From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
To: Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/19] elf: Do not duplicate the GLIBC_TUNABLES string
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 07:23:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7692cb6a-0832-403c-b704-b4f143b21e12@sourceware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca6b4ce7-46ab-45d7-829d-12845982f8b4@linaro.org>
On 2023-11-21 13:12, Adhemerval Zanella Netto wrote:
>>> -tunable_initialize (tunable_t *cur, const char *strval)
>>> +tunable_initialize (tunable_t *cur, const char *strval, size_t len)
>>> {
>>> - tunable_val_t val;
>>> + tunable_val_t val = { 0 };
>>> if (cur->type.type_code != TUNABLE_TYPE_STRING)
>>> val.numval = (tunable_num_t) _dl_strtoul (strval, NULL);
>>
>> There's an implicit assumption that strval is NULL terminated for numeric values. Is that safe? Maybe all you need to do here is copy strval into a static buffer of size 21 (basically size of the string representing -1ULL) and pass that to _dl_strtoul.
>
> Afaiu the environment variable will always be NULL terminated (although some
> might overlap). This is due how the kernel will layout the argv/envp on
> process creation at sys_execve:
Sure, but the strval here should not be the entire envvar, just the
value portion of it. Granted that _dl_strtoul will bail out on the
first non-numeric character, so maybe it's not
>>> - if (disable)
>>> + if (n.disable)
>>> {
>>> CHECK_GLIBC_IFUNC_CPU_OFF (n, cpu_features, POPCNT, 6);
>>> CHECK_GLIBC_IFUNC_CPU_OFF (n, cpu_features, SSE4_1, 6);
>>> CHECK_GLIBC_IFUNC_CPU_OFF (n, cpu_features, SSE4_2, 6);
>>> - if (memcmp (n, "XSAVEC", 6) == 0)
>>> + if (memcmp (n.str, "XSAVEC", 6) == 0)
>>
>> Why does this use the bare memcmp and not the tunables_strcmp?
>
> If I recall correctly, I did tried it and it resulted in worse codegen. The
> tunable_str_comma_strcmp also checks the size, which on the x86 code is not
> required and for some reason compiler can not eliminate.
Why isn't it required? Couldn't n.str be smaller than 6 chars?
Thanks,
Sid
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-22 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-06 20:25 [PATCH v3 00/19] Improve loader environment variable handling Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 01/19] elf: Remove /etc/suid-debug support Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 02/19] elf: Add GLIBC_TUNABLES to unsecvars Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 03/19] elf: Ignore GLIBC_TUNABLES for setuid/setgid binaries Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 04/19] elf: Add all malloc tunable to unsecvars Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 05/19] elf: Do not process invalid tunable format Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 06/19] elf: Do not parse ill-formatted strings Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-20 21:48 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 07/19] elf: Fix _dl_debug_vdprintf to work before self-relocation Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 08/19] elf: Emit warning if tunable is ill-formatted Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-20 21:50 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 09/19] x86: Use dl-symbol-redir-ifunc.h on cpu-tunables Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 10/19] s390: " Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 11/19] elf: Do not duplicate the GLIBC_TUNABLES string Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-20 22:44 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-11-21 18:12 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-11-22 11:39 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-11-22 12:23 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar [this message]
2023-11-22 13:03 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-11-22 13:24 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-11-22 14:13 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 12/19] elf: Ignore LD_PROFILE for setuid binaries Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-20 22:47 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 13/19] elf: Remove LD_PROFILE for static binaries Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-20 22:55 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 14/19] elf: Ignore loader debug env vars for setuid Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-20 22:57 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-11-21 18:24 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 15/19] elf: Remove any_debug from dl_main_state Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-20 22:58 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 16/19] elf: Ignore LD_LIBRARY_PATH and debug env var for setuid for static Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-20 22:59 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 17/19] elf: Add comments on how LD_AUDIT and LD_PRELOAD handle __libc_enable_secure Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 18/19] elf: Ignore LD_BIND_NOW and LD_BIND_NOT for setuid binaries Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-20 23:02 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-11-06 20:25 ` [PATCH v3 19/19] elf: Refactor process_envvars Adhemerval Zanella
2023-11-20 23:09 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-11-21 19:00 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-11-20 23:12 ` [PATCH v3 00/19] Improve loader environment variable handling Siddhesh Poyarekar
2023-11-21 19:37 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
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