March-April 2004 FreeBSD Status Report

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 16:00:24 -0600
March-April 2004 Status Report

                                 Introduction

   2004 continues on with wonderful progress. Work continues on locking
   down the network stack, ACPI made more great strides, an ARM port
   appeared in the tree, and the FreeBSD 4.10 release cycle wrapped up.
   Once 4.10 is released, the next big focus will be FreeBSD 5.3. We
   expect this is be the start of the 5-STABLE branch, meaning that not
   only will it be stable for production use, it will also be largely
   feature complete and stable from an internal API standpoint. We expect
   to release 5.3 in mid-summer, and we encourage everyone to download
   the latest snapshots from for a preview.

   Thanks,

   Scott Long
     * ACPI
     * ATA project Status Report
     * Automatic sizing of TCP send buffers
     * Binary security updates for FreeBSD
     * Book: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating
       System
     * CAM lockdown and threading
     * Convert ipfw2 to use PFIL_HOOKS mechanism
     * Cronyx Tau-ISA driver
     * FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project
     * FreeBSD threading support
     * FreeBSD/arm
     * GEOM Gate
     * Improved Multibyte/Wide Character Support
     * libarchive/bsdtar
     * Move ARP out of routing table
     * Network interface naming changes
     * Network Stack Locking
     * OpenOffice.org porting status
     * PCI Powerstates and Resource
     * Porting OpenBSD's packet filter
     * SMPng Status Report
     * Status Report 
     * Sync protocols (Netgraph and SPPP)
     * The FreeBSD Simplified Chinese Project
     * TrustedBSD Audit
     * TrustedBSD Mandatory Access Control (MAC)
     * TrustedBSD Security-Enhanced BSD (SEBSD) port
     * Verify source reachability option for ipfw2

ACPI

   URL: http://www.root.org/~nate/freebsd/
   URL: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi

   Contact: Nate Lawson <njl_at_FreeBSD.org>

   Much of the ACPI project is waiting for architectural changes to be
   completed. For instance, the cpufreq driver requires newbus
   attachments for CPUs. Support code for this should be committed at the
   time of publication. Other architectural changes needed include rman
   support for memory/port resources and a generic hotkey and extras
   driver. Important work in other areas of the kernel including PCI
   powerstate support and APIC support have been invaluable in improving
   ACPI on modern platforms. Thanks go to Warner Losh and John Baldwin
   for this work.

   Code which is mostly completed and will go in once the groundwork is
   finished includes the cpufreq framework, an ACPI floppy controller
   driver, and full support for dynamic Cx states.

   ACPI-CA was updated to 20040402 in early April. This has some GPE
   issues that persist in 20040427 that will hopefully be resolved by the
   date of publication.

   I'd like to welcome Mark Santcroos (marks_at_) to the FreeBSD team. He
   has helped in the past with debugging ACPI issues. If any developers
   are interested in assisting with ACPI, please see the ACPI TODO and
   send us an email.
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ATA project Status Report

   Contact: Søren Schmidt <sos_at_FreeBSD.org>
   There is finally support (except for RAID5) for the Promise SX4/SX4000
   line of controllers. The support is rudimentary still, and doesn't
   really make any good use of the cache/sequencer HW yet. The Silicon
   Image 3114 support has been completed. Lots of bug fixes and cleanups.
   Future work now concentrates on new controller chips (Marvell SATA
   chips probably the most prominent) and getting the SATA support
   finished so that hotswap etc works with SATA HW as well. Also ATA RAID
   is about to get rewritten to take advantage of the features that the
   ATA subsystem now offers, including support for the HW on
   Promise/Marvell and the like controllers. A number of new RAID
   metadata

   formats (Intel, AMI) is also in the works.
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Automatic sizing of TCP send buffers

   URL:
   http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-jan-2004-feb-2004.html#Autom
   atic-sizing-of-TCP-send-buffers

   Contact: Andre Oppermann <andre_at_FreeBSD.org>

   The current TCP send and receive buffers are static and set to a
   conservative value to preserve kernel memory. This is sub-optimal for
   connections with a high bandwidth*delay product because the size of
   the TCP send buffer determines how big the send window can get. For
   high bandwidth trans-continental links this seriously limits the
   maximum transfer speed per TCP connection. A moredetailed description
   from the last status report can be found with the link above.

