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Besides removing the monolithic DevFSDeviceInode::determine_name()
method, being able to determine a device's name inside the /dev
hierarchy outside of DevFS has its uses.
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This method will be used later in DevFS, to set the appropriate
permissions for each device node.
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Since the CPU already does almost all necessary validation steps
for us, we don't really need to attempt to do this. Doing it
ourselves doesn't really work very reliably, because we'd have to
account for other processors modifying virtual memory, and we'd
have to account for e.g. pages not being able to be allocated
due to insufficient resources.
So change the copy_to/from_user (and associated helper functions)
to use the new safe_memcpy, which will return whether it succeeded
or not. The only manual validation step needed (which the CPU
can't perform for us) is making sure the pointers provided by user
mode aren't pointing to kernel mappings.
To make it easier to read/write from/to either kernel or user mode
data add the UserOrKernelBuffer helper class, which will internally
either use copy_from/to_user or directly memcpy, or pass the data
through directly using a temporary buffer on the stack.
Last but not least we need to keep syscall params trivial as we
need to copy them from/to user mode using copy_from/to_user.
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Instead of returning a ssize_t where negative values mean error,
we now return KResultOr<size_t> and use the error state to report
errors exclusively.
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As suggested by Joshua, this commit adds the 2-clause BSD license as a
comment block to the top of every source file.
For the first pass, I've just added myself for simplicity. I encourage
everyone to add themselves as copyright holders of any file they've
added or modified in some significant way. If I've added myself in
error somewhere, feel free to replace it with the appropriate copyright
holder instead.
Going forward, all new source files should include a license header.
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We now have these API's in <Kernel/Random.h>:
- get_fast_random_bytes(u8* buffer, size_t buffer_size)
- get_good_random_bytes(u8* buffer, size_t buffer_size)
- get_fast_random<T>()
- get_good_random<T>()
Internally they both use x86 RDRAND if available, otherwise they fall
back to the same LCG we had in RandomDevice all along.
The main purpose of this patch is to give kernel code a way to better
express its needs for random data.
Randomness is something that will require a lot more work, but this is
hopefully a step in the right direction.
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Asking a File if we could possibly read or write it will never mutate
the asking FileDescription&, so it should be const.
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These types can be picked up by including <AK/Types.h>:
* u8, u16, u32, u64 (unsigned)
* i8, i16, i32, i64 (signed)
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After reading a bunch of POSIX specs, I've learned that a file descriptor
is the number that refers to a file description, not the description itself.
So this patch renames FileDescriptor to FileDescription, and Process now has
FileDescription* file_description(int fd).
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Also run it across the whole tree to get everything using the One True Style.
We don't yet run this in an automated fashion as it's a little slow, but
there is a snippet to do so in makeall.sh.
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This will allow us to implement different behaviors depending on the role
of the descriptor a File is being accessed through.
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