The updating entry can be used for release notes. I'll merge this to
stable/12 and stable/13 to make sure it gets into thier release notes.
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Netflix
This fixes a couple of typos in older entries, and clarifies the
language of a newer one. It also removes a joke that trips up
foreign readers due its use of faux archaic English.
Reviewed by: imp@
Old certctl commands still work for compatability, but are deprecated.
Approved by: secteam (gordon)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30807
Commits 17accc08ae15 and de102f870501 add new files to LinuxKPI
which break drm-kmod. In addition various other additions where
comitted. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1400015 to be able to detect this.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
While here, fix all links to older en_US.ISO8859-1 documentation
in the src/ tree.
PR: 255026
Reported by: Michael Büker <freebsd@michael-bueker.de>
Reviewed by: dbaio
Approved by: blackend (mentor), re (gjb)
MFC after: 10 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30265
Update the UPDATING file for PC Card device removal. Also note that
1300134 is used for the FreeBSD_version since wulf@ just bumped that
in the last few hours.
This is the final half of splitting r358153 in two, in order to avoid a build
system bugs and being able to merge an earlier change to previous releases.
Add a note to UPDATING to avoid people building from very old systems from
having issues with mergemaster
MFC after: 3 days (only 12-stable)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23621
GDB 6.1.1 was released in June 2004 and is long obsolete. It does not
support all of the architectures that FreeBSD does, and imposes
limitations on the FreeBSD kernel build, such as the continued use of
DWARF2 debugging information.
It was kept (in /usr/libexec/) only for use by crashinfo(8), which
extracts some basic information from a kernel core dump after a crash.
Crashinfo already prefers gdb from port/package if installed.
Future work may add kernel debug support to LLDB or find another path
for crashinfo's needs, but in any case we do not want to ship the
excessively outdated GDB in FreeBSD 13.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27610
There is now a single ping binary, which chooses to use ICMP or ICMPv4
based on the -4 and -6 options, and the format of the address.
Submitted by: Ján Sučan <sucanjan@gmail.com>
Sponsored by: Google LLC (Google Summer of Code 2019)
MFC after: Never
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21377
The goal of the fib support is to provide multiple independent
routing tables, isolated from each other.
net.add_addr_allfibs default tries to shift gears in the opposite
direction, unconditionally inserting all addresses to all of the fibs.
There are use cases when this is necessary, however this is not a
default expected behaviour, especially compared to other implementations.
Provide WARNING message for the setups with multiple fibs to notify
potential users of the feature.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26076
Add a note about always recompiling all modules on every new kernel
change / update. In addition, suggest using /usr/local/sys/modules
so this happens automatically.
freebsd-boot partition is not always the first one.
Following the instructions in UPDATING resulted in my overwriting
the efiboot0 partition on my laptop with ZFS boot blocks, which
had negative effects on the system's bootability.
Reviewed by: allanjude
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27002
Move all the data files for the calendar(1) program, except
calendar.freebsd to the calendar-data package. When a file
can't be found, and /usr/local/share/calendar doesn't exist
provide a helpful hint to install this package.
Reviewed by: se@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26926
Now that config(8) has supported include for 19 years, transition to
including the NOTES files. include support didn't exist at the time,
nor did the envvar stuff recently added. Now that it does, eliminate
the building of LINT files by just including everything you need.
Note: This may cause conflicts with updating in some cases.
find sys -name LINT\* -rm
is suggested across this commit to remove the generated LINT
files.
Reviewed by: kevans
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26540
For historical reasons, defining MALLOC_PRODUCTION in /etc/make.conf has
been used to turn off potentially expensive debug checks and statistics
gathering in the implementation of malloc(3).
It seems more consistent to turn this into a regular src.conf(5) option,
e.g. WITH_MALLOC_PRODUCTION / WITHOUT_MALLOC_PRODUCTION. This can then
be toggled similar to any other source build option, and turned on or
off by default for e.g. stable branches.
Reviewed by: imp, #manpages
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26337
It's rare for there to be two updating entries on the same day (once a
decade or so), but we have that here. Add the date to the second one
since devd and zfs are unrelated.
make copies instead.
There's too many times that we can't run the new binaries with old
libraries. Making the links when things are known to be 'safe' is a
nice optimization, but a copy of all the binaries is only 30MB, so
saving the copies at the cost of increased support when new symbols
are added and used as part of the bootstrap seems to be unwise.