   Work on this project has been stalled due to some other network stack
   projects with higher precedence (ipfw2 to pfil_hooks and
   ip_input/ip_output cleanups).
     _________________________________________________________________

Binary security updates for FreeBSD

   URL: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/

   Contact: Colin Percival <cperciva_at_daemonology.net>

   Having recently passed its first birthday, FreeBSD Update is now being
   used on about 170 machines every day; on a typical day, around 60
   machines will download updates (the others being already up to date).
   To date, over 157000 files have been updated on over 4200 machines.
     _________________________________________________________________

Book: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

   URL: http://www.mckusick.com/FreeBSDbook.html

   Contact: Kirk McKusick <mckusick_at_freebsd.org>
   Contact: George Neville-Neil <gnn_at_neville-neil.com>

   The new Book "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating
   System" is the successor of the legendary "The Design and
   Implementation of 4.4BSD" book which has become the de-facto standard
   for teaching of Operating System internals in universities world-wide.

   This new and completely reworked edition is based on FreeBSD 5.2 and
   the upcoming FreeBSD 5.3 releases and contains in-details looks into
   all areas (from virtual memory management to interprocess
   communication and network stack) of the operating system on 700 pages.

   It is now in final production by Addison-Wesley and will be available
   in early August 2004. The ISBN is 0-201-70245-2.
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CAM lockdown and threading

   Contact: Scott Long <scottl_at_FreeBSD.org>

   Work has begun on locking down the CAM subsystem. The project is
   divided into several steps:
     * Separation of the SCSI probe peripheral from cam_xpt.c to
       scsi_probe.c
     * Threading of the device probe sequence.
     * Locking and reference counting the peripheral drivers.
     * Locking the XPT and device queues.
     * Locking one or more SIMs and devising a way for non-locked drivers
       to function.

   While the immediate goal of this work is to lock CAM, it also points
   us in the direction of separating out the SCSI-specific knowledgefrom
   the core. This will allow other transports to be written, such as SAS,
   iSCSI, and ATA.

   Progress is being tracked in the FreeBSD Perforce server in the
   camlock branch. I will make public patches available once it has
   progressed far enough for reasonable testing. So far, the first two
   items are being worked on.
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Convert ipfw2 to use PFIL_HOOKS mechanism

   URL:
   http://www.nrg4u.com/freebsd/ipfw-pfilhooks-and-more-20040510.diff

   Contact: Andre Oppermann <andre_at_FreeBSD.org>

   ipfw2 is built directly into ip_input() and ip_output() and it makes
   these functions more complicated. For some time now we have the
   generic packet filter mechanism PFIL_HOOKS which are used by IPFILTER
   and the new OpenBSD PF firewall packages to hook themselves into the
   IP input and output path.

   This patch makes ipfw2 fully self contained and callable through the
   PFIL_HOOKS. This is still work in progress and DUMMYNET and IPDIVERT
   plus Layer2 firewall are not yet fully functional again but normal
   firewalling with it works just fine.

   The patch contains some more cleanups of ip_input() and ip_output()
   that is work in progress too.
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Cronyx Tau-ISA driver

   URL: http://www.cronyx.ru/hardware/wan.html

   Contact: Roman Kurakin <rik_at_FreeBSD.org>

   ctau(4) driver for Cronyx Tau-ISA was added. Cronyx Tau-ISA is family
   of synchronous WAN adapters with various set of interfaces such as
   V.35, RS-232, RS-530(449), E1 (both framed and unframed). This is a
   second family of Cronyx adapters that is supported by FreeBSD now. The
   first one was Cronyx Sigma-ISA, cx(4).

   Cronyx Tau-PCI family will become a third one. The peculiarity of this
   driver that it contains private code. This code is distributed as
   obfuscated source code with usual open source license agreement.Since
   code is protected by obfuscation it is satisfy needs of commerce. On
   the other hand it still stays a source code and thus it becomes closer
   to open source projects. I hope this form of private code distribution
   will become a real alternative to object form.
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FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project

