Our implementation for Jails resembles much of how FreeBSD jails are
working - it's essentially only a matter of using a RefPtr in the
Process class to a Jail object. Then, when we iterate over all processes
in various cases, we could ensure if either the current process is in
jail and therefore should be restricted what is visible in terms of
PID isolation, and also to be able to expose metadata about Jails in
/sys/kernel/jails node (which does not reveal anything to a process
which is in jail).
A lifetime model for the Jail object is currently plain simple - there's
simpy no way to manually delete a Jail object once it was created. Such
feature should be carefully designed to allow safe destruction of a Jail
without the possibility of releasing a process which is in Jail from the
actual jail. Each process which is attached into a Jail cannot leave it
until the end of a Process (i.e. when finalizing a Process). All jails
are kept being referenced in the JailManagement. When a last attached
process is finalized, the Jail is automatically destroyed.
Now that all global nodes are located in the /sys/kernel directory, we
can safely drop the global nodes in /proc, which includes both /proc/net
and /proc/sys directories as well.
This in fact leaves the ProcFS to only have subdirectories for processes
and the "self" symbolic link to reflect the current process being run.
Instead of having three separate APIs (one for each timestamp),
there's now only Inode::update_timestamps() and it takes 3x optional
timestamps. The non-empty timestamps are updated while holding the inode
mutex, and the outside world no longer has to look at intermediate
timestamp states.
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.
Each of these strings would previously rely on StringView's char const*
constructor overload, which would call __builtin_strlen on the string.
Since we now have operator ""sv, we can replace these with much simpler
versions. This opens the door to being able to remove
StringView(char const*).
No functional changes.
This exposes the child processes for a process as a directory
of symlinks to the respective /proc entries for each child.
This makes for an easier and possibly more efficient way
to find and count a process's children. Previously the only
method was to parse the entire /proc/all JSON file.
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. :^)
ProcFSGlobalInode now calls `write_bytes()`, `truncate()` and
`set_mtime()` on its associated component. This allows us to write 0 or
1 to a ProcFSSystemBoolean component to toggle a boolean value.
This patch adds KBufferBuilder::try_create() and treats it like anything
else that can fail. And so, failure to allocate the initial internal
buffer of the builder will now propagate an ENOMEM to the caller. :^)
The default template argument is only used in one place, and it
looks like it was probably just an oversight. The rest of the Kernel
code all uses u8 as the type. So lets make that the default and remove
the unused template argument, as there doesn't seem to be a reason to
allow the size to be customizable.
...in a few more places, at least.
find(1) is about to start relying on the reported types more or less
reflecting reality. This is especially relevant for magic symlinks
in ProcFS.
Use a Mutex instead of a SpinLock to protect the per-FileDescription
generated data cache. This allows processes to go to sleep while
waiting their turn.
Also don't try to be clever by reusing existing cache buffers.
Just allocate KBuffers as needed (and make sure to surface failures.)
In case we are about to delete the PID directory, we clear the Process
pointer. If someone still holds a reference to the PID directory (by
opening it), we still need to delete the process, but we can't delete
the directory, so we will keep it alive, but any operation on it will
fail by propogating the error to userspace about that the Process was
deleted and therefore there's no meaning to trying to do operations on
the directory.
Fixes#8576.
Now we use WeakPtrs to break Ref-counting cycle. Also, we call the
prepare_for_deletion method to ensure deleted objects are ready for
deletion. This is necessary to ensure we don't keep dead processes,
which would become zombies.
In addition to that, add some debug prints to aid debug in the future.
Instead of using one file for the entire "backend" of the ProcFS data
and metadata, we could split that file into two files that represent
2 logical chunks of the ProcFS exposed objects:
1. Global and inter-process information. This includes all fixed data in
the root folder of the ProcFS, networking information and the bus
folder.
2. Per-process information. This includes all dynamic data about a
process that resides in the /proc/PID/ folder.
This change makes it more easier to read the code and to change it,
hence we do it although there's no technical benefit from it now :)
The new ProcFS design consists of two main parts:
1. The representative ProcFS class, which is derived from the FS class.
The ProcFS and its inodes are much more lean - merely 3 classes to
represent the common type of inodes - regular files, symbolic links and
directories. They're backed by a ProcFSExposedComponent object, which
is responsible for the functional operation behind the scenes.
2. The backend of the ProcFS - the ProcFSComponentsRegistrar class
and all derived classes from the ProcFSExposedComponent class. These
together form the entire backend and handle all the functions you can
expect from the ProcFS.
The ProcFSExposedComponent derived classes split to 3 types in the
manner of lifetime in the kernel:
1. Persistent objects - this category includes all basic objects, like
the root folder, /proc/bus folder, main blob files in the root folders,
etc. These objects are persistent and cannot die ever.
2. Semi-persistent objects - this category includes all PID folders,
and subdirectories to the PID folders. It also includes exposed objects
like the unveil JSON'ed blob. These object are persistent as long as the
the responsible process they represent is still alive.
3. Dynamic objects - this category includes files in the subdirectories
of a PID folder, like /proc/PID/fd/* or /proc/PID/stacks/*. Essentially,
these objects are always created dynamically and when no longer in need
after being used, they're deallocated.
Nevertheless, the new allocated backend objects and inodes try to use
the same InodeIndex if possible - this might change only when a thread
dies and a new thread is born with a new thread stack, or when a file
descriptor is closed and a new one within the same file descriptor
number is opened. This is needed to actually be able to do something
useful with these objects.
The new design assures that many ProcFS instances can be used at once,
with one backend for usage for all instances.
