commit adds support for __memcmpeq() as a new ABI for all
targets. In this commit __memcmpeq() is implemented only as an alias
to the corresponding targets memcmp() implementation. __memcmpeq() is
added as a new symbol starting with GLIBC_2.35 and defined in string.h
with comments explaining its behavior. Basic tests that it is callable
and works where added in string/tester.c

As discussed in the proposal "Add new ABI '__memcmpeq()' to libc"
__memcmpeq() is essentially a reserved namespace for bcmp(). The means
is shares the same specifications as memcmp() except the return value
for non-equal byte sequences is any non-zero value. This is less
strict than memcmp()'s return value specification and can be better
optimized when a boolean return is all that is needed.

__memcmpeq() is meant to only be called by compilers if they can prove
that the return value of a memcmp() call is only used for its boolean
value.

All tests in string/tester.c passed. As well build succeeds on
x86_64-linux-gnu target.
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No bug.

This commit adds support for __memcmpeq() as a new ABI for all
targets. In this commit __memcmpeq() is implemented only as an alias
to the corresponding targets memcmp() implementation. __memcmpeq() is
added as a new symbol starting with GLIBC_2.35 and defined in string.h
with comments explaining its behavior. Basic tests that it is callable
and works where added in string/tester.c

As discussed in the proposal "Add new ABI '__memcmpeq()' to libc"
__memcmpeq() is essentially a reserved namespace for bcmp(). The means
is shares the same specifications as memcmp() except the return value
for non-equal byte sequences is any non-zero value. This is less
strict than memcmp()'s return value specification and can be better
optimized when a boolean return is all that is needed.

__memcmpeq() is meant to only be called by compilers if they can prove
that the return value of a memcmp() call is only used for its boolean
value.

All tests in string/tester.c passed. As well build succeeds on
x86_64-linux-gnu target.
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<entry>
<title>Correct access attribute on memfrob (bug 28475)</title>
<updated>2021-10-20T13:38:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joseph Myers</name>
<email>joseph@codesourcery.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-20T13:38:50+00:00</published>
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As noted in bug 28475, the access attribute on memfrob in &lt;string.h&gt;
is incorrect: the function both reads and writes the memory pointed to
by its argument, so it needs to use __read_write__, not
__write_only__.  This incorrect attribute results in a build failure
for accessing uninitialized memory for s390x-linux-gnu-O3 with
build-many-glibcs.py using GCC mainline.

Correct the attribute.  Fixing this shows up that some calls to
memfrob in elf/ tests are reading uninitialized memory; I'm not
entirely sure of the purpose of those calls, but guess they are about
ensuring that the stack space is indeed allocated at that point in the
function, and so it matters that they are calling a function whose
semantics are unknown to the compiler.  Thus, change the first memfrob
call in those tests to use explicit_bzero instead, as suggested by
Florian in
&lt;https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-October/132119.html&gt;,
to avoid the use of uninitialized memory.

Tested for x86_64, and with build-many-glibcs.py (GCC mainline) for
s390x-linux-gnu-O3.
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As noted in bug 28475, the access attribute on memfrob in &lt;string.h&gt;
is incorrect: the function both reads and writes the memory pointed to
by its argument, so it needs to use __read_write__, not
__write_only__.  This incorrect attribute results in a build failure
for accessing uninitialized memory for s390x-linux-gnu-O3 with
build-many-glibcs.py using GCC mainline.

Correct the attribute.  Fixing this shows up that some calls to
memfrob in elf/ tests are reading uninitialized memory; I'm not
entirely sure of the purpose of those calls, but guess they are about
ensuring that the stack space is indeed allocated at that point in the
function, and so it matters that they are calling a function whose
semantics are unknown to the compiler.  Thus, change the first memfrob
call in those tests to use explicit_bzero instead, as suggested by
Florian in
&lt;https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-October/132119.html&gt;,
to avoid the use of uninitialized memory.

Tested for x86_64, and with build-many-glibcs.py (GCC mainline) for
s390x-linux-gnu-O3.
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<entry>
<title>Don't add access size hints to fortifiable functions</title>
<updated>2021-10-20T03:03:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Siddhesh Poyarekar</name>
<email>siddhesh@sourceware.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-12T06:59:13+00:00</published>
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In the context of a function definition, the size hints imply that the
size of an object pointed to by one parameter is another parameter.
This doesn't make sense for the fortified versions of the functions
since that's the bit it's trying to validate.

