[PATCH v7 3/4] Add system-wide tunables: Apply tunables part
DJ Delorie
dj@redhat.com
Fri Apr 17 18:18:41 GMT 2026
Load ld.so.cache and fetch the tunables extension. Apply
those tunables to the current program. We do not yet apply
security policies.
---
elf/dl-cache.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
elf/dl-tunables.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
elf/tunconf.h | 3 +++
3 files changed, 104 insertions(+)
diff --git a/elf/dl-cache.c b/elf/dl-cache.c
index 9d5fc05cd6..1aa64e4102 100644
--- a/elf/dl-cache.c
+++ b/elf/dl-cache.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include <dl-isa-level.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include "tunconf.h"
/* This is the starting address and the size of the mmap()ed file. */
static struct cache_file *cache;
@@ -606,3 +607,40 @@ _dl_unload_cache (void)
now. */
}
#endif
+
+const struct tunable_header_cached *
+_dl_load_cache_tunables (const char **data)
+{
+ struct cache_extension_all_loaded ext;
+ struct tunable_header_cached *thc;
+ struct tunable_entry_cached *tec;
+ int count;
+
+ if (_dl_check_ldsocache_needs_loading ())
+ _dl_maybe_load_ldsocache ();
+
+ if (cache_new)
+ *data = (const char *) cache_new;
+ else
+ return NULL;
+
+ if (!cache_extension_load (cache_new, cache, cachesize, &ext))
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* Validate length/contents here. */
+ if (ext.sections[cache_extension_tag_tunables].size
+ < sizeof(struct tunable_header_cached))
+ return NULL;
+
+ thc = (struct tunable_header_cached *)
+ ext.sections[cache_extension_tag_tunables].base;
+ tec = thc->tunables;
+ count = thc->num_tunables;
+
+ if (ext.sections[cache_extension_tag_tunables].base
+ + ext.sections[cache_extension_tag_tunables].size
+ < (void *) & tec[count])
+ return NULL;
+
+ return thc;
+}
diff --git a/elf/dl-tunables.c b/elf/dl-tunables.c
index 5c65e8b458..20e4056d74 100644
--- a/elf/dl-tunables.c
+++ b/elf/dl-tunables.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
#define TUNABLES_INTERNAL 1
#include "dl-tunables.h"
+#include "tunconf.h"
static char **
get_next_env (char **envp, char **name, char **val, char ***prev_envp)
@@ -302,6 +303,68 @@ __tunables_init (char **envp)
if (MALLOC_DEFAULT_THP_PAGESIZE > 0)
TUNABLE_SET (glibc, malloc, hugetlb, 1);
+#if defined(SHARED) && defined (USE_LDCONFIG)
+ const struct tunable_header_cached *thc;
+ const char *td;
+
+ thc = _dl_load_cache_tunables (&td);
+ if (thc != NULL)
+ {
+ for (int t = 0; t < thc->num_tunables; ++ t)
+ {
+ const struct tunable_entry_cached *tec = &( thc->tunables[t] );
+ int tid = tec->tunable_id;
+ const char *name = td + tec->name_offset;
+ const char *value = td + tec->value_offset;
+
+ /* Check that we have the correct tunable, and search by
+ name if needed. We rely on order of operations here to
+ avoid mis-indexing tunables[]. */
+ if (tid < 0 || tid >= tunables_list_size
+ || strcmp (name, tunable_list[tid].name) != 0)
+ {
+ /* It does not, search by name instead. */
+ tid = -1;
+ for (int i = 0; i < tunables_list_size; i++)
+ {
+ if (strcmp (name, tunable_list[i].name) == 0)
+ {
+ tid = i;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ if (tid == -1)
+ continue;
+ }
+ /* At this point, TID is valid for the tunable we want. See
+ if the parsed type matches the desired type. */
+
+ if (tunable_list[tid].type.type_code == TUNABLE_TYPE_STRING)
+ {
+ /* This is a memory leak but there's no easy way around
+ it, as the mapping will go away. */
+ tunable_list[tid].val.strval.str = __strdup (value);
+ tunable_list[tid].val.strval.len = strlen (value);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ tunable_val_t tval;
+ if (tec->flags & TUNCONF_FLAG_PARSED)
+ {
+ tval.numval = tec->parsed_value;
+ do_tunable_update_val (& tunable_list[tid],
+ &tval, NULL, NULL);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ tunable_initialize (& tunable_list[tid],
+ value, strlen (value));
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ }
+#endif /* defined(SHARED) && defined (USE_LDCONFIG) */
+
/* Ignore tunables for AT_SECURE programs. */
if (__libc_enable_secure)
return;
diff --git a/elf/tunconf.h b/elf/tunconf.h
index 7578605c5a..9551119167 100644
--- a/elf/tunconf.h
+++ b/elf/tunconf.h
@@ -38,3 +38,6 @@ void parse_tunconf (const char *filename, char *opt_chroot);
struct tunable_header_cached * get_tunconf_ext (uint32_t str_offset);
#define TUNCONF_SIZE(thc_p) (sizeof(struct tunable_header_cached) \
+ thc_p->num_tunables * sizeof (struct tunable_entry_cached))
+
+extern const struct tunable_header_cached *
+_dl_load_cache_tunables (const char **data);
--
2.47.3
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