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2019-03-10fix invalid-/double-/use-after-free in new dlopen ctor executionRich Felker1-1/+2
this affected the error path where dlopen successfully found and loaded the requested dso and all its dependencies, but failed to resolve one or more relocations, causing the operation to fail after storage for the ctor queue was allocated. commit 188759bbee057aa94db2bbb7cf7f5855f3b9ab53 wrongly put the free for the ctor_queue array in the error path inside a loop over each loaded dso that needed to be backed-out, rather than just doing it once. in addition, the exit path also observed the ctor_queue pointer still being nonzero, and would attempt to call ctors on the backed-out dsos unless the double-free crashed the process first.
2019-03-05don't reject unknown/future flags in sigaltstack, allow SS_AUTODISARMRich Felker1-1/+1
historically, and likely accidentally, sigaltstack was specified to fail with EINVAL if any flag bit other than SS_DISABLE was set. the resolution of Austin Group issue 1187 fixes this so that the requirement is only to fail for SS_ONSTACK (which cannot be set) or "invalid" flags. Linux fails on the kernel side for invalid flags, but historically accepts SS_ONSTACK as a no-op, so it needs to be rejected in userspace still. with this change, the Linux-specific SS_AUTODISARM, provided since commit 9680e1d03a794b0e0d5815c749478228ed40a36d but unusable due to rejection at runtime, is now usable.
2019-03-03avoid malloc of ctor queue for programs with no external depsRich Felker1-2/+9
together with the previous two commits, this completes restoration of the property that dynamic-linked apps with no external deps and no tls have no failure paths before entry.
2019-03-03avoid malloc of deps arrays for ldso and vdsoRich Felker1-0/+3
neither has or can have any dependencies, but since commit 403555690775f7c8806372644f543518e6664e3b, gratuitous zero-length deps arrays were being allocated for them. use a dummy array instead.
2019-03-03avoid malloc of deps array for programs with no external depsRich Felker1-3/+10
traditionally, we've provided a guarantee that dynamic-linked applications with no external dependencies (nothing but libc) and no thread-local storage have no failure paths before the entry point. normally, thanks to reclaim_gaps, such a malloc will not require a syscall anyway, but if segment alignment is unlucky, it might. use a builtin array for this common special case.
2019-03-03fix malloc misuse for startup ctor queue, breakage on fdpic archsRich Felker1-5/+9
in the case where malloc is being replaced, it's not valid to call malloc between final relocations and main app's crt1 entry point; on fdpic archs the main app's entry point will not yet have performed the self-fixups necessary to call its code. to fix, reorder queue_ctors before final relocations. an alternative solution would be doing the allocation from __libc_start_init, after the entry point but before any ctors run. this is less desirable, since it would leave a call to malloc that might be provided by the application happening at startup when doing so can be easily avoided.
2019-03-03synchronize shared library dtor exec against concurrent loads/ctorsRich Felker1-1/+17
previously, going way back, there was simply no synchronization here. a call to exit concurrent with ctor execution from dlopen could cause a dtor to execute concurrently with its corresponding ctor, or could cause dtors for newly-constructed libraries to be skipped. introduce a shutting_down state that blocks further ctor execution, producing the quiescence the dtor execution loop needs to ensure any kind of consistency, and that blocks further calls to dlopen so that a call into dlopen from a dtor cannot deadlock. better approaches to some of this may be possible, but the changes here at least make things safe.