   URL: http://www.evilcoder.org/index.cgi?i=nav&t=freebsd

   Contact: Remko Lodder <remko_at_elvandar.org>

   The FreeBSD Dutch Documentation Project is a ongoing project in
   translating the handbook and other documentation to the Dutch
   language. Currently we have a small team of individuals who translate,
   check other's work, and publish them on the internet. You can view the
   current status on the webpage (listed above). Still we can use more
   people helping out, since we have a long way to go. Every hand that
   wants to help, contact me, and i will provide you details on how we
   work etc. Currently the project has translated the handbook pages of:
   The X Windows System, and Configuration and Tuning, they only need to
   be checked before publishing.
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FreeBSD threading support

   URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~marcel/tls.html
   URL: http://www.freebsd.org/kse/index.html

   Contact: David Xu <davidxu_at_freebsd.org>
   Contact: Doug Rabson <dfr_at_freebsd.org>
   Contact: Julian Elischer <julian_at_freebsd.org>
   Contact: Marcel Moolinar <marcel_at_freebsd.org_at_freebsd.org>
   Contact: Dan Eischen <deischen_at_freebsd.org>

   Threading developers have been active behind the scenes though not
   much has been visible. Real Life(TM) has been hard on us as a group
   however.

   Marcel and Davidxu have both (individually) been looking at the
   support for debugging threaded programs. David has a set of patches
   that allow gdb to correctly handle KSE programs and patches are being
   considered for libthr based processes. Marcel added a Thread ID to
   allow debugging code to unambiguously specify a thread to debug. He
   has also been looking at corefile support. Both sets of patches are
   preliminary.

   Dan Eischen continues to support people migrating to libpthreads and
   it seems to be going well.

   Doug Rabson has done his usual miracle work and produced a set of
   preliminary patches to implement TLS (Thread Local Storage) for the
   i386 platform.

   Julian Elischer is investigating some refactoring of the kernel
   support code.

   Platforms:

   i386, amd64, ia64 libpthread works.

   alpha, sparc64 not implemented.
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FreeBSD/arm

   Contact: Olivier Houchard <cognet_at_FreeBSD.org>

   FreeBSD/arm is now in the FreeBSD CVS tree. Dynamic libraries now
   work, and NO_CXX=true NO_RESCUE=true buildworld works too (with
   patches for toolchain that will live outside the tree for now). Now
   the focus should be on xscale support.
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GEOM Gate

   Contact: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd_at_FreeBSD.org>

   GEOM Gate class is now committed as well as ggatec(8), ggated(8) and
   ggatel(8) utilities. It makes distribution of disk devices through the
   network possible, but on the disk level (don't confuse it with NFS,
   which provides exporting data on the file system level).
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Improved Multibyte/Wide Character Support

   Contact: Tim Robbins <tjr_at_FreeBSD.org>

   New locales: Unicode UTF-8 locales have been added to the base system.
   All of the locales previously supported by FreeBSD now have a
   corresponding UTF-8 version, along with one or two new ones -- 53 in
   all.

   Library changes: The restartable conversion functions (mbrtowc(),
   wcrtomb(), etc.) in the C library have been updated to handle partial
   characters in the way prescribed by the C99 standard. The <wctype.h>
   functions have been optimized for handling large, fragmented character
   sets like Unicode and GB18030. Documentation has been improved.

   Utilities: The ls utility has been modified to work with wide
   characters internally when determining whether a character in a
   filename is printable, and how many column positions it takes on the
   screen. Character handling in the wc utility has been made more
   robust. Other text-processing utilities (expand, fold, unexpand, uniq)
   have been modified, but these changes have not been committed until
   the performance impact can be evaluated. Work on a POSIX-style
   localedef utility has started, with the aim to have it replace the
   current mklocale and colldef utilities in FreeBSD 6. (It is currently
   on the back-burner awaiting a response to a POSIX defect report.)

   Future directions: wide character handling functions need to be
   optimized so that they are more competitive with the single-byte
   functions when dealing with 8-bit character sets. Utilities need to be
   modified to handle multibyte characters, but with a careful eye on
   performance. Localedef needs to be finished.
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libarchive/bsdtar

   URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/

   Contact: Tim Kientzle <kientzle_at_FreeBSD.org>

   Both bsdtar and libarchive are now part of -CURRENT. A few minor
   problems have been reported and addressed, including performance
   issues with many hard-links, and options required by certain packages.
   For now, the "tar" command is still an alias for "gtar." Those who
   would like to use bsdtar as the default system tar can define
   WITH_BSDTAR to make "tar" be an alias for "bsdtar."