This is harmless with __builtin_object_size since it has fairly simple
semantics when it comes to objects passed as function parameters.
With __builtin_dynamic_object_size we could (as my patchset for gcc[1]
already does) use the access attribute to determine the object size in
the general case but it misleads the fortified functions.

Basically the problem occurs when access attributes are present on
regular functions that have inline fortified definitions to generate
_chk variants; the attributes get inherited by these definitions,
causing problems when analyzing them.  For example with poll(fds, nfds,
timeout), nfds is hinted using the __attr_access as being the size of
fds.

Now, when analyzing the inline function definition in bits/poll2.h, the
compiler sees that nfds is the size of fds and tries to use that
information in the function body.  In _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 case, where the
object size could be a non-constant expression, this information results
in the conclusion that nfds is the size of fds, which defeats the
purpose of the implementation because we're trying to check here if nfds
does indeed represent the size of fds.  Hence for this case, it is best
to not have the access attribute.

With the attributes gone, the expression evaluation should get delayed
until the function is actually inlined into its destinations.

Disable the access attribute for fortified function inline functions
when building at _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 to make this work better.  The
access attributes remain for the _chk variants since they can be used
by the compiler to warn when the caller is passing invalid arguments.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2021-October/581125.html

Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar &lt;siddhesh@sourceware.org&gt;
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In the context of a function definition, the size hints imply that the
size of an object pointed to by one parameter is another parameter.
This doesn't make sense for the fortified versions of the functions
since that's the bit it's trying to validate.

This is harmless with __builtin_object_size since it has fairly simple
semantics when it comes to objects passed as function parameters.
With __builtin_dynamic_object_size we could (as my patchset for gcc[1]
already does) use the access attribute to determine the object size in
the general case but it misleads the fortified functions.

Basically the problem occurs when access attributes are present on
regular functions that have inline fortified definitions to generate
_chk variants; the attributes get inherited by these definitions,
causing problems when analyzing them.  For example with poll(fds, nfds,
timeout), nfds is hinted using the __attr_access as being the size of
fds.

Now, when analyzing the inline function definition in bits/poll2.h, the
compiler sees that nfds is the size of fds and tries to use that
information in the function body.  In _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 case, where the
object size could be a non-constant expression, this information results
in the conclusion that nfds is the size of fds, which defeats the
purpose of the implementation because we're trying to check here if nfds
does indeed represent the size of fds.  Hence for this case, it is best
to not have the access attribute.

With the attributes gone, the expression evaluation should get delayed
until the function is actually inlined into its destinations.

Disable the access attribute for fortified function inline functions
when building at _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 to make this work better.  The
access attributes remain for the _chk variants since they can be used
by the compiler to warn when the caller is passing invalid arguments.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2021-October/581125.html

Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar &lt;siddhesh@sourceware.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrights</title>
<updated>2021-01-02T20:17:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Eggert</name>
<email>eggert@cs.ucla.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-02T19:32:25+00:00</published>
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I used these shell commands:

../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc &amp;&amp; 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
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I used these shell commands:

../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc &amp;&amp; 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
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<entry>
<title>string: Add strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np</title>
<updated>2020-07-07T18:02:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adhemerval Zanella</name>
<email>adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-18T20:41:25+00:00</published>
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The strerrorname_np returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
while strerrordesc_np returns string describing error number (e.g
"Invalid argument" for EINVAL).  Different than strerror,
strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description,
both functions return NULL for an invalid error number.

They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
thread and async-signal safe.  These functions are GNU extensions.

Checked on x86-64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu, powerpc64le-linux-gnu,
and s390x-linux-gnu.

Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell &lt;carlos@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell &lt;carlos@redhat.com&gt;
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The strerrorname_np returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
while strerrordesc_np returns string describing error number (e.g
"Invalid argument" for EINVAL).  Different than strerror,
strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description,
both functions return NULL for an invalid error number.

They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
thread and async-signal safe.  These functions are GNU extensions.

Checked on x86-64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu, powerpc64le-linux-gnu,
and s390x-linux-gnu.

Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell &lt;carlos@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell &lt;carlos@redhat.com&gt;
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