2019-03-03overhaul shared library ctor execution for dependency order, concurrencyRich Felker1-17/+101
previously, shared library constructors at program start and dlopen time were executed in reverse load order. some libraries, however, rely on a depth-first dependency order, which most other dynamic linker implementations provide. this is a much more reasonable, less arbitrary order, and it turns out to have much better properties with regard to how slow-running ctors affect multi-threaded programs, and how recursive dlopen behaves. this commit builds on previous work tracking direct dependencies of each dso (commit 403555690775f7c8806372644f543518e6664e3b), and performs a topological sort on the dependency graph at load time while the main ldso lock is held and before success is committed, producing a queue of constructors needed by the newly-loaded dso (or main application). in the case of circular dependencies, the dependency chain is simply broken at points where it becomes circular. when the ctor queue is run, the init_fini_lock is held only for iteration purposes; it's released during execution of each ctor, so that arbitrarily-long-running application code no longer runs with a lock held in the caller. this prevents a dlopen with slow ctors in one thread from arbitrarily delaying other threads that call dlopen. fully-independent ctors can run concurrently; when multiple threads call dlopen with a shared dependency, one will end up executing the ctor while the other waits on a condvar for it to finish. another corner case improved by these changes is recursive dlopen (call from a ctor). previously, recursive calls to dlopen could cause a ctor for a library to be executed before the ctor for its dependency, even when there was no relation between the calling library and the library it was loading, simply due to the naive reverse-load-order traversal. now, we can guarantee that recursive dlopen in non-circular-dependency usage preserves the desired ctor execution order properties, and that even in circular usage, at worst the libraries whose ctors call dlopen will fail to have completed construction when ctors that depend on them run. init_fini_lock is changed to a normal, non-recursive mutex, since it is no longer held while calling back into application code.
2019-03-02record preloaded libraries as direct pseudo-dependencies of main appRich Felker1-4/+11
this makes calling dlsym on the main app more consistent with the global symbol table (load order), and is a prerequisite for dependency-order ctor execution to work correctly with LD_PRELOAD.
2019-03-02fix unsafety of new ldso dep tracking in presence of malloc replacementRich Felker1-1/+13
commit 403555690775f7c8806372644f543518e6664e3b introduced runtime realloc of an array that may have been allocated before symbols were resolved outside of libc, which is invalid if the allocator has been replaced. track this condition and manually copy if needed.
2019-02-27fix and overhaul dlsym depedency order, always record direct depsRich Felker1-34/+79
dlsym with an explicit handle is specified to use "dependency order", a breadth-first search rooted at the argument. this has always been implemented by iterating a flattened dependency list built at dlopen time. however, the logic for building this list was completely wrong except in trivial cases; it simply used the list of libraries loaded since a given library, and their direct dependencies, as that library's dependencies, which could result in misordering, wrongful omission of deep dependencies from the search, and wrongful inclusion of unrelated libraries in the search. further, libraries did not have any recorded list of resolved dependencies until they were explicitly dlopened, meaning that DT_NEEDED entries had to be resolved again whenever a library participated as a dependency of more than one dlopened library. with this overhaul, the resolved direct dependency list of each library is always recorded when it is first loaded, and can be extended to a full flattened breadth-first search list if dlopen is called on the library. the extension is performed using the direct dependency list as a queue and appending copies of the direct dependency list of each dependency in the queue, excluding duplicates, until the end of the queue is reached. the direct deps remain available for future use as the initial subarray of the full deps array. first-load logic in dlopen is updated to match these changes, and clarified.
2019-02-27fix crash/misbehavior from oob read in new dynamic tls installationRich Felker1-1/+1
code introduced in commit 9d44b6460ab603487dab4d916342d9ba4467e6b9 wrongly attempted to read past the end of the currently-installed dtv to determine if a dso provides new, not-already-installed tls. this logic was probably leftover from an earlier draft of the code that wrongly installed the new dtv before populating it. it would work if we instead queried the new, not-yet-installed dtv, but instead, replace the incorrect check with a simple range check against old_cnt. this also catches modules that have no tls at all with a single condition.
2019-02-25fix crash in new dynamic tls installation when last dep lacks tlsRich Felker1-1/+4
code introduced in commit 9d44b6460ab603487dab4d916342d9ba4467e6b9 wrongly assumed the dso list tail was the right place to find new dtv storage. however, this is only true if the last-loaded dependency has tls. the correct place to get it is the dso corresponding to the tls module list tail. introduce a container_of macro to get it, and use it. ultimately, dynamic tls allocation should be refactored so that this is not an issue. there is no reason to be allocating new dtv space at each load_library; instead it could happen after all new libraries have been loaded but before they are committed. such changes may be made later, but this commit fixes the present regression.
