Instead, use the FixedCharBuffer class to ensure we always use a static
buffer storage for these names. This ensures that if a Process or a
Thread were created, there's a guarantee that setting a new name will
never fail, as only copying of strings should be done to that static
storage.
The limits which are set are 32 characters for processes' names and 64
characters for thread names - this is because threads' names could be
more verbose than processes' names.
Once we move to a more proper shutdown procedure, processes other than
the finalizer task must be able to perform cleanup and finalization
duties, not only because the finalizer task itself needs to be cleaned
up by someone. This global variable, mirroring the early boot flags,
allows a future shutdown process to perform cleanup on its own.
Note that while this *could* be considered a weakening in security, the
attack surface is minimal and the results are not dramatic. To exploit
this, an attacker would have to gain a Kernel write primitive to this
global variable (bypassing KASLR among other things) and then gain some
way of calling the relevant functions, all of this only to destroy some
other running process. The same effect can be achieved with LPE which
can often be gained with significantly simpler userspace exploits (e.g.
of setuid binaries).
This has KString, KBuffer, DoubleBuffer, KBufferBuilder, IOWindow,
UserOrKernelBuffer and ScopedCritical classes being moved to the
Kernel/Library subdirectory.
Also, move the panic and assertions handling code to that directory.
Remove the hardcoded "AHCI Scattered DMA" for region name as it is a
part of a common API. Add region_name parameter to the try_create API
so that this API can be used by other drivers with the correct Memory
region name.
The constructor code of ScatterGatherList had code that can return
error. Move it to try_create for better error propagation.
This removes one TODO() and one
release_value_but_fixme_should_propagate_errors().
This removes the TODO from the try_create API to return ErrorOr. This
is also a preparation patch to move the init code in the constructor
that can fail to this try_create function.
"The official project language is American English […]."
5d2e915623/CONTRIBUTING.md?plain=1#L30
Here's a short statistic of the occurrences of the word "behavio(u)r":
$ git grep -IPioh 'behaviou?r' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
2 BEHAVIOR
24 Behaviour
32 behaviour
407 Behavior
992 behavior
Therefore, it is clear that "behaviour" (56 occurrences) should be
regarded a typo, and "behavior" (1401 occurrences) should be preferred.
Note that The occurrences in LibJS are intentionally NOT changed,
because there are taken verbatim from the specification. Hence:
$ git grep -IPioh 'behaviou?r' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
2 BEHAVIOR
10 behaviour
24 Behaviour
407 Behavior
1014 behavior
This was discovered by me during a work on USB keyboard patches, so it
triggered this bug.
The printing format for the VirtualAddress part is incorrect, leading to
another crash when handling page fault after accessing UNMAP_AFTER_INIT
code section.
Some hardware/software configurations crash KVM as soon as we try to
start Serenity. The exact cause is currently unknown, so just fully
revert it for now.
This reverts commit 897c4e5145.
The new baked image is a Prekernel and a Kernel baked together now, so
essentially we no longer need to pass the Prekernel as -kernel and the
actual kernel image as -initrd to QEMU, leaving the option to pass an
actual initrd or initramfs module later on with multiboot.
These were easy to pick-up as these pointers are assigned during the
construction point and are never changed afterwards.
This small change to these pointers will ensure that our code will not
accidentally assign these pointers with a new object which is always a
kind of bug we will want to prevent.
Previously we had a race condition in the page fault handling: We were
relying on the affected Region staying alive while handling the page
fault, but this was not actually guaranteed, as an munmap from another
thread could result in the region being removed concurrently.
This commit closes that hole by extending the lifetime of the region
affected by the page fault until the handling of the page fault is
complete. This is achieved by maintaing a psuedo-reference count on the
region which counts the number of in-progress page faults being handled
on this region, and extending the lifetime of the region while this
counter is non zero.
Since both the increment of the counter by the page fault handler and
the spin loop waiting for it to reach 0 during Region destruction are
serialized using the appropriate AddressSpace spinlock, eventual
progress is guaranteed: As soon as the region is removed from the tree
no more page faults on the region can start.
And similarly correctness is ensured: The counter is incremented under
the same lock, so any page faults that are being handled will have
already incremented the counter before the region is deallocated.
This replaces the previous owning address space pointer. This commit
should not change any of the existing functionality, but it lays down
the groundwork needed to let us properly access the region table under
the address space spinlock during page fault handling.
This class had slightly confusing semantics and the added weirdness
doesn't seem worth it just so we can say "." instead of "->" when
iterating over a vector of NNRPs.
This patch replaces NonnullRefPtrVector<T> with Vector<NNRP<T>>.
The handling of page tables is very architecture specific, so belongs
in the Arch directory. Some parts were already architecture-specific,
however this commit moves the rest of the PageDirectory class into the
Arch directory.
While we're here the aarch64/PageDirectory.{h,cpp} files are updated to
be aarch64 specific, by renaming some members and removing x86_64
specific code.
This was previously hardcoded this to be the physical memory range,
since we identity mapped the memory, however we now run the kernel at
a high virtual memory address.
Also changes PageDirectory.h to store up-to 512 pages, as the code now
needs access to more than 4 pages.
Reduce inclusion of limits.h as much as possible at the same time.
This does mean that kmalloc.h is now including Kernel/API/POSIX/limits.h
instead of LibC/limits.h, but the scope could be limited a lot more.
Basically every file in the kernel includes kmalloc.h, and needs the
limits.h include for PAGE_SIZE.
These instances were detected by searching for files that include
AK/Memory.h, but don't match the regex:
\\b(fast_u32_copy|fast_u32_fill|secure_zero|timing_safe_compare)\\b
This regex is pessimistic, so there might be more files that don't
actually use any memory function.
In theory, one might use LibCPP to detect things like this
automatically, but let's do this one step after another.
This step would ideally not have been necessary (increases amount of
refactoring and templates necessary, which in turn increases build
times), but it gives us a couple of nice properties:
- SpinlockProtected inside Singleton (a very common combination) can now
obtain any lock rank just via the template parameter. It was not
previously possible to do this with SingletonInstanceCreator magic.
- SpinlockProtected's lock rank is now mandatory; this is the majority
of cases and allows us to see where we're still missing proper ranks.
- The type already informs us what lock rank a lock has, which aids code
readability and (possibly, if gdb cooperates) lock mismatch debugging.
- The rank of a lock can no longer be dynamic, which is not something we
wanted in the first place (or made use of). Locks randomly changing
their rank sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
- In some places, we might be able to statically check that locks are
taken in the right order (with the right lock rank checking
implementation) as rank information is fully statically known.
This refactoring even more exposes the fact that Mutex has no lock rank
capabilites, which is not fixed here.
We add this basic functionality to the Kernel so Userspace can request a
particular virtual memory mapping to be immutable. This will be useful
later on in the DynamicLoader code.
The annotation of a particular Kernel Region as immutable implies that
the following restrictions apply, so these features are prohibited:
- Changing the region's protection bits
- Unmapping the region
- Annotating the region with other virtual memory flags
- Applying further memory advises on the region
- Changing the region name
- Re-mapping the region
We were previously using a 32-bit unsigned integer for this, which
caused us to start truncating region sizes when multiplied with
`PAGE_SIZE` on hardware with a lot of memory.