   My current plan is to make bsdtar be the default in -CURRENT in about
   another month, probably after the 5-STABLE split, and remove gtar from
   -CURRENT sometime later. It's still open if and when this switch will
   occur in 5-STABLE. On the one hand, I see potential problems if
   5-STABLE and 6-CURRENT have different tar commands; on the other hand,
   switching could be disruptive for some users.
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Move ARP out of routing table

   URL:
   http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-April/026380.h
   tml

   Contact: Luigi Rizzo <luigi_at_FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: Andre Oppermann <andre_at_FreeBSD.org>

   The ARP IP address to MAC address mapping does not belong into the
   routing table (FIB) as it is currently done. This will move it to its
   own hash based structure which will be instantiated per each 802.1
   broadcast domain. With this change it is possible to have more than
   one interface in the same IP subnet and layer 2 broadcast domain. The
   ARP handling and the routing table will be quite a bit simplified
   afterwards. As an additional benefit full MAC address based accounting
   will be provided.

   Luigi has become the driver of this project and posted a first
   implementation for comments on 25. April 2004 (see link).
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Network interface naming changes

   Contact: Brooks Davis <brooks_at_FreeBSD.org>

   An enhanced network interface cloning API has been created. It allows
   interfaces to support more complex names then the current name# style.
   This functionality has been used to enable interesting cloners like
   auto-configuring vlan interfaces. Other features include locking of
   cloner structures and the ability of drivers to reject destroy
   requests. A patch has been posted to the freebsd-net mailing list for
   review and will be committed in early May. This work is taking place
   in the perforce repository under: //depot/user/brooks/xname/...
     _________________________________________________________________

Network Stack Locking

   URL: http://www.freebsd.org/smp/
   URL: http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/netperf/

   Contact: Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org>

   This project is aimed at converting the FreeBSD network stack from
   running under the single Giant kernel lock to permitting it to run in
   a fully parallel manner on multiple CPUs (i.e., a fully threaded
   network stack). This will improve performance/latency through
   reentrancy and preemption on single-processor machines, and also on
   multi-processor machines by permitting real parallelism in the
   processing of network traffic. As of FreeBSD 5.2, it was possible to
   run low level network functions, as well as the IP filtering and
   forwarding plane, without the Giant lock, as well as "process to
   completion" in the interrupt handler.

   Work continues to improve the maturity and completeness of the locking
   (and performance) of the network stack for 5.3. The network stack
   development branch has been updated to the latest CVS HEAD, as well as
   the following and more:
     * Review of socket flag and socket buffer flag locking; so_state
       broken out into multiple fields covered by different locks to
       avoid lock orders in frobbing the so_state field. Work in
       progress.
     * WITNESS now includes hard ordering for many network locks to
       improve lock order debugging process.
     * MAC Framework modified to use pcbs instead of sockets in a great
       many situations to avoid socket locking in network layer,
       especially when generating new mbufs.
     * New annotations relating to socket and interface locking.
     * Began NetGraph review and corrected NetGraph socket locking
       problems.
     * sendfile() locking appears now to be fixed, albeit holding Giant
       more than strictly necessary.
     * if_ppp global variable locking performed and merged.
     * A variety of race conditions and bugs in soreceive() locking
       fixed, including existing race conditions triggered only rarely in
       -HEAD and -STABLE that triggered easily with SMP and Giant-free
       operation.
     * Locking of socket buffer and socket fields from fifofs. Proposed
       patch to correct lock order problem between vnode interlock and
       socket buffer lock order problems. fifofs interactions with UNIX
       domain sockets cleaned up.
     * Research into KQueue issues. Feedback to KQueue locking patch
       authors.
     * netatalk AARP locked down, MPSAFE, and merged to CVS.
     * Lock order issues between socket, socket buffer, and UNIX domain
       socket locks corrected. Race conditions and potential deadlocks
       removed.
     * if_gif recursion cleanups, if_gif is much more MPSAFE.
     * First pass MPSAFE locking of NFS server uses an NFS server
       subsystem lock to allow so_upcall() from socket layer without
       Giant. This closes race conditions in the NFS server when
       operating Giant free. Second pass for data based locking is also
       in testing.
     * if_sl.c (SLIP) fine-grained locking completed and merged to CVS.
     * if_tun.c (tunnel) fine-grained locking completed and merged to
       CVS.
     * Merge of conditional Giant locking on debug.mpsafenet to CVS;
       semantics now changed so that Giant isn't just twiddled over the
       forwarding path, but the entire stack. Must be used with caution
       unless running with our patches. Callouts also convered to
       conditional safety.
     * if_gif, if_gre global variables locked and merged to CVS.
     * netatalk DDP cleanup (break out PCB from protocol code), largely
       locked down at the PCB level. Some work remains to be done before
       patches can be distributed for testing, but close to MPSAFE.
     * Began review of netipx, netinet6 code for locking requirements,
       some bugs corrected.
     * Race conditions in handling of socket so_comp, so_incomp debugged
       and hopefully closed through new locking of these fields.
     * Many new locking annotations, field documentation, lock order
       documentation.