2019-02-22add membarrier syscall wrapper, refactor dynamic tls install to use itRich Felker6-35/+111
the motivation for this change is twofold. first, it gets the fallback logic out of the dynamic linker, improving code readability and organization. second, it provides application code that wants to use the membarrier syscall, which depends on preregistration of intent before the process becomes multithreaded unless unbounded latency is acceptable, with a symbol that, when linked, ensures that this registration happens.
2019-02-22make thread list lock a recursive lockRich Felker1-11/+21
this is a prerequisite for factoring the membarrier fallback code into a function that can be called from a context with the thread list already locked or independently.
2019-02-22fix loop logic cruft in dynamic tls installationRich Felker1-1/+1
commit 9d44b6460ab603487dab4d916342d9ba4467e6b9 inadvertently contained leftover logic from a previous approach to the fallback signaling loop. it had no adverse effect, since j was always nonzero if the loop body was reachable, but it makes no sense to be there with the current approach to avoid signaling self.
2019-02-20fix spurious undefined behavior in getaddrinfoRich Felker1-3/+2
addressing &out[k].sa was arguably undefined, despite &out[k] being defined the slot one past the end of an array, since the member access .sa is intervening between the [] operator and the & operator.
2019-02-20fix invalid free of partial addrinfo list with multiple servicesRich Felker1-1/+1
the backindex stored by getaddrinfo to allow freeaddrinfo to perform partial-free wrongly used the address result index, rather than the output slot index, and thus was only valid when they were equal (nservs==1). patch based on report with proposed fix by Markus Wichmann.
2019-02-18install dynamic tls synchronously at dlopen, streamline accessRich Felker9-160/+86
previously, dynamic loading of new libraries with thread-local storage allocated the storage needed for all existing threads at load-time, precluding late failure that can't be handled, but left installation in existing threads to take place lazily on first access. this imposed an additional memory access and branch on every dynamic tls access, and imposed a requirement, which was not actually met, that the dynamic tlsdesc asm functions preserve all call-clobbered registers before calling C code to to install new dynamic tls on first access. the x86[_64] versions of this code wrongly omitted saving and restoring of fpu/vector registers, assuming the compiler would not generate anything using them in the called C code. the arm and aarch64 versions saved known existing registers, but failed to be future-proof against expansion of the register file. now that we track live threads in a list, it's possible to install the new dynamic tls for each thread at dlopen time. for the most part, synchronization is not needed, because if a thread has not synchronized with completion of the dlopen, there is no way it can meaningfully request access to a slot past the end of the old dtv, which remains valid for accessing slots which already existed. however, it is necessary to ensure that, if a thread sees its new dtv pointer, it sees correct pointers in each of the slots that existed prior to the dlopen. my understanding is that, on most real-world coherency architectures including all the ones we presently support, a built-in consume order guarantees this; however, don't rely on that. instead, the SYS_membarrier syscall is used to ensure that all threads see the stores to the slots of their new dtv prior to the installation of the new dtv. if it is not supported, the same is implemented in userspace via signals, using the same mechanism as __synccall. the __tls_get_addr function, variants, and dynamic tlsdesc asm functions are all updated to remove the fallback paths for claiming new dynamic tls, and are now all branch-free.
2019-02-17fix data race between new pthread_key_delete and dtor executionRich Felker1-2/+4
access to clear the entry in each thread's tsd array for the key being deleted was not synchronized with __pthread_tsd_run_dtors. I probably made this mistake from a mistaken belief that the thread list lock was held during the latter, which of course is not possible since it executes application code in a still-live-thread context. while we're at it, expand the interval during which signals are blocked to cover taking the write lock on key_lock, so that a signal at an inopportune time doesn't block forward progress of readers.
