Back in 2007, commit 0c97c9d437 ("'simple' error message functions by
Loic Grenie") introduced bb_simple_perror_msg() to allow for a lower
overhead call to bb_perror_msg() when only a string was being printed
with no parameters. This saves space for some CPU architectures because
it avoids the overhead of a call to a variadic function. However there
has never been a simple version of bb_error_msg(), and since 2007 many
new calls to bb_perror_msg() have been added that only take a single
parameter and so could have been using bb_simple_perror_message().
This changeset introduces 'simple' versions of bb_info_msg(),
bb_error_msg(), bb_error_msg_and_die(), bb_herror_msg() and
bb_herror_msg_and_die(), and replaces all calls that only take a
single parameter, or use something like ("%s", arg), with calls to the
corresponding 'simple' version.
Since it is likely that single parameter calls to the variadic functions
may be accidentally reintroduced in the future a new debugging config
option WARN_SIMPLE_MSG has been introduced. This uses some macro magic
which will cause any such calls to generate a warning, but this is
turned off by default to avoid use of the unpleasant macros in normal
circumstances.
This is a large changeset due to the number of calls that have been
replaced. The only files that contain changes other than simple
substitution of function calls are libbb.h, libbb/herror_msg.c,
libbb/verror_msg.c and libbb/xfuncs_printf.c. In miscutils/devfsd.c,
networking/udhcp/common.h and util-linux/mdev.c additonal macros have
been added for logging so that single parameter and multiple parameter
logging variants exist.
The amount of space saved varies considerably by architecture, and was
found to be as follows (for 'defconfig' using GCC 7.4):
Arm: -92 bytes
MIPS: -52 bytes
PPC: -1836 bytes
x86_64: -938 bytes
Note that for the MIPS architecture only an exception had to be made
disabling the 'simple' calls for 'udhcp' (in networking/udhcp/common.h)
because it made these files larger on MIPS.
Signed-off-by: James Byrne <james.byrne@origamienergy.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Between Busybox 1.24.2 and 1.25.0 the bb_info_msg() function was
eliminated and calls to it changed to be bb_error_msg(). The downside of
this is that daemons now log all messages to syslog at the LOG_ERR level
which makes it hard to filter errors from informational messages.
This change optionally re-introduces bb_info_msg(), controlled by a new
option FEATURE_SYSLOG_INFO, restores all the calls to bb_info_msg() that
were removed (only in applets that set logmode to LOGMODE_SYSLOG or
LOGMODE_BOTH), and also changes informational messages in ifplugd and
ntpd.
The code size change of this is as follows (using 'defconfig' on x86_64
with gcc 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04)
function old new delta
bb_info_msg - 182 +182
bb_vinfo_msg - 27 +27
static.log7 194 198 +4
log8 190 191 +1
log5 190 191 +1
crondlog 45 - -45
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(add/remove: 2/1 grow/shrink: 3/0 up/down: 215/-45) Total: 170 bytes
If you don't care about everything being logged at LOG_ERR level
then when FEATURE_SYSLOG_INFO is disabled Busybox actually gets smaller:
function old new delta
static.log7 194 200 +6
log8 190 193 +3
log5 190 193 +3
syslog_level 1 - -1
bb_verror_msg 583 581 -2
crondlog 45 - -45
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(add/remove: 0/2 grow/shrink: 3/1 up/down: 12/-48) Total: -36 bytes
Signed-off-by: James Byrne <james.byrne@origamienergy.com>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
This change retains "or later" state! No licensing _changes_ here,
only form is adjusted (article, space between "GPL" and "v2" and so on).
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
a bug where it underflows the string
a bug where it never frees parser_t struct
make read_config() return 0 if parser is NULL,
make config_close() accept and ignore NULL parser -
eliminates many if() blocks
reverse the sense of parser bit flags - negative flags
are harder to grok.
hexdump: revert the change to use config parser, it is BIGGER
and also requires additional quirks in parser
*: explicitly use PARSER_NORMAL instead of 0
function old new delta
login_main 1575 1596 +21
config_close 18 29 +11
bbunpack 383 391 +8
qgravechar 106 109 +3
rtnl_tab_initialize 121 117 -4
expand 1697 1693 -4
man_main 717 712 -5
nameif_main 674 668 -6
hexdump_main 597 591 -6
read_config 217 209 -8
dnsd_main 1478 1470 -8
sysctl_main 203 189 -14
config_open2 44 25 -19
make_device 1177 1141 -36
config_read 597 549 -48
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(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 4/11 up/down: 43/-158) Total: -115 bytes
One was a lib api change that was not updated and another
is a stack buffer overflow.
It also adds support for '*' in dnsd.conf. It resolves all hostnames to
a specific ip address. This is useful if you for example want redirect
all http traffic to your first-boot-web-wizard on you router/firewall.
By Timo Teras
