This commit addresses the following shortcomings of our current, simple
and elegant memset function:
- REP STOSB/STOSQ has considerable startup overhead, it's impractical to
use for smaller sizes.
- Up until very recently, AMD CPUs didn't have support for "Enhanced REP
MOVSB/STOSB", so it performed pretty poorly on them.
With this commit applied, I could measure a ~5% decrease in `test-js`'s
runtime when I used qemu's TCG backend. The implementation is based on
the following article from Microsoft:
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2021/01/11/building-faster-amd64-memset-routines
Two versions of the routine are implemented: one that uses the ERMS
extension mentioned above, and one that performs plain SSE stores. The
version appropriate for the CPU is selected at load time using an IFUNC.
These are aliases to `setjmp()` and `longjmp()` on our system,
as our implementations don't modify the signal mask.
This is required for the syzkaller executor process.
Calling sigprocmask() through the PLT requires setting the ebx register
to the address of the global offset table, otherwise chaos ensues. Also
the value of the ecx register was assumed to be preserved across that
function call despite the fact that it is caller-saved in the x86
calling convention.
The `-z,text` linker flag causes the linker to reject shared libraries
and PIE executables that have textrels. Our code mostly did not use
these except in one place in LibC, which is changed in this commit.
This makes GNU ld match LLD's behavior, which has this option enabled by
default.
TEXTRELs pose a security risk, as performing these relocations require
executable pages to be written to by the dynamic linker. This can
significantly weaken W^X hardening mitigations.
Note that after this change, TEXTRELs can still be used in ports, as the
dynamic loader code is not changed. There are also uses of it in the
kernel, removing which are outside the scope of this PR. To allow those,
`-z,notext` is added.
We have had these for quite a while, but we didn't compile them, and
used GCC's version instead. Clang does not come with these, so we have
to provide our own implementation.
Our implementation follows what `musl` and `FreeBSD` do, so this should
work fine, even if documentation can hardly be found for them.
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