There may be additional optimizations possible here, especially for
!FreeBSD hosts. However, that's beyond the scope of the problem I'm
trying to fix with make failing mid-way through an installworld across
change r363679. This optimization there caused us to run a new binary
with an old library once a new make was installed due to the symbolic
link. One could just copy make, but then other binaries fail as well,
so rather than play whack-a-mole, I opted to take us back to the old
way. Before r340157 or so we did copies (thogh of a lot fewer
artifacts), and we didn't have issues like this.
Reviewed by: arichards@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25967
Some folks seem to be hitting issues with build orchestration; presumably
some of our .WAIT-removal optimizations are going awry, and they're ending
up with applications linked against new libc being installed before the new
libc.
Letting installworld complete the first time should ensure that the new libc
is installed by the end of it, then the second installworld will ensure
consistency as everything should succeed.
Some of the consumers in-base may make it enticing enough to ensure that
COMPAT_FREEBSD12, which is notably a fairly light option at the moment, is
included in custom kernel configs.
Suggested by: netchild
Casualty: mail jail
The upstream DTS now include the thermal device node and the SID
calibration entry.
Update our driver to cope with this change and remove the DTB
overlays that aren't needed anymore.
MFC after: 2 months
X-MFC-With: r359934
autofs was introduced with FreeBSD 10.1 and is the supported method for
automounting filesystems. As of r296194 the amd man page claimed that it
is deprecated. Remove it from base now; the sysutils/am-utils port is
still available if necessary.
Discussed with: cy
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Now that we no longer have GCC 4.2.1 in the tree and can assume FreeBSD
is being built with a C++11 compiler available, we can use BSDL dtc
unconditionally and retire the GPL dtc.
GPL dtc now has FreeBSD CI support via Cirrus-CI to help ensure it
continues to build/work on FreeBSD and is available in the ports tree
if needed.
The copy of (copyfree licensed) libfdt that we actually use is in
sys/contrib/libfdt so the extra copy under contrib/dtc/libfdt can be
removed along with the rest of the GPL dtc.
Reviewed by: kevans, ian, imp, manu, theraven
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23192
LLVM's libunwind is used on all FreeBSD-supported CPU architectures and
is a required component.
Reviewed by: brooks (earlier)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23123
As described in Warner's email message[1] to the FreeBSD-arch mailing
list we have reached GCC 4.2.1's retirement date. At this time all
supported architectures either use in-tree Clang, or rely on external
toolchain (i.e., a contemporary GCC version from ports).
GCC 4.2.1 was released July 18, 2007 and was imported into FreeBSD later
that year, in r171825. GCC has served us well, but version 4.2.1 is
obsolete and not used by default on any architecture in FreeBSD. It
does not support modern C and does not support arm64 or RISC-V.
Thanks to everyone responsible for maintaining, updating, and testing
GCC in the FreeBSD base system over the years.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2020-January/019823.html
PR: 228919
Reviewed by: brooks, imp
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23124
Each entry in ObsoleteFiles.inc adds to the time `make delete-old` and
friends take to run. Perl was removed from the FreeBSD base system a
very long time ago (FreeBSD 5); source updates have not been supported
from that version for years.
Perl was a single component responsible for thousands of entries so
provides significant benefit with little effort/investigation required.
We could still use a more comprehensive cleanup to remove old entries.
Also add an UPDATING note (with wordsmithing by imp) indicating that
`make delete-old` is required along each step of a source upgrade from
an old, unsupported release.
Discussed with: imp
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Revert parts of r353274 replacing vnet_state with a shutdown flag.
Not having the state flag for the current SI_SUB_* makes it harder to debug
kernel or module panics related to VNET bringup or teardown.
Not having the state also does not allow us to check for other dependency
levels between components, e.g. for moving interfaces.
Expand the VNET structure with the new boolean flag indicating that we are
doing a shutdown of a given vnet and update the vnet magic cookie for the
change.
Update libkvm to compile with a bool in the kernel struct.
Bump __FreeBSD_version for (external) module builds to more easily detect
the change.
Reviewed by: hselasky
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23097
Support for NO_CTF, NO_DEBUG_FILES, NO_INSTALLLIB, NO_MAN, NO_PROFILE,
and NO_WARNS as deprecated in 2014 with a warning added for each one
found. Turn these into error in preperation for removal of compatability
support before FreeBSD 13.