2019-02-16introduce namespace-safe rwlock aliases; use in pthread_key_createRich Felker9-20/+41
commit 84d061d5a31c9c773e29e1e2b1ffe8cb9557bc58 inadvertently introduced namespace violations by using the pthread-namespace rwlock functions in pthread_key_create, which is in turn used for C11 tss. fix that and possible future uses of rwlocks elsewhere.
2019-02-16rewrite pthread_key_delete to use global thread listRich Felker2-75/+19
with the availability of the thread list, there is no need to mark tsd key slots dirty and clean them up only when a free slot can't be found. instead, directly iterate threads and clear any value associated with the key being deleted. no synchronization is necessary for the clearing, since there is no way the slot can be accessed without having synchronized with the creation of a new key occupying the same slot, which is already sequenced after and synchronized with the deletion of the old key.
2019-02-16rewrite __synccall in terms of global thread listRich Felker3-124/+59
the __synccall mechanism provides stop-the-world synchronous execution of a callback in all threads of the process. it is used to implement multi-threaded setuid/setgid operations, since Linux lacks them at the kernel level, and for some other less-critical purposes. this change eliminates dependency on /proc/self/task to determine the set of live threads, which in addition to being an unwanted dependency and a potential point of resource-exhaustion failure, turned out to be inaccurate. test cases provided by Alexey Izbyshev showed that it could fail to reflect newly created threads. due to how the presignaling phase worked, this usually yielded a deadlock if hit, but in the worst case it could also result in threads being silently missed (allowed to continue running without executing the callback).
2019-02-15track all live threads in an AS-safe, fully-consistent linked listRich Felker7-43/+94
the hard problem here is unlinking threads from a list when they exit without creating a window of inconsistency where the kernel task for a thread still exists and is still executing instructions in userspace, but is not reflected in the list. the magic solution here is getting rid of per-thread exit futex addresses (set_tid_address), and instead using the exit futex to unlock the global thread list. since pthread_join can no longer see the thread enter a detach_state of EXITED (which depended on the exit futex address pointing to the detach_state), it must now observe the unlocking of the thread list lock before it can unmap the joined thread and return. it doesn't actually have to take the lock. for this, a __tl_sync primitive is offered, with a signature that will allow it to be enhanced for quick return even under contention on the lock, if needed. for now, the exiting thread always performs a futex wake on its detach_state. a future change could optimize this out except when there is already a joiner waiting. initial/dynamic variants of detached state no longer need to be tracked separately, since the futex address is always set to the global list lock, not a thread-local address that could become invalid on detached thread exit. all detached threads, however, must perform a second sigprocmask syscall to block implementation-internal signals, since locking the thread list with them already blocked is not permissible. the arch-independent C version of __unmapself no longer needs to take a lock or setup its own futex address to release the lock, since it must necessarily be called with the thread list lock already held, guaranteeing exclusive access to the temporary stack. changes to libc.threads_minus_1 no longer need to be atomic, since they are guarded by the thread list lock. it is largely vestigial at this point, and can be replaced with a cheaper boolean indicating whether the process is multithreaded at some point in the future.
2019-02-15always block signals for starting new threads, refactor start argsRich Felker4-68/+56
whether signals need to be blocked at thread start, and whether unblocking is necessary in the entry point function, has historically depended on intricacies of the cancellation design and on whether there are scheduling operations to perform on the new thread before its successful creation can be committed. future changes to track an AS-safe list of live threads will require signals to be blocked whenever changes are made to the list, so ... prior to commits b8742f32602add243ee2ce74d804015463726899 and 40bae2d32fd6f3ffea437fa745ad38a1fe77b27e, a signal mask for the entry function to restore was part of the pthread structure. it was removed to trim down the size of the structure, which both saved a small amount of stack space and improved code generation on archs where small immediate displacements are less costly than arbitrary ones, by limiting the range of offsets between the base of the thread structure, its members, and the thread pointer. these commits moved the saved mask to a special structure used only when special scheduling was needed, in which case the pthread_create caller and new thread had to synchronize with each other and could use this memory to pass a mask. this commit partially reverts the above two commits, but instead of putting the mask back in the pthread structure, it moves all "start argument" members out of the pthread structure, trimming it down further, and puts them in a separate structure passed on the new thread's stack. the code path for explicit scheduling of the new thread is also changed to synchronize with the calling thread in such a way to avoid spurious futex wakes.
