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<title>passt/Makefile, branch 2023_10_04.f851084</title>
<subtitle>Plug A Simple Socket Transport</subtitle>
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<title>cppcheck: Use "exhaustive" level checking when available</title>
<updated>2023-10-04T21:24:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2023-09-29T05:50:21+00:00</published>
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Recent enough cppcheck versions (at least as of cppcheck 2.12) give this
error processing conf.c:

conf.c:1179:1: information: ValueFlow analysis is limited in conf. Use --check-level=exhaustive if full analysis is wanted. [checkLevelNormal]

Adding --check-level=exhaustive doesn't seem to significantly increase the
cppcheck run time for us, so enable it when possible, suppressing that
warning.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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Recent enough cppcheck versions (at least as of cppcheck 2.12) give this
error processing conf.c:

conf.c:1179:1: information: ValueFlow analysis is limited in conf. Use --check-level=exhaustive if full analysis is wanted. [checkLevelNormal]

Adding --check-level=exhaustive doesn't seem to significantly increase the
cppcheck run time for us, so enable it when possible, suppressing that
warning.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>siphash: Use incremental rather than all-at-once siphash functions</title>
<updated>2023-09-30T10:40:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2023-09-28T01:21:02+00:00</published>
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We have a bunch of variants of the siphash functions for different data
sizes.  The callers, in tcp.c, need to pack the various values they want to
hash into a temporary structure, then call the appropriate version.  We can
avoid the copy into the temporary by directly using the incremental
siphash functions.

The length specific hash functions also have an undocumented constraint
that the data pointer they take must, in fact, be aligned to avoid
unaligned accesses, which may cause crashes on some architectures.

So, prefer the incremental approach and remove the length-specific
functions.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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We have a bunch of variants of the siphash functions for different data
sizes.  The callers, in tcp.c, need to pack the various values they want to
hash into a temporary structure, then call the appropriate version.  We can
avoid the copy into the temporary by directly using the incremental
siphash functions.

The length specific hash functions also have an undocumented constraint
that the data pointer they take must, in fact, be aligned to avoid
unaligned accesses, which may cause crashes on some architectures.

So, prefer the incremental approach and remove the length-specific
functions.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>util: Consolidate and improve workarounds for clang-tidy issue 58992</title>
<updated>2023-09-27T15:26:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2023-09-21T04:49:39+00:00</published>
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We have several workarounds for a clang-tidy bug where the checker doesn't
recognize that a number of system calls write to - and therefore initialise
- a socket address.  We can't neatly use a suppression, because the bogus
warning shows up some time after the actual system call, when we access
a field of the socket address which clang-tidy erroneously thinks is
uninitialised.

Consolidate these workarounds into one place by using macros to implement
wrappers around affected system calls which add a memset() of the sockaddr
to silence clang-tidy.  This removes the need for the individual memset()
workarounds at the callers - and the somewhat longwinded explanatory
comments.

We can then use a #define to not include the hack in "real" builds, but
only consider it for clang-tidy.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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We have several workarounds for a clang-tidy bug where the checker doesn't
recognize that a number of system calls write to - and therefore initialise
- a socket address.  We can't neatly use a suppression, because the bogus
warning shows up some time after the actual system call, when we access
a field of the socket address which clang-tidy erroneously thinks is
uninitialised.

Consolidate these workarounds into one place by using macros to implement
wrappers around affected system calls which add a memset() of the sockaddr
to silence clang-tidy.  This removes the need for the individual memset()
workarounds at the callers - and the somewhat longwinded explanatory
comments.

We can then use a #define to not include the hack in "real" builds, but
only consider it for clang-tidy.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Allow C11 code, not just C99 code</title>
<updated>2023-08-03T23:17:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-01T03:36:45+00:00</published>
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C11 has some features that will allow us to make some things a bit cleaner.
Alter the Makefile to tell the compiler to allow us to use C11 code.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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C11 has some features that will allow us to make some things a bit cleaner.
Alter the Makefile to tell the compiler to allow us to use C11 code.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "MAKE: Fix parallel builds; .o files; .gitignore; new makedocs"</title>
<updated>2023-07-10T04:33:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-10T04:33:44+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit cc2a6bec3cf2ff6ed0c043ada93d352466614373: I
applied that patch by mistake.