This was previously committed in r354909 and reverted in r355011 due to
unforseen impacts on ports. I've since corrected all amd64 and i386
ports reported in prior runs as well as instance of these variables I
found via grep.
TARGET=arm now defaults to TARGET_ARCH=armv7
TARGET_ARCH=arm is no longer valid.
Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1300073
Tested with make universe. Any stale LINT-V5 config files remaining in the tree
will fail the universe build. However, LINT-V5 was removed in r355119.
This retirement has been planned since last summer. The armv5 port is fragile:
it works OK for some peeople, and fails badly for others. There's a number of
subtle bugs in busdma, pmap and other MD parts of thee system that present
themselves under load or in unusual circumstances (like fsck after a
crash). stable/8, branched 10 years ago, was the last reliable release. Since
the support burden is larger then the benefit, the consensus view is armv5
should be removed from the tree.
Discussed with: arm@ mailing list and arm developer community.
Simplify RANDOM_LOADABLE by removing the ability to unload a LOADABLE
random(4) implementation. This allows one-time random module selection
at boot, by loader(8). Swapping modules on the fly doesn't seem
especially useful.
This removes the need to hold a lock over the sleepable module calls
read_random and read_random_uio.
init/deinit have been pulled out of random_algorithm entirely. Algorithms
can run their own sysinits to initialize; deinit is removed entirely, as
algorithms can not be unloaded. Algorithms should initialize at
SI_SUB_RANDOM:SI_ORDER_SECOND. In LOADABLE systems, algorithms install
a pointer to their local random_algorithm context in p_random_alg_context at
that time.
Go ahead and const'ify random_algorithm objects; there is no need to mutate
them at runtime.
LOADABLE kernel NULL checks are removed from random_harvestq by ordering
random_harvestq initialization at SI_SUB_RANDOM:SI_ORDER_THIRD, after
algorithm init. Prior to random_harvestq init, hc_harvest_mask is zero and
no events are forwarded to algorithms; after random_harvestq init, the
relevant pointers will already have been installed.
Remove the bulk of random_infra shim wrappers and instead expose the bare
function pointers in sys/random.h. In LOADABLE systems, read_random(9) et
al are just thin shim macros around invoking the associated function
pointer. We do not provide a registration system but instead expect
LOADABLE modules to register themselves at SI_SUB_RANDOM:SI_ORDER_SECOND.
An example is provided in randomdev.c, as used in the random_fortuna.ko
module.
Approved by: csprng(markm)
Discussed with: gordon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22512
While the interaction between this and the ETCSYMLINK option of
security/ca_root_nss isn't necessarily fatal, one should be aware and
attempt to understand the ramifications of mixing the two.
ports-secteam will be contacted to discuss the default option for branches
where certs are being included in base.
o Remove All Rights Reserved from my notices
o imp@FreeBSD.org everywhere
o regularize punctiation, eliminate date ranges
o Make sure that it's clear that I don't claim All Rights reserved by listing
All Rights Reserved on same line as other copyright holders (but not
me). Other such holders are also listed last where it's clear.
Support for NO_CTF, NO_DEBUG_FILES, NO_INSTALLLIB, NO_MAN, NO_PROFILE,
and NO_WARNS as deprecated in 2014 with a warning added for each one
found. Turn these into error in preperation for removal of compatability
support before FreeBSD 13.
Reviewed by: imp
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22448
As of FreeBSD 10.1 the autofs(5) is available for automounting, and the
amd man page has indicated that the in-tree copy of amd is obsolete.
Disable it by default for now, with the expectation that it will be
removed before FreeBSD 13.0.
Reviewed by: kevans
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22460
net.link.tap.user_open has historically allowed non-root users to do devfs
cloning and open /dev/tap* nodes based on permissions. Loosen this up to
make it only allow users to do devfs cloning -- we no longer check it in
tunopen.
This allows tap devices to be created that can actually be opened by a user,
rather than swiftly restricting them to root because the magic sysctl has
not been set.
The sysctl has not yet been completely deprecated, because more thought is
needed for how to handle the devfs cloning case. There is not an easy
suitable replacement for the sysctl there, and more care needs to be placed
in determining whether that's OK or not.
PR: 200185
Four drivers (hpt27xx, hptmv, hptnr, hptrr, hpt27xx) include precompiled
binary objects; have users load them as modules if they are needed.
