Instead of getting credentials from Process::current(), we now require
that they be provided as input to the various VFS functions.
This ensures that an atomic set of credentials is used throughout an
entire VFS operation.
By protecting all the RefPtr<Custody> objects that may be accessed from
multiple threads at the same time (with spinlocks), we remove the need
for using LockRefPtr<Custody> (which is basically a RefPtr with a
built-in spinlock.)
Until now, our kernel has reimplemented a number of AK classes to
provide automatic internal locking:
- RefPtr
- NonnullRefPtr
- WeakPtr
- Weakable
This patch renames the Kernel classes so that they can coexist with
the original AK classes:
- RefPtr => LockRefPtr
- NonnullRefPtr => NonnullLockRefPtr
- WeakPtr => LockWeakPtr
- Weakable => LockWeakable
The goal here is to eventually get rid of the Lock* classes in favor of
using external locking.
All users which relied on the default constructor use a None lock rank
for now. This will make it easier to in the future remove LockRank and
actually annotate the ranks by searching for None.
This function is an extended version of `chmod(2)` that lets one control
whether to dereference symlinks, and specify a file descriptor to a
directory that will be used as the base for relative paths.
This modifies sys$chown to allow specifying whether or not to follow
symlinks and in which directory.
This was then used to implement lchown and fchownat in LibC and LibCore.
This was a premature optimization from the early days of SerenityOS.
The eternal heap was a simple bump pointer allocator over a static
byte array. My original idea was to avoid heap fragmentation and improve
data locality, but both ideas were rooted in cargo culting, not data.
We would reserve 4 MiB at boot and only ended up using ~256 KiB, wasting
the rest.
This patch replaces all kmalloc_eternal() usage by regular kmalloc().
As pointed out by BertalanD on Discord, POSIX specifies that
_SC_SYMLOOP_MAX (implemented in the following commit) always needs to be
equal or more than _POSIX_SYMLOOP_MAX (8, defined in
LibC/bits/posix1_lim.h), hence I've increased it to that value to
comply with the standard.
The move to header is required for the following commit - to make this
constant accessible outside of the VFS class, namely in sysconf.
We now use AK::Error and AK::ErrorOr<T> in both kernel and userspace!
This was a slightly tedious refactoring that took a long time, so it's
not unlikely that some bugs crept in.
Nevertheless, it does pass basic functionality testing, and it's just
real nice to finally see the same pattern in all contexts. :^)
This commit moves the KResult and KResultOr objects to Kernel/API to
signify that they may now be freely used by userspace code at points
where a syscall-related error result is to be expected. It also exposes
KResult and KResultOr to the global namespace to make it nicer to use
for userspace code.
Prior to this change, both uid_t and gid_t were typedef'ed to `u32`.
This made it easy to use them interchangeably. Let's not allow that.
This patch adds UserID and GroupID using the AK::DistinctNumeric
mechanism we've already been employing for pid_t/ProcessID.
Previously, Custody::absolute_path() was called for every call to
validate_path_against_process_veil(). For processes that don't have a
veil, the path is not used by the function. This means that it is
unnecessarily generated. This introduces an overload to
validate_path_against_process_veil(), which takes a Custody const& and
only generates the absolute path if it there is actually a veil and it
is thus needed.
This patch results in a speed up of Assistant's file system cache
building by around 16 percent.
If m_unveiled_paths.is_empty(), the root node (which is m_unveiled_paths
itself) is the matching veil. This means we should not return nullptr in
this case, but just use the code path for the general case.
This fixes a bug where calling e.g. unveil("/", "r") would refuse you
access to anything, because find_matching_unveiled_path would wrongly
return nullptr.
Since find_matching_unveiled_path can no longer return nullptr, we can
now just return a reference instead.
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 *
I decided to modify MappedROM.h because all other entried in Forward.h
are also classes, and this is visually more pleasing.
Other than that, it just doesn't make any difference which way we resolve
the conflicts.
MemoryManager cannot use the Singleton class because
MemoryManager::initialize is called before the global constructors
are run. That caused the Singleton to be re-initialized, causing
it to create another MemoryManager instance.
Fixes#3226
Unlike DirectoryEntry (which is used when constructing directories),
DirectoryEntryView does not manage storage for file names. Names are
just StringViews.
This is much more suited to the directory traversal API and makes
it easier to implement this in file system classes since they no
longer need to create temporary name copies while traversing.
VFS no longer deals with inodes in public API, only with custodies and file
descriptions. Talk directly to the file system if you need to operate on a
inode. In most cases you actually want to go though VFS, to get proper
permission check and other niceties. For this to work, you have to provide a
custody, which describes *how* you have opened the inode, not just what the
inode is.