2019-02-15for SIGEV_THREAD timer threads, replace signal handler with sigwaitinfoRich Felker2-21/+16
this eliminates some ugly hacks that were repurposing the start function and start argument fields in the pthread structure for timer use, and the need to longjmp out of a signal handler.
2019-02-15defer free of thread-local dlerror buffers from inconsistent contextRich Felker1-2/+20
__dl_thread_cleanup is called from the context of an exiting thread that is not in a consistent state valid for calling application code. since commit c9f415d7ea2dace5bf77f6518b6afc36bb7a5732, it's possible (and supported usage) for the allocator to have been replaced by the application, so __dl_thread_cleanup can no longer call free. instead, reuse the message buffer as a linked-list pointer, and queue it to be freed the next time any dynamic linker error message is generated.
2019-02-13fix behavior of gets when input line contains a null byteRich Felker1-3/+8
the way gets was implemented in terms of fgets, it used the location of the null termination to determine where to find and remove the newline, if any. an embedded null byte prevented this from working. this also fixes a one-byte buffer overflow, whereby when gets read an N-byte line (not counting newline), it would store two null terminators for a total of N+2 bytes. it's unlikely that anyone would care that a function whose use is pretty much inherently a buffer overflow writes too much, but it could break the only possible correct uses of this function, in conjunction with input of known format from a trusted/same-privilege-domain source, where the buffer length may have been selected to exactly match a line length contract. there seems to be no correct way to implement gets in terms of a single call to fgets or scanf, and using multiple calls would require explicit locking, so we might as well just write the logic out explicitly character-at-a-time. this isn't fast, but nobody cares if a catastrophically unsafe function that's so bad it was removed from the C language is fast.
2019-02-12redesign robust mutex states to eliminate data races on type fieldRich Felker4-12/+23
in order to implement ENOTRECOVERABLE, the implementation has traditionally used a bit of the mutex type field to indicate that it's recovered after EOWNERDEAD and will go into ENOTRECOVERABLE state if pthread_mutex_consistent is not called before unlocking. while it's only the thread that holds the lock that needs access to this information (except possibly for the sake of pthread_mutex_consistent choosing between EINVAL and EPERM for erroneous calls), the change to the type field is formally a data race with all other threads that perform any operation on the mutex. no individual bits race, and no write races are possible, so things are "okay" in some sense, but it's still not good. this patch moves the recovery/consistency state to the mutex owner/lock field which is rightfully mutable. bit 30, the same bit the kernel uses with a zero owner to indicate that the previous owner died holding the lock, is now used with a nonzero owner to indicate that the mutex is held but has not yet been marked consistent. note that the kernel ABI also reserves bit 29 not to appear in any tid, so the sentinel value we use for ENOTRECOVERABLE, 0x7fffffff, does not clash with any tid plus bit 30.
2019-02-07fail fdopendir for O_PATH file descriptorsRich Felker1-0/+4
fdopendir is specified to fail with EBADF if the file descriptor passed is not open for reading. while O_PATH is an extension and arguably exempt from this requirement, it's used, albeit incompletely, to implement O_SEARCH, and fdopendir should fail when passed an O_SEARCH file descriptor. the new check is performed after fstat so that we don't have to consider the possibility that the fd is invalid. an alternate solution would be attempting to pre-fill the buffer using getdents, which would fail with EBADF for us, but that seems more complex and error-prone and involves either code duplication or refactoring, so the simple fix with an additional inexpensive syscall is what I've made for now.
