X-Git-Url: http://nsz.repo.hu/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=WHATSNEW;h=ecf0cebab4e67a9b2e3fc1313cf5dc53f3d2dd69;hb=8d81ba8c0bc6fe31136cb15c9c82ef4c24965040;hp=dad17d6eda36e722ca4ec82a6bdbe09496e9b511;hpb=4fb273bd4002b37d7e149e077974bc22e2bc4e26;p=musl diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index dad17d6e..ecf0ceba 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -1984,3 +1984,219 @@ arch-specfic bugs fixed: - on mips, return from start function passed to clone crashed (runaway exec) - printf %a precision specifier malfunctioned except on ld80 archs - async thread cancellation crashed on powerpc64 and sh-fdpic + + +1.1.21 release notes + +new features: +- setting default thread stack size via PT_GNU_STACK program header +- arm vfork implementation +- arm tlsdesc/gnu2 tls dialect support +- name_to_handle_at and name_to_handle_at syscall wrappers +- header-level support for new linux features through 4.18 + +optimizations: +- glob rewrite with much better performance and stack usage properties +- single-threaded and already-locked fast paths for getc/putc variants +- single-instruction fma implementations for arm, s390x, powerpc, & x86_64 +- single-instruction fabs and sqrt implementations for powerpc +- size and performance from making all internal-only functions/data hidden +- made &errno and pthread_self results cachable again (attribute((const))) +- significant speedup in strtod with short inputs +- new tsearch AVL tree implementation, smaller and faster +- special-cased nop calls to wmemmove +- fixed erroneously suboptimal skip conditions in strstr and memmem + +hardening: +- default thread stack guard size increased from 4k to 8k + +compatibility: +- default thread stack size increased from 80k to 128k +- building for arm as thumb2 with clang internal assembler now works +- aio threads could overflow stack on kernels that break MINSIGSTKSZ ABI +- aio threads no longer call malloc (problematic with malloc replacement) +- pthread_sigmask/sigprocmask now ignore an invalid how when not changing mask + +bugs fixed: +- soft deadlock regression in stdio FILE locks with >2 threads contending +- deadlock and buffered data loss race in fclose +- race condition leading to possible crash in dcngettext plural forms +- glob failed to see past searchable-but-unreadable path components +- getdelim wrongly realloc'd buffer that was already exactly right size +- getdelim failed to set stream orientation on early error +- ttyname[_r] reported wrong error when given bad fd +- pthread_key_delete left old tsd values exposed if slot was reused +- freeaddrinfo failed to support freeing sublists +- access to optopt was broken by copy relocations +- memccpy returned wrong result if first byte past buffer end matched +- wordexp read past end of input string ending in backslash +- sem_wait and sem_timedwait were wrongly not interruptible by signals +- getspnam[_r] wrongly treated not-found as an error + +arch-specfic bugs fixed: +- soft deadlocks (missing futex wake) on powerpc locking +- dlsym returned wrong address for thread-local symbols on ppc/mips/m68k + + +1.1.22 release notes + +new features: +- priority-inheritance mutexes +- membarrier syscall, pre-registration to use it, fallback emulation +- header-level support for new linux features in 4.19, 4.20, 5.0 + +major internal changes: +- complete, async-safe view of all existent threads as global list +- robust __synccall based on new thread list +- new dynamic TLS is installed synchronously at dlopen +- TLSDESC resolver functions no longer make bad ABI assumptions to call C +- resolved shared library dependencies are now recorded + +compatibility & conformance: +- dependency-order shared library constructor execution +- sigaltstack no longer rejects SS_AUTODISARM, future flags +- FILE is now a complete (dummy) type in pre-C11 feature profiles +- setvbuf reports failure on invalid arguments +- TSVTX is exposed unconditionally in tar.h +- multithreaded set*id() no longer depends on /proc +- key slot reuse after pthread_key_delete no longer depends on /proc + +bugs fixed: +- failures in multithreaded set*id() with concurrent thread creation/exit +- interposed free was called from invalid/inconsistent contexts +- freeaddrinfo performed invalid free of some partial results lists +- dlsym dependency order search had false negatives and false positives +- dn_skipname gave wrong results for labels with 8-bit content +- dcngettext clobbered errno, often breaking printing of error messages +- sscanf read past end of buffer under certain conditions (1.1.21 regression) +- pthread_key_create spuriously failed under race condition (1.1.21 regression) +- fdopendir wrongly succeeded with O_PATH file descriptors +- gets behaved incorrectly in presence of null bytes +- namespace violations in c11 tsd and mutex function dependencies +- incorrect prototype for makecontext (unimplemented) + +arch-specfic bugs fixed: +- s390x had wrong values for POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED/_NOREUSE + + + +1.1.23 release notes + +new