Note, this is not really a security risk, because the buffer in question
is a static variable in the data segment and not on the stack, and hence
cannot subert the flow of execution in any way. About the worst case was
that if you pinged a long hostname, ping could coredump.
Pointed out on: bugtraq (listserv@netspace.org)
- buffer expansions were not working right due to a return code botch.
- signed types instead of size_t's meant somebody else went and put
casts in, I've changed the types to what they should have been.
readable, as well as fix up some of the warts along the way. Among the
things fixed is the infamous "cd foo && make depend all install" bogon,
which is particularly important for users of the -DNOCLEAN option.
Also, a few typo and DESTDIR fixes and a -DNOGAMES hack from Gary Jennejohn.
is little or no reason to create a swap pager for small mmap's. The
vm_map_insert code will automatically create a swap pager if the object
becomes too large. This fix, per a request from phk.
and then never accept for sending packet from upper layer anymore
(i.e. ping -f )
Reviewed by: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Submitted by: amurai@spec.co.jp
performance issues.
1) The pmap module has had too many inlines, and so the
object file is simply bigger than it needs to be.
Some common code is also merged into subroutines.
2) Removal of some *evil* PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE macro calls.
Unfortunately, a few have needed to be added also.
The removal caused the need for more vm_page_lookups.
I added lookup hints to minimize the need for the
page table lookup operations.
3) Removal of some bogus performance improvements, that
mostly made the code more complex (tracking individual
page table page updates unnecessarily). Those improvements
actually hurt 386 processors perf (not that people who
worry about perf use 386 processors anymore :-)).
4) Changed pv queue manipulations/structures to be TAILQ's.
5) The pv queue code has had some performance problems since
day one. Some significant scalability issues are resolved
by threading the pv entries from the pmap AND the physical
address instead of just the physical address. This makes
certain pmap operations run much faster. This does
not affect most micro-benchmarks, but should help loaded system
performance *significantly*. DG helped and came up with most
of the solution for this one.
6) Most if not all pmap bit operations follow the pattern:
pmap_test_bit();
pmap_clear_bit();
That made for twice the necessary pv list traversal. The
pmap interface now supports only pmap_tc_bit type operations:
pmap_[test/clear]_modified, pmap_[test/clear]_referenced.
Additionally, the modified routine now takes a vm_page_t arg
instead of a phys address. This eliminates a PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE
operation.
7) Several rewrites of routines that contain redundant code to
use common routines, so that there is a greater likelihood of
keeping the cache footprint smaller.
blocked in a write() while waiting for the output to drain, sleep only
for tp->t_timeout, not forever. This only seems to happen when there is
either a modem lockup holding the hardware flow control down, or due to
some problem in the driver with processes attempting to write after the
modem has hung up (eg: elm, tf).
aliases of the "official" names as well, because now that getportbyname()
does a yp match, it no longer found the entries under the alias.
This broke rsh(1), because it looks up "shell/tcp" while the official
name in /etc/services is "cmd/tcp".