Fixes: cc2a6bec3cf2 ("MAKE: Fix parallel builds; .o files; .gitignore; new makedocs")
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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This reverts commit cc2a6bec3cf2ff6ed0c043ada93d352466614373: I
applied that patch by mistake.

Fixes: cc2a6bec3cf2 ("MAKE: Fix parallel builds; .o files; .gitignore; new makedocs")
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>MAKE: Fix parallel builds; .o files; .gitignore; new makedocs</title>
<updated>2023-07-07T20:34:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KuhnChris</name>
<email>kuhnchris@kuhnchris.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-28T14:07:28+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>passt: Relicense to GPL 2.0, or any later version</title>
<updated>2023-04-06T16:00:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-05T18:11:44+00:00</published>
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In practical terms, passt doesn't benefit from the additional
protection offered by the AGPL over the GPL, because it's not
suitable to be executed over a computer network.

Further, restricting the distribution under the version 3 of the GPL
wouldn't provide any practical advantage either, as long as the passt
codebase is concerned, and might cause unnecessary compatibility
dilemmas.

Change licensing terms to the GNU General Public License Version 2,
or any later version, with written permission from all current and
past contributors, namely: myself, David Gibson, Laine Stump, Andrea
Bolognani, Paul Holzinger, Richard W.M. Jones, Chris Kuhn, Florian
Weimer, Giuseppe Scrivano, Stefan Hajnoczi, and Vasiliy Ulyanov.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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In practical terms, passt doesn't benefit from the additional
protection offered by the AGPL over the GPL, because it's not
suitable to be executed over a computer network.

Further, restricting the distribution under the version 3 of the GPL
wouldn't provide any practical advantage either, as long as the passt
codebase is concerned, and might cause unnecessary compatibility
dilemmas.

Change licensing terms to the GNU General Public License Version 2,
or any later version, with written permission from all current and
past contributors, namely: myself, David Gibson, Laine Stump, Andrea
Bolognani, Paul Holzinger, Richard W.M. Jones, Chris Kuhn, Florian
Weimer, Giuseppe Scrivano, Stefan Hajnoczi, and Vasiliy Ulyanov.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Makefile: Enable external override for TARGET</title>
<updated>2023-03-17T07:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2023-03-15T09:08:47+00:00</published>
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A cross-architecture build might pass a target-specific CC on 'make',
and not on 'make install', and this is what happens in Debian
cross-qa tests.

Given that we select binaries to be installed depending on the target
architecture, this means we would build AVX2 binaries in any case on
a x86_64 build machine.

By overriding TARGET in package build rules, we can tell the Makefile
about the target architecture, also for the 'install' (Makefile)
target.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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A cross-architecture build might pass a target-specific CC on 'make',
and not on 'make install', and this is what happens in Debian
cross-qa tests.

Given that we select binaries to be installed depending on the target
architecture, this means we would build AVX2 binaries in any case on
a x86_64 build machine.

By overriding TARGET in package build rules, we can tell the Makefile
about the target architecture, also for the 'install' (Makefile)
target.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Makefile: Fix SuperH 4 builds: it's AUDIT_ARCH_SH, not AUDIT_ARCH_SH4</title>
<updated>2023-03-08T23:36:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2023-02-27T23:54:56+00:00</published>
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sh4 builds currently fail because of this:
  https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=passt&amp;arch=sh4&amp;ver=0.0%7Egit20230216.4663ccc-1&amp;stamp=1677091350&amp;raw=0

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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sh4 builds currently fail because of this:
  https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=passt&amp;arch=sh4&amp;ver=0.0%7Egit20230216.4663ccc-1&amp;stamp=1677091350&amp;raw=0

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Makefile, seccomp.sh: Fix cross-builds, adjust syscalls list to compiler</title>
<updated>2023-03-08T23:36:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2023-02-27T23:53:01+00:00</published>
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Debian cross-building automatic checks:

  http://crossqa.debian.net/src/passt

currently fail because we don't use the right target architecture and
compiler while building the system call lists and resolving their
numbers in seccomp.sh. Pass ARCH and CC to seccomp.sh and use them.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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Debian cross-building automatic checks:

  http://crossqa.debian.net/src/passt

currently fail because we don't use the right target architecture and
compiler while building the system call lists and resolving their
numbers in seccomp.sh. Pass ARCH and CC to seccomp.sh and use them.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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