2019-02-07update line discipline constantsBobby Bingham1-0/+12
2019-02-07move arch-invariant definitions out of bits/ioctl.hBobby Bingham8-682/+98
2019-02-07locale: ensure dcngettext() preserves errnoA. Wilcox1-0/+3
Some packages call gettext to format a message to be sent to perror. If the currently set user locale points to a non-existent .mo file, open via __map_file in dcngettext will set errno to ENOENT. Maintainer's notes: Non-modification of errno is a documented part of the interface contract for the GNU version of this function and likely other versions. The issue being fixed here seems to be a regression from commit 1b52863e244ecee5b5935b6d36bb9e6efe84c035, which enabled setting of errno from __map_file.
2019-01-21release 1.1.21v1.1.21Rich Felker2-1/+53
2019-01-21fix call to __pthread_tsd_run_dtors with too many argumentsRich Felker1-1/+1
commit a6054e3c94aa0491d7366e4b05ae0d73f661bfe2 removed the argument, making it a constraint violation to pass one. caught by cparser/firm; other compilers seem to ignore it.
2019-01-19configure: accept ppc[64] as alias for powerpc[64] in gcc tuplesRich Felker1-2/+2
apparently some distros use this form, and it seems to be supported in the gcc build system.
2019-01-16fix unintended linking dependency of pthread_key_create on __synccallRich Felker1-0/+6
commit 84d061d5a31c9c773e29e1e2b1ffe8cb9557bc58 attempted to do this already, but omitted from pthread_key_create.c the weak definition of __pthread_key_delete_synccall, so that the definition provided by pthread_key_delete.c was always pulled in. based on patch by Markus Wichmann, but with a weak alias rather than weak reference for consistency/policy about dependence on tooling features.
2018-12-28halt getspnam[_r] search on error accessing TCB shadowRich Felker1-0/+2
fallback to /etc/shadow should happen only when the entry is not found in the TCB shadow. otherwise transient errors or permission errors can cause inconsistent results.
2018-12-28don't set errno or return an error when getspnam[_r] finds no entryRich Felker2-3/+9
this case is specified as success with a null result, rather than an error, and errno is not to be set on success.
2018-12-19make sem_wait and sem_timedwait interruptible by signalsRich Felker1-1/+1
this reverts commit c0ed5a201b2bdb6d1896064bec0020c9973db0a1, which was based on a mistaken reading of POSIX due to inconsistency between the description (which requires return upon interruption by a signal) and the errors list (which wrongly lists EINTR as "may fail"). since the previously-introduced behavior was a workaround for an old kernel bug to ensure safety of correct programs that were not hardened against the bug, an effort has been made to preserve it for programs which do not use interrupting signal handlers. the stage for this was set in commit a63c0104e496f7ba78b64be3cd299b41e8cd427f, which makes the futex __timedwait backend suppress EINTR if it's seen when no interrupting signal handlers have been installed. based loosely on a patch submitted by Orivej Desh, but with unnecessary additional changes removed.
2018-12-18don't fail pthread_sigmask/sigprocmask on invalid how when set is nullRich Felker1-1/+1
the resolution of Austin Group issue #1132 changes the requirement to fail so that it only applies when the set argument (new mask) is non-null. this change was made for consistency with the description, which specified "if set is a null pointer, the value of the argument how is not significant".
2018-12-18add __timedwait backend workaround for old kernels where futex EINTRsRich Felker3-0/+15
prior to linux 2.6.22, futex wait could fail with EINTR even for non-interrupting (SA_RESTART) signals. this was no problem provided the caller simply restarted the wait, but sem_[timed]wait is required by POSIX to return when interrupted by a signal. commit a113434cd68ce30642c4995b1caadcd084be6f09 introduced this behavior, and commit c0ed5a201b2bdb6d1896064bec0020c9973db0a1 reverted it based on a mistaken belief that it was not required. this belief stems from a bug in the specification: the description requires the function to return when interrupted, but the errors section marks EINTR as a "may fail" condition rather than a "shall fail" one. since there does seem to be significant value in the change made in commit c0ed5a201b2bdb6d1896064bec0020c9973db0a1, making it so that programs that call sem_wait without checking for EINTR don't silently make forward progress without obtaining the semaphore or treat it as a fatal error and abort, add a behind-the-scenes mechanism in the __timedwait backend to suppress EINTR in programs that have never installed interrupting signal handlers, and have sigaction track and report this state. this way the semaphore code is not cluttered by workarounds and can be updated (to be done in next commit) to reflect the high-level logic for conforming behavior. these changes are based loosely on a patch by Markus Wichmann, with the main changes being atomic update to flag object and moving the workaround from sem_timedwait to the __timedwait futex backend.
