This patch brings Kernel::RangeAllocator to UserspaceEmulator in a
slightly simplified form.
It supports the basic three allocation types needed by virt$mmap():
allocate_anywhere, allocate_specific, and allocate_randomized.
Porting virt$mmap() and virt$munmap() to use the allocator makes
UE work correctly once again. :^)
This achieves two things:
- Programs can now intentionally perform arbitrary syscalls by calling
syscall(). This allows us to work on things like syscall fuzzing.
- It restricts the ability of userspace to make syscalls to a single
4KB page of code. In order to call the kernel directly, an attacker
must now locate this page and call through it.
Personally, I prefer the naming convention DEBUG_FOO over FOO_DEBUG, but
the majority of the debug macros are already named in the latter naming
convention, so I just enforce consistency here.
This was done with the following script:
find . \( -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.h' -o -name '*.in' \) -not -path './Toolchain/*' -not -path './Build/*' -exec sed -i -E 's/DEBUG_PATH/PATH_DEBUG/' {} \;
This was done with the help of several scripts, I dump them here to
easily find them later:
awk '/#ifdef/ { print "#cmakedefine01 "$2 }' AK/Debug.h.in
for debug_macro in $(awk '/#ifdef/ { print $2 }' AK/Debug.h.in)
do
find . \( -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.h' -o -name '*.in' \) -not -path './Toolchain/*' -not -path './Build/*' -exec sed -i -E 's/#ifdef '$debug_macro'/#if '$debug_macro'/' {} \;
done
# Remember to remove WRAPPER_GERNERATOR_DEBUG from the list.
awk '/#cmake/ { print "set("$2" ON)" }' AK/Debug.h.in
All users of this mechanism have been switched to anonymous files and
passing file descriptors with sendfd()/recvfd().
Shbufs got us where we are today, but it's time we say good-bye to them
and welcome a much more idiomatic replacement. :^)
This 'data loss' was introduced in 809a8ee693, because
I hoped we could eventually outlaw overlong paths entirely. This sparked some discussion:
https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/discussions/4357
Among other things, we agree that yeah, the Kernel can and should be able to return
paths of arbitrary length. This means that the 'arbitrary' maximum of PATH_MAX in
UserspaceEmulator should be considered to be unnecessary data loss, and as such, needs to
be fixed.
This API was a mostly gratuitous deviation from POSIX that gave up some
portability in exchange for avoiding the occasional strlen().
I don't think that was actually achieving anything valuable, so let's
just chill out and have the same open() API as everyone else. :^)