void return types 'return no value'. This is obvious and therefore
unneccessary to mention.
We spare rewind(3)'s sentence because espie@ pointed out that it's a
warning - the function masks a potential error.
This commit also adds a sentence to X509_free clarifying that it's
NULL-safe. This bit was discussed with doug@.
ok martijn@, sentiment supported by schwarze@
The 'A' option elevated warnings to errors, and has been the default for some
time. Then warnings were effectively eliminated in favor of everything
being an error, but then the 'a' flag turned real errors into warnings!
Remove the 'a' option entirely. You shouldn't have used it anyway.
ok tb tdeval
breaking the hardlink between file system entries, confusing apropos(1).
Split malloc.conf(5) out of malloc(3) as suggested by deraadt@.
Feedback and OK jmc@, OK deraadt@ tedu@ jasper@.
The old man page had a lot of useful information, but it was all mixed
together which made it difficult to reference. The main theme in this
commit is that the sections are more focused:
* DESCRIPTION describes the overall behavior
* RETURN VALUES describes what it may return (including implementation
defined values)
* EXAMPLES shows why we recently started an audit on malloc and realloc
usage in the tree.
* Added CAVEATS which describes what is implementation defined, gotchas
and security implications of misusing these functions
* Added IDIOMS which describes how these functions should or
should not be used
The MALLOC_OPTIONS section was left unchanged. Function names were
added to DIAGNOSTICS and STANDARDS. The MALLOC_OPTIONS and DIAGNOSTICS
sections were pushed down in the page so more pertinent information is
higher up.
This has gone through several revisions thanks to input from deraadt@
and schwarze@. Ingo also helped with some of the mandoc formatting.
OK schwarze@ (as far as it is a good starting point and the code
snippets look ok)
unmapping of freed allocations without disabling chunk randomisation
like the "Freeguard" ('F') option does. Make security 'S' option
use 'U' and not 'F'.
Rationale: guarding with no chunk randomisation is great for debugging
use-after-free, but chunk randomisation offers better defence against
"heap feng shui" style attacks that depend on carefully constructing a
particular heap layout so we should leave this enabled when requesting
security options.
Move all runtime options into a structure that is made read-only
(via mprotect) after initialisation to protect against attacks that
overwrite options to turn off malloc protections (e.g. use-after-free)
Allocate the main bookkeeping data (struct dir_info) using mmap(),
thereby giving it an unpredictable address. Place a PROT_NONE guard
page on either side to further frustrate attacks on it.
Add a new 'L' option that maps struct dir_info PROT_NONE except when
in the allocator code itself. Makes attacks on it basically impossible.
feedback tedu deraadt otto canacar
ok otto