Some Ubuntu installations (e.g., 20.04) create installation disks with
strange C/H/S MBR partitions like 3988/255/2. Normally, VirtualBox reads
the MBR to guess disk geometry information for the virtual BIOS.
Unfortuantely, the strange values from Ubuntu lead to a heavy
virtual-disk activity on boot. Therefore, this commit forces the use of
calculated values based on the assumption that large disks use LBA
addressing anyway.
Fixes#4978
Several nightly network-related tests fail currently on sel4/pc because the
new e1000 NIC driver requires more capabilities. The "drivers nic" package
was already adapted to the new requirement but some tests fail to provide
enough caps to the corresponding sub system. This commit tries to fix all
remaining tests.
Ref #4923
Since the wireless LAN driver is actually a 'Libc::Component' due to
its incorporation of the 'wpa_spplicant' application, we have to
intercept its construction because we have to initialize the Lx_kit
environment before any static ctors are executed. Most Linux initcalls
are implemented as ctors that will be otherwise implicitly executed
before the controll is given to us in 'Libc::Component::construct'.
Issue #4927.
This patch restricts 'Region_map::attach_executable' to create read-only
mappings, while offering the option to map the full rights using a new
'attach_rwx' method.
The 'attach_rwx' method is now used by the dynamic linker to explicitly
attach the linker area with full rwx rights. With the old page-fault
handling code, the execute flag was evaluated only for leaf dataspaces,
not for managed dataspaces while traversing region-map hierarchies.
With the new page-fault handling code, the execute bit is downgraded
to no-execute when passing a managed dataspace that is not attached
as executable.
Issue #4920
This commit changes the firmware handling from requesting each
firmware file as a ROM module that is checked against a list of
known images (including their size) to requesting each file via
the local VFS of the 'wifi_drv'. This allows for using the original
probing mechanism that tries to select a matching firmware version.
The 'repos/dde_linux/src/drivers/wifi/README' file contains more
detailed information on how to configure the driver.
Issue #4861.
The bulk of the driver code now lives in the 'dde_linux' repository,
which is available on all platforms, from where it can be referenced by
other repositories.
The 'wifi_drv' binary was delegated to a generic harness that includes
all configuration and management functionality shared by all wireless
device driver components, e.g., the wpa_supplicant. The code of the
device driver emulation environment is located in 'src/lib/wifi'. It
is referenced by the platform-specific driver library that resides in
the corresponding platform repository. The runtime configuration needs
to point the driver to proper driver library.
The platform-specific library is in charge of orchestrating the contrib
source utilized by the driver as well as providing the 'source.list'
and 'dep.list' files. It must include the generic library snippet
'repos/dde_linux/lib/wifi.inc' that deals with managing the emulation
environment code.
The 'repos/dde_linux/src/drivers/wifi/README' file contains more
detailed information on how to deploy the driver.
Issue #4861.
"-cpu phenom" does not support all CPU instructions necessary with
gcc 12 toolchain update issuing more SSSE3, e.g. pshufb.
Additionally, remove good/bad Qemu version check of outdated versions.
Issue genodelabs/genode-world#329
In 'SUPR3InitEx' (SUPLib.cpp) a 'SUPQUERYFUNCS' structure is allocated
with
! (PSUPQUERYFUNCS)RTMemAllocZ(SUP_IOCTL_QUERY_FUNCS_SIZE(CookieReq.u.Out.cFunctions));
where 'CookieReq.u.Out.cFunctions' is 0. To determine the size of the
allocation
! #define SUP_IOCTL_QUERY_FUNCS_SIZE(cFuncs) \
! RT_UOFFSETOF_DYN(SUPQUERYFUNCS, u.Out.aFunctions[(cFuncs)])
is used with cFuncs = 0 (SUPDrvIOC.h) leading to an allocation up to the
arrow below
! typedef struct SUPQUERYFUNCS
! {
! /** The header. */
! SUPREQHDR Hdr;
! union
! {
! struct
! {
! /** Number of functions returned. */
! uint32_t cFunctions;
! /** Array of functions. */
==> end of allocation
! SUPFUNC aFunctions[1];
! } Out;
! } u;
==> sizeof(SUPQUERYFUNCS)
! } SUPQUERYFUNCS, *PSUPQUERYFUNCS;
In sup.cc (Genode) 'ioctl(SUPQUERYFUNCS &request)' will lead to
'with_out_ioctl'
! auto &out = request.u.Out;
where auto is 'SUPQUERYFUNCS' and finally
! out = { };
will zero out 'SUPQUERYFUNCS' up to the second arrow above. Because
'RTMemAllocZ' will call 'calloc' to allocate the memory 'out = { };'
will corrupt the slab block after the allocation. Therefore, it is
reasonable to allocate at least 'sizeof(SUPQUERYFUNCS)'.
Note there might be other 'ioctl' cases like this. A better way might be
to use 'SUPQUERYFUNCS.Hdr.cbOut' to determine the 'out' size.
fixes#4675
Commit "vbox: avoid uncaught nic Empty_ack_queue exception" introduced a
performance regression due to packet retransmission because of faulty
GSO segment handling. As fixing the GSO handling is fairly complex, we
disable GSO until a fix was developed.
Issue #4820
Issue #4821
For Windows guests, it's crucial to configure the paravirtualization
provider in .vbox6 like follows. Otherwise, the TSC calibration fails
(issue #4726) and the CPU frequency (in task manager) is bogus.
<Paravirt provider="HyperV"/>
Fixes#4726