features: +- riscv64 port +- configure now allows customizing AR and RANLIB vars +- header-level support for new linux features in 5.1 + +major internal changes: +- removed extern __syscall; syscall header code is now fully self-contained + +performance: +- new math library implementation for log/exp/pow +- aarch64 dynamic tlsdesc function is streamlined + +compatibility & conformance: +- O_TTY_INIT is now defined +- sys/types.h no longer pollutes namespace with sys/sysmacros.h in any profile +- powerpc asm is now compatible with clang internal assembler + +changes for new POSIX interpretations: +- fgetwc now sets stream error indicator on encoding errors +- fmemopen no longer rejects 0 size + +bugs fixed: +- static TLS for shared libraries was allocated wrong on "Variant I" archs +- crash in dladdr reading through uninitialized pointer on non-match +- sigaltstack wrongly errored out on invalid ss_size when doing SS_DISABLE +- getdents function misbehaved with buffer length larger than INT_MAX +- set*id could deadlock after fork from multithreaded process + +arch-specfic bugs fixed: +- s390x SO_PEERSEC definition was wrong +- passing of 64-bit syscall arguments was broken on microblaze +- posix_fadvise was broken on mips due to missing 7-arg syscall support +- vrregset_t layout and member naming was wrong on powerpc64 + + + +1.1.24 release notes + +new features: +- GLOB_TILDE extension to glob +- non-stub catgets localization API, using netbsd binary catalog format +- posix_spawn file actions for [f]chdir (extension, pending future standard) +- secure_getenv function (extension) +- copy_file_range syscall wrapper (Linux extension) +- header-level support for new linux features in 5.2 + +performance: +- new fast path for lrint (generic C version) on 32-bit archs + +major internal changes: +- functions involving time are overhauled to be time64-ready in 32-bit archs +- x32 uses the new time64 code paths to replace nasty hacks in syscall glue + +compatibility & conformance: +- support for powerpc[64] unaligned relocation types +- powerpc[64] and sh sys/user.h no longer clash with kernel asm/ptrace.h +- select no longer modifies timeout on failure (or at all) +- mips64 stat results are no longer limited to 32-bit time range +- optreset (BSD extension) now has a public declaration +- support for clang inconsistencies in wchar_t type vs some 32-bit archs +- mips r6 syscall asm no longer has invalid lo/hi register clobbers +- vestigial asm declarations of __tls_get_new are removed (broke some tooling) +- riscv64 mcontext_t mismatch glibc's member naming is corrected + +bugs fixed: +- glob failed to match broken symlinks consistently +- invalid use of interposed calloc to allocate initial TLS +- various dlsym symbol resolution logic errors +- semctl with SEM_STAT_ANY didn't work +- pthread_create with explicit scheduling was subject to priority inversion +- pthread_create failure path had data race for thread count +- timer_create with SIGEV_THREAD notification had data race getting timer id +- wide printf family failed to support l modifier for float formats + +arch-specific bugs fixed: +- x87 floating point stack imbalance in math asm (i386-only CVE-2019-14697) +- x32 clock_adjtime, getrusage, wait3, wait4 produced junk (struct mismatches) +- lseek broken on x32 and mipsn32 with large file offsets +- riscv64 atomics weren't compiler barriers +- riscv64 atomics had broken asm constraints (missing earlyclobber flag) +- arm clone() was broken when compiled as thumb if start function returned +- mipsr6 setjmp/longjmp did not preserve fpu register state correctly + + + +1.2.0 release notes + +new features: +- time_t is now 64-bit on all archs (not just 64-bit archs) +- character type & case mapping data updated to Unicode 12.1.0 +- header-level support for new linux features in 5.3 and 5.4 + +performance: +- new O(1) wchar_t case mapping implementation +- i386 now uses C math code for exp, faster than old asm +- mips math asm + +compatibility & conformance: +- endian.h now aims to conform to future POSIX definition +- support older compilers that don't accept powerpc math asm constraints +- fdpic code in ldso was incompatible with valid optimizations in gcc 9+ +- RLIMIT_RTTIME was missing from sys/resource.h + +bugs fixed: +- wcwidth wrongly returned 0 for most of planes 4 and up +- missing case mapping between U+03F3 and U+037F +- wrong cacosh results for arguments with negative imaginary part +- wrong catanf/catanl results for various classes of arguments +- wrong return value for ungetc with argument outside [0,UCHAR_MAX] +- posix_openpt with no ptys available produced wrong errno + +arch-specific bugs fixed: +- sigcontext/regset definition mistakes & omissions on m68k, powerpc64 +- fesetenv(FE_DFL_ENV) crashed on riscv64 +- sh2 dynamic linker was broken since 1.1.21 (crash in stage 2b) +- arm dynamic linker chose wrong tls/atomic variants since 1.1.21 +- some math library functions returned excess precision on i386 +- unconfirmed regression in fchmodat AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW on mips*