Additional work (i.e., integrating devmatch) required before MFC.
Reviewed by: markj
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21865
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
Now equivalent options have the same flags, and nonequivalent options have
different flags. This is a prelude to merging the two commands.
Submitted by: Ján Sučan <sucanjan@gmail.com>
MFC: Never
Sponsored by: Google LLC (Google Summer of Code 2019)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21345
The clang switchover happened long enough ago that we can
garbage-collect this note.
Reviewed by: emaste, imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20978
Previously fusefs would never recycle vnodes. After VOP_INACTIVE, they'd
linger around until unmount or the vnlru reclaimed them. This commit
essentially actives and inlines the old reclaim_revoked sysctl, and fixes
some issues dealing with the attribute cache and multiply linked files.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
libunwind and openmp to the upstream release_80 branch r363030
(effectively, 8.0.1 rc2). The 8.0.1 release should follow this within a
week or so.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Apply a linker script when linking i386 kernel modules to apply padding
to a set_pcpu or set_vnet section. The padding value is kind-of random
and is used to catch modules not compiled with the linker-script, so
possibly still having problems leading to kernel panics.
This is needed as the code generated on certain architectures for
non-simple-types, e.g., an array can generate an absolute relocation
on the edge (just outside) the section and thus will not be properly
relocated. Adding the padding to the end of the section will ensure
that even absolute relocations of complex types will be inside the
section, if they are the last object in there and hence relocation will
work properly and avoid panics such as observed with carp.ko or ipsec.ko.
There is a rather lengthy discussion of various options to apply in
the mentioned PRs and their depends/blocks, and the review.
There seems no best solution working across multiple toolchains and
multiple version of them, so I took the liberty of taking one,
as currently our users (and our CI system) are hitting this on
just i386 and we need some solution. I wish we would have a proper
fix rather than another "hack".
Also backout r340009 which manually, temporarily fixed CARP before 12.0-R
"by chance" after a lead-up of various other link-elf.c and related fixes.
PR: 230857,238012
With suggestions from: arichardson (originally last year)
Tested by: lwhsu
Event: Waterloo Hackathon 2019
Reported by: lwhsu, olivier
MFC after: 6 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17512
Use the .PATH mechanism instead so keep installing them from lib/libc/gen
While here revert 347961 and 347893 which are no longer needed
Discussed with: manu
Tested by: manu
ok manu@
We have a better, more comprehensive knob for this now:
kern.random.initial_seeding.bypass_before_seeding=1.
Requested by: delphij
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
This sysctl was added > 6.5 years ago and I don't know why. The description
seems at odds with the code. While it's supposed to "discard clean cached
data" during VOP_INACTIVE, it looks like it would discard any cached data,
clean or otherwise.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This sysctl was added > 6.5 years ago for no clear reason. Perhaps it was
intended to gate an unstable feature? But now there's no reason to globally
disable mmap. I'm not deleting the -ono_mmap mount option just yet, because
it might be useful as a workaround for bug 237588.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This was added > 6.5 years ago with no evident reason why. It probably had
something to do with the incomplete cached attribute implementation. But
cache attributes work now. I see no reason to retain this sysctl.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This sysctl was added > 6.5 years ago for no clear purpose. I'm guessing
that it may have had something to do with the incomplete attribute cache.
But the attribute cache works now. Since there's no clear motivation for
this sysctl, it's best to remove it.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
This looks like it may have been a workaround for a specific buggy FUSE
filesystem. However, there's no information about what that bug may have
been, and the workaround is > 6.5 years old, so I consider the sysctl to be
unmaintainable.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Remove the "sync_unmount" and "init_backgrounded" sysctls and the associated
options from mount_fusefs. Add no backwards-compatibility hidden options to
mount_fusefs because these options never had any effect, and are therefore
unlikely to be used.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Having IPSEC compiled into the kernel imposes a non-trivial
performance penalty on multi-threaded workloads due to IPSEC
refcounting. In my benchmarks of multi-threaded UDP
transmit (connected sockets), I've seen a roughly 20% performance
penalty when the IPSEC option is included in the kernel (16.8Mpps
vs 13.8Mpps with 32 senders on a 14 core / 28 HTT Xeon
2697v3)). This is largely due to key_addref() incrementing and
decrementing an atomic reference count on the default
policy. This cause all CPUs to stall on the same cacheline, as it
bounces between different CPUs.