   Netperf patches are proving to be quite stable in a broad variety of
   environment, as long as non-MPSAFE chunks are avoided. Kqueue, IPv6,
   and ifnet locking remain the most critical areas where additional
   functionality is required. Focus is shifting from new development to
   in depth testing, performance measurement, and interactions with other
   subsystems.

   This work would not be possible without contributions from the
   following people (and no doubt many others): John Baldwin, Bob Bishop,
   Brooks Davis, Pawel Jakub Dawidek, Matthew Dodd, Julian Elischer,
   Ruslan Ermilov, John-Mark Gurney, Jeffrey Hsu, Kris Kennaway, Roman
   Kurakin, Max Laier, Sam Leffler, Scott Long, Rick Maklem, Bosko
   Milekic, George Neville-Neil, Andre Oppermann, Luigi Rizzo, Jeff
   Roberson, Tim Robbins, Mike Silberback, Bruce Simpson, Seigo Tanimura,
   Hajimu UMEMOTO, Jennifer Yang, Peter Wemm. We hope to present these
   patches on arch_at_ within a few days, although some elements required
   continued refinement (especially socket locking).
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OpenOffice.org porting status

   Contact: NAKATA Maho <maho_at_FreeBSD.org>

   After almost three years efforts for porting OpenOffice.org 1.0.x and
   1.1.0 for FreeBSD by Martin Blapp (mbr_at_FreeBSD.org) and other
   contributors, There are four version of OpenOffice.org (OOo) in ports
   tree. 1.1.1: stable version, 1.1.2: next stable, 2.0: developer and
   1.0.3: legacy.

   Stable version 1.1.1 in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1/
   builds/installs/works fine for 5.2.1-RELEASE. Packages for
   5.2.1-RELEASE, 26 localized versions and 4.10-PRELEASE only English
   version, are available at
   http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ooomi
   sc/ (note: source of OOo 1.1.1.RC3 is identical OOo 1.1.1)

   Patches needed to build are currently 18 for 1.1.1, and 161 for 1.0.3
   the number of patches are greatly reduced.

   OOo 1.1.2, the next stable version in
   /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1-devel is also builds/installs/works
   fine for 5.2.1-RELEASE. We are planning to upgrade this port as soon
   as 1.1.2 will be released.

   Next major release, 2.0 (planned to be released at January 2005
   according to
   http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OpenOffice_org_trunk.html),
   /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-2.0-devel, now compiles for
   5.2.1-RELEASE but have big problem that prohibits to remove BROKEN.

   Legacy version, OOo 1.0.3: /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.0/ I'm not
   interested in this port. We hope someone else will maintain this.

   For builds, my main environment is 5.2.1-RELEASE, and I have no access
   to 4-series, so several build problems had been reported for5-current
   and 4-stable, however, they now seems to be fixed. Please make sure
   your Java and/or kernel are up-to-date.

   For version 1.1.1, yet we have serious reproducible core dumps, this
   means OOo cannot pass the Quality Assurance protocol ofOpenOffice.org
   (http://qa.openoffice.org), so we cannot release OOo as quality
   assured package. It seems to be FreeBSD's userland bug, since some
   reports show that there are no problem for 4-stable but we still
   searchingthe reason.

