This patch eliminates the thread ID portion of the 'Native_capability'
type. The access to entrypoints is now exclusively handled by passing
socket descripts over Unix domain sockets and by inheriting the socket
descriptor of the parent entrypoint at process-creation time.
Each entrypoint creates a socket pair. The server-side socket is bound
to a unique name defined by the server. The client-side socket is then
connected to the same name. Whereas the server-side socket is meant to
be exclusively used by the server to wait for incoming requests, the
client-side socket can be delegated to other processes as payload of RPC
messages (via SCM rights). Anyone who receives a capability over RPC
receives the client-side socket of the entrypoint to which the
capability refers. Given this socket descriptor, the unique name (as
defined by the server) can be requested using 'getpeername'. Using this
name, it is possible to compare socket descriptors, which is important
to avoid duplicates from polluting the limited socket-descriptor name
space.
Wheras this patch introduces capability-based delegation of access
rights to entrypoints, it does not cover the protection of the integrity
of RPC objects. RPC objects are still referenced by a global ID passed
as normal message payload.
This patch adds prinicipal support for transmitting socket descriptors
as RPC payload. Socket descriptors are handled by the linux-specific
implementation of the capability marshalling and unmarshalling functions
in 'ipc.h'. The 'Message' type in 'src/platform/linux_socket.h' has been
extended to carry multiple descriptors in a single message.
Unfortuately, we hit a problem (and potential show stopper) here:
lx_sendmsg failed with -109 in lx_call()
The error code corresponds to ETOOMANYREFS. There is only one place in
the Linux kernel where this error code is used (net/unix/af_unix.c).
The code for 'unix_attach_fds()' suggests that there is a limit with
regard to the maximum number of references for a given Unix domain
socket. When the error occurs, core and init are running. The socket
of core's server entrypoint is present in the '/proc/pid/fd' of those
processes 8 times. The error occurs when core tries to perform an
RPC to the entrypoint to perform 'Ram_session::transfer_quota()'
(base/include/base/child.h at line 248).