Given that relatively few users use ipsec, and that it can be
loaded as a module, it seems reasonable to ask those users to
load the ipsec module so as to avoid imposing this penalty on the
GENERIC kernel. Its my hope that this will make FreeBSD look
better in "out of the box" benchmark comparisons with other
operating systems.
Many thanks to ae for fixing auto-loading of ipsec.ko when
ifconfig tries to configure ipsec, and to cy for volunteering
to ensure the the racoon ports will load the ipsec.ko module
Reviewed by: cem, cy, delphij, gnn, jhb, jpaetzel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20163
tun(4) and tap(4) share the same general management interface and have a lot
in common. Bugs exist in tap(4) that have been fixed in tun(4), and
vice-versa. Let's reduce the maintenance requirements by merging them
together and using flags to differentiate between the three interface types
(tun, tap, vmnet).
This fixes a couple of tap(4)/vmnet(4) issues right out of the gate:
- tap devices may no longer be destroyed while they're open [0]
- VIMAGE issues already addressed in tun by kp
[0] emaste had removed an easy-panic-button in r240938 due to devdrn
blocking. A naive glance over this leads me to believe that this isn't quite
complete -- destroy_devl will only block while executing d_* functions, but
doesn't block the device from being destroyed while a process has it open.
The latter is the intent of the condvar in tun, so this is "fixed" (for
certain definitions of the word -- it wasn't really broken in tap, it just
wasn't quite ideal).
ifconfig(8) also grew the ability to map an interface name to a kld, so
that `ifconfig {tun,tap}0` can continue to autoload the correct module, and
`ifconfig vmnet0 create` will now autoload the correct module. This is a
low overhead addition.
(MFC commentary)
This may get MFC'd if many bugs in tun(4)/tap(4) are discovered after this,
and how critical they are. Changes after this are likely easily MFC'd
without taking this merge, but the merge will be easier.
I have no plans to do this MFC as of now.
Reviewed by: bcr (manpages), tuexen (testing, syzkaller/packetdrill)
Input also from: melifaro
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20044
As discussed in that commit message, it is a dangerous default. But the
safe default causes enough pain on a variety of platforms that for now,
restore the prior default.
Some of this is self-induced pain we should/could do better about; for
example, programmatic CI systems and VM managers should introduce entropy
from the host for individual VM instances. This is considered a future work
item.
On modern x86 and Power9 systems, this may be wholly unnecessary after
D19928 lands (even in the non-ideal case where early /boot/entropy is
unavailable), because they have fast hardware random sources available early
in boot. But D19928 is not yet landed and we have a host of architectures
which do not provide fast random sources.
This change adds several tunables and diagnostic sysctls, documented
thoroughly in UPDATING and sys/dev/random/random_infra.c.
PR: 230875 (reopens)
Reported by: adrian, jhb, imp, and probably others
Reviewed by: delphij, imp (earlier version), markm (earlier version)
Discussed with: adrian
Approved by: secteam(delphij)
Relnotes: yeah
Security: related
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19944
This is a stopgap measure to unbreak installer/VM/embedded boot issues
introduced (or at least exposed by) in r346250.
Add the new tunable, "security.stack_protect.permit_nonrandom_cookies," in
order to continue boot with insecure non-random stack cookies if the random
device is unavailable.
For now, enable it by default. This is NOT safe. It will be disabled by
default in a future revision.
There is follow-on work planned to use fast random sources (e.g., RDRAND on
x86 and DARN on Power) to seed when the early entropy file cannot be
provided, for whatever reason. Please see D19928.
Some better hacks may be used to make the non-random __stack_chk_guard
slightly less predictable (from delphij@ and mjg@); those suggestions are
left for a future revision. I think it may also be plausible to move stack
guard initialization far later in the boot process; potentially it could be
moved all the way to just before userspace is started.
Reported by: many
Reviewed by: delphij, emaste, imp (all w/ caveat: this is a stopgap fix)
Security: yes
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19927
The imagined use is for early boot consumers of random to be able to make
decisions based on whether random is available yet or not. One such
consumer seems to be __stack_chk_init(), which runs immediately after random
is initialized. A follow-up patch will attempt to address that.
Reported by: many
Reviewed by: delphij (except man page)
Approved by: secteam(delphij)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19926