   Note that developers should sign JCA (Joint Copyright Assignment)
   before submitting patches via PR or e-mail, otherwise patches won'tbe
   integrated to OOo's source tree. We seriously need more developers,
   testers and builders.
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PCI Powerstates and Resource

   Contact: Warner Losh <imp_at_FreeBSD.org>

   Lazy allocation of pci resources has been merged into the main tree.
   These changes allow FreeBSD to run on computers where PnP OS is set to
   true. In addition, the saving and restoring of the resources across
   suspend/resume has helped some devices come back from suspend.

   Future work will focus on bus numbering.
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Porting OpenBSD's packet filter

   URL: http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/
   URL: http://www.benzedrine.cx/pf.html
   URL: http://openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html
   URL: http://www.rofug.ro/projects/freebsd-altq/

   Contact: Max Laier <mlaier_at_FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: Daniel Hartmeier <dhartmei_at_FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: Pyun YongHyeon <yongari_at_kt-is.co.kr>

   The two months after the import was done were actually rather quiet.
   We imported a couple of minor fixes from the OpenBSD stable branch.
   The import of tcpdump 3.8.3 and libpcap 0.8.3 done by Bruce M.Simpson
   in late March finally put us into the position to build a working
   pflogd(8) and provide rc.d linkage for it. Tcpdump now understandsthe
   pflog(4) pseudo-NIC packet format and can be used to read the
   log-files.

   There has also been work behind the scenes to prepare an import of the
   OpenBSD 3.5 sources. The patches are quite stable already andwill be
   posted shortly. Altq is in the making as well and going alongquite
   well based on the great work from rofug.ro, but as it needs
   modifications to every network driver which have to be tested
   thoroughly it needs more time.
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SMPng Status Report

   URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org/smp/

   Contact: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: <smp_at_FreeBSD.org>

   Several folks continue to work on the locking the network stack as
   noted elsewhere in this report. Outside of the network stack, the
   following items were worked on during the March and April time frame.
   Giant was pushed down in the fork, exit, and wait system calls as far
   as possible. Alan Cox (alc_at_) continues to lock the VM subsystem and
   push down Giant where appropriate. A few system calls and callouts
   were marked MP safe as well.

   A few changes were made to the interrupt thread infrastructure.
   Interrupt thread preemption was finally enabled on the Alpha
   architecture with the help of the recently added support to the
   scheduler for pinning threads to a specific CPU. An optimization to
   reduce context switches during heavy interrupt load was added as well
   as rudimentary interrupt storm protection.
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Status Report

   URL:
   http://wleiden.webweaving.org:8080/svn/node-config/other/enh-sec-patch
   /README
   URL:
   http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?amp;sid=03/12/27/2035245&mode=threa
   d&tid=122&tid=126&tid=137&tid=172&tid=185&tid=190&tid=193

   Contact: Roland van Laar <the_mip_rvl_at_myrealbox.com>

   This patch if for if_wi current. It enables you to disable the ssid
   broadcasting and it also allows you to disable clients connecting with
   a blank ssid.
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Sync protocols (Netgraph and SPPP)

   Contact: Roman Kurakin <rik_at_FreeBSD.org>

   As part of my work on synchronous protocol stack a ng_sppp driver was
   added to the system. This driver allows to use sppp as a Netgraph
   node. Now I plan to update sppp driver as much as possible to make it
   in sync with Cronyxs one (PPP part). Also I work on FRF.12 support in
   FreeBSD (now I have FRF.12 support for Netgraph and SPPP (and for
   Cronyx linux fr driver) but only End-to-End). I plan to test it by my
   self within a week and after that I plan to make full support of
   FRF.12.

   If you want to get current version and test it, please feel free to
   contact me.
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The FreeBSD Simplified Chinese Project

   URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org.cn
   URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org.cn/snap/doc/zh_CN.GB2312/books/handbook/
   URL: http://www.freebsd.org.cn/cndocs/translations.html
   URL: http://www.FreeBSD.org.cn/snap/zh_CN/

   Contact: Xin LI <delphij_at_frontfree.net>

   We have finished about 75% of the Handbook translation work. In the
   last two months we primarily worked on bringing the handbook chapters
   more up to date. To make the translation more high quality we are also
   doing some revision on it.

   We are still looking for manpower on SGML'ifying the FAQ translation
   which has been done last year by several volunteers.
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TrustedBSD Audit

   URL: http://www.TrustedBSD.org/

   Contact: Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: TrustedBSD Discussion List
   <trustedbsd-discuss_at_TrustedBSD.org>

   The TrustedBSD Project is producing an implementation of CAPP
   compliant Audit support for use with FreeBSD based on the Apple Darwin
   implementation.