2018-12-11on failed aio submission, set aiocb error and return valueRich Felker1-2/+4
it's not clear whether this is required, but it seems arguable that it should happen. for example aio_suspend is supposed to return immediately if any of the operations has "completed", which includes ending with an error status asynchonously and might also be interpreted to include doing so synchronously.
2018-12-11don't create aio queue/map structures for invalid file descriptorsRich Felker1-4/+8
the map structures in particular are permanent once created, and thus a large number of aio function calls with invalid file descriptors could exhaust memory, whereas, assuming normal resource limits, only a very small number of entries ever need to be allocated. check validity of the fd before allocating anything new, so that allocation of large amounts of memory is only possible when resource limits have been increased and a large number of files are actually open. this change also improves error reporting for bad file descriptors to happen at the time the aio submission call is made, as opposed to asynchronously.
2018-12-11move aio queue allocation from io thread to submitting threadRich Felker1-16/+21
since commit c9f415d7ea2dace5bf77f6518b6afc36bb7a5732, it has been possible that the allocator is application-provided code, which cannot necessarily run safely on io thread stacks, and which should not be able to see the existence of io threads, since they are an implementation detail. instead of having the io thread request and possibly allocate its queue (and the map structures leading to it), make the submitting thread responsible for this, and pass the queue pointer into the io thread via its args structure. this eliminates the only early error case in io threads, making it no longer necessary to pass an error status back to the submitting thread via the args structure.
2018-12-09fix and future-proof against stack overflow in aio io threadsRich Felker1-1/+12
aio threads not using SIGEV_THREAD notification are created with small stacks and no guard page, which is possible since they only run the code for the requested io operation, not any application code. the motivation is not creating a lot of VMAs. however, the io thread needs to be able to receive a cancellation signal in case aio_cancel (implemented via pthread_cancel) is called. this requires sufficient stack space for a signal frame, which PTHREAD_STACK_MIN does not necessarily include. in principle MINSIGSTKSZ from signal.h should give us sufficient space for a signal frame, but the value is incorrect on some existing archs due to kernel addition of new vector register support without consideration for impact on ABI. some powerpc models exceed MINSIGSTKSZ by about 0.5k, and x86[_64] with AVX-512 can exceed it by up to about 1.5k. so use MINSIGSTKSZ+2048 to allow for the discrepancy plus some working space. unfortunately, it's possible that signal frame sizes could continue to grow, and some archs (aarch64) explicitly specify that they may. passing of a runtime value for MINSIGSTKSZ via AT_MINSIGSTKSZ in the aux vector was added to aarch64 linux, and presumably other archs will use this mechanism to report if they further increase the signal frame size. when AT_MINSIGSTKSZ is present, assume it's correct, so that we only need a small amount of working space in addition to it; in this case just add 512.
2018-12-09add namespace-safe version of getauxval for internal useRich Felker2-1/+13
2018-12-09add NT_VMCOREDD to elf.h from linux v4.18Szabolcs Nagy1-0/+1
used for device driver dump in /proc/vmcore new in linux commit 2724273e8fd00b512596a77ee063f49b25f36507
2018-12-09add AT_MINSIGSTKSZ to elf.h from linux v4.18Szabolcs Nagy1-0/+1
new in linux commit 94b07c1f8c39c6d839df35fa28ffd1785d385897 currently only supported on aarch64
2018-12-09add io_pgetevents and rseq syscall numbers from linux v4.18Szabolcs Nagy13-0/+23
io_pgetevents is new in linux commit 7a074e96dee62586c935c80cecd931431bfdd0be rseq is new in linux commit d7822b1e24f2df5df98c76f0e94a5416349ff759