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No longer mlock() ntpd pages by default in memory thus allowing its

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pages to page as necessary.

To restore historic BSD behaviour add the following to ntp.conf:
	rlimit memlock 32

Discussed on:	freebsd-current@ between Sept 6-9, 2019
Reported by:	Users using ASLR with stack gap != 0
Reviewed by:	ian, kib, rgrimes (all previous versions)
MFC after:	2 weeks
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21581
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Cy Schubert 2019-09-13 20:20:05 +00:00
parent 6e7abad2fa
commit 854cab511e
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=352304
3 changed files with 15 additions and 1 deletions
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UPDATING
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@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 13.x IS SLOW:
disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
20190913:
ntpd no longer by default locks its pages in memory, allowing them
to be paged out by the kernel. Use rlimit memlock to restore
historic BSD behaviour. For example, add "rlimit memlock 32"
to ntp.conf to lock up to 32 MB of ntpd address space in memory.
20190823:
Several of ping6's options have been renamed for better consistency
with ping. If you use any of -ARWXaghmrtwx, you must update your

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usr.sbin/ntp/config.h
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@ -287,7 +287,7 @@
#define DEFAULT_HZ 100
/* Default number of megabytes for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK */
#define DFLT_RLIMIT_MEMLOCK 32
#define DFLT_RLIMIT_MEMLOCK -1
/* Default number of 4k pages for RLIMIT_STACK */
#define DFLT_RLIMIT_STACK 50

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usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd/ntp.conf
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@ -102,3 +102,11 @@ restrict ::1
# Use either leapfile in /etc/ntp or periodically updated leapfile in /var/db.
#leapfile "/etc/ntp/leap-seconds"
leapfile "/var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds.list"
# Specify the number of megabytes of memory that should be allocated and
# locked. -1 (default) means "do not lock the process into memory".
# 0 means "lock whatever memory the process wants into memory". Any other
# number means to lock up to that number of megabytes into memory.
# 0 may result in a segfault when ASLR with stack gap randomization
# is enabled.
#rlimit memlock 32