   Experimentally integrated the XNU audit implementation from Apple's
   Darwin 7.2 into Perforce.

   Adapted audit framework to compile into FreeBSD -- required modifying
   memory allocation and synchronization to use FreeBSD SMPng primitives
   instead of Mach primitives. Pushed down the Giant lock out of most of
   the audit code, various other FreeBSD adaptations such as suser() API
   changes, using BSD threads, td->td_ucred, etc.

   Adapted per-thread audit data to map to FreeBSD threads

   Cleaned up userspace/kernel API interactions, including udev_t/ dev_t
   inconsistencies between Darwin and FreeBSD.

   Use vn_fullpath() instead of vn_getpath(), which is a less complete
   solution we'll need to address in the future.

   Basic kernel framework now operates on FreeBSD; praudit tool written
   that can parse FreeBSD BSM and Solaris BSM.
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TrustedBSD Mandatory Access Control (MAC)

   URL: http://www.TrustedBSD.org/

   Contact: Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: TrustedBSD Discussion List
   <trustedbsd-discuss_at_TrustedBSD.org>

   The TrustedBSD Mandatory Access Control (MAC) Framework permits the
   FreeBSD kernel and userspace access control policies to be adapted at
   compile-time, boot-time, or run-time. The MAC Framework provides
   common infrastructure components, such as policy-agnostic labeling,
   making it possible to easily development and distribute new access
   control policy modules. Sample modules include Biba, MLS, and Type
   Enforcement, as well as a variety of system hardening policies.

   The TrustedBSD MAC development branch in Perforce was integrated to
   the most recent 5-CURRENT.

   mdmfs(8) -l to create multi-label mdmfs file systems (merged).

   Diskless boot updated to support MAC.

   Re-arrangement of MAC Framework code to break out mac_net.c into
   mac_net.c, mac_inet.c, mac_socket.c (merged).

   libugidfw(3) grows bsde_add_rule(3) to automatically allocate rule
   numbers (merged). ugidfw(8) grows 'add' to use this (merged).

   pseudofs(4) no longer requires MAC localizations.

   BPF fine-grained locking now used to protect BPD descriptor labels
   instead of Giant (merged).

   Prefer inpcb's as the source of labels over sockets when creating new
   mbufs throughout the network stack, reducing socket locking issues for
   labels.
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TrustedBSD Security-Enhanced BSD (SEBSD) port

   URL: http://www.TrustedBSD.org/

   Contact: Robert Watson <rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org>
   Contact: TrustedBSD Discussion List
   <trustedbsd-discuss_at_TrustedBSD.org>

   TrustedBSD "Security-Enhanced BSD" (SEBSD) is a port of NSA's SELinux
   FLASK security architecture, Type Enforcement (TE) policy engine and
   language, and sample policy to FreeBSD using the TrustedBSD MAC
   Framework. SEBSD is available as a loadable policy module for the MAC
   Framework, along with a set of userspace extensions support
   security-extended labeling calls. In most cases, existing MAC
   Framework functions provide the necessary abstractions for SEBSD to
   plug in without SEBSD-specific changes, but some extensions to the MAC
   Framework have been required; these changes are developed in the SEBSD
   development branch, then merged to the MAC branch as they mature, and
   then to the FreeBSD development tree.

   Unlike other MAC Framework policy modules, the SEBSD module falls
   under the GPL, as it is derived from NSA's implementation. However,
   the eventual goal is to support plugging SEBSD into a base FreeBSD
   install without any modifications to FreeBSD itself.

   Integrated to latest FreeBSD CVS and MAC branch.

   New FreeBSD code drop updated for capabilities in preference to
   superuser checks.

   Installation instructions now available!
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Verify source reachability option for ipfw2

   URL:
   http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-jan-2004-feb-2004.html#Verif
   y-source-reachability-option-for-ipfw2
   URL:
   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&apropos=0&sektion=0&manp
   ath=FreeBSD+5.2-current&format=html

   Contact: Andre Oppermann <andre_at_FreeBSD.org>

   The verify source reachability option for ipfw2 has been committed on
   23. April 2004 to FreeBSD-CURRENT. For more information see the links
   above.
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