iPXE is fundamentally asynchronous in operation: some operations
continue in the background even after the foreground has continued to
a new task. For example, the closing FIN/ACK exchanges of a TCP
connection will take place in the background after an HTTP download
has completed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[malloc] Allow Valgrind to be used when all assertions are enabled
The free-memory-block traversal code triggers multiple warnings from
Valgrind when assertions are enabled, since the list consistency
checks performed by list_check() end up accessing areas that have been
marked as inaccessible.
Fix by ensuring that any memory areas that will be accessed by
list_check() are marked as defined when necessary.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[xfer] Avoid using stack-allocated memory in xfer_printf()
xfer_printf() occasionally has to deal with strings that are
potentially long, such as HTTP URIs with multiple query parameters.
Allocating these on the stack can lead to stack overruns and memory
corruption.
Fix by using vasprintf() instead of a stack allocation.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow TFTP to be configured out by moving the next-server setting
definition (which is used by autoboot.c) from tftp.c to settings.c.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[settings] Split fetching and storing out of setting type handlers
Refactor setting type handlers to parse and format values, rather than
storing and fetching formatted values.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[console] Do not share ANSI escape context between lineconsole users
An ANSI escape sequence context cannot be shared between multiple
users. Make the ANSI escape sequence context part of the line console
definition and provide individual contexts for each user.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[console] Add "log message" console usage and an internal syslog() call
Provide an internal syslog() function (unrelated to the syslog
console) which can be used to create log messages with specified
priorities.
The build-time constant LOG_LEVEL can be used to select the minimum
required priority for log messages. Any messages that do not have a
sufficient priority will be ignored (and will be optimised away at
compile-time).
The default LOG_LEVEL is LOG_NONE.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[console] Allow usage to be defined independently for each console
Add the concept of a "console usage", such as "standard output" or
"debug messages". Allow usages to be associated with each console
independently. For example, to send debugging output via the serial
port, while preventing it from appearing on the local console:
#define CONSOLE_SERIAL CONSOLE_USAGE_ALL
#define CONSOLE_PCBIOS ( CONSOLE_USAGE_ALL & ~CONSOLE_USAGE_DEBUG )
If no usages are explicitly specified, then a default set of usages
will be applied. For example:
#define CONSOLE_SERIAL
will have the same affect as
#define CONSOLE_SERIAL CONSOLE_USAGE_ALL
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[image] Simplify image management commands and internal API
Remove the name, cmdline, and action parameters from imgdownload() and
imgdownload_string(). These functions now simply download and return
an image.
Add the function imgacquire(), which will interpret a "name or URI
string" parameter and return either an existing image or a newly
downloaded image.
Use imgacquire() to merge similar image-management commands that
currently differ only by whether they take the name of an existing
image or the URI of a new image to download. For example, "chain" and
"imgexec" can now be merged.
Extend imgstat and imgfree commands to take an optional list of
images.
Remove the arbitrary restriction on the length of image names.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Trusted images may always be executed. Untrusted images may be
executed only if the current image trust requirement allows untrusted
images.
Images can be marked as trusted using image_trust(), and marked as
untrusted using image_untrust().
The current image trust requirement can be changed using
image_set_trust(). It is possible to make the change permanent, in
which case any future attempts to change the image trust requirement
will fail.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[syslog] Separate out generic line-based console functionality
Abstract out the generic line-handling portions of the syslog
putchar() routine, to allow use by other console types.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[image] Eliminate the register_and_xxx_image() functions
All users of imgdownload() require registration of the image, so make
registration an integral part of imgdownload() itself and simplify the
"action" parameter to be one of image_select(), image_exec() et al.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[cmdline] Make "sleep" command available by default
The "sleep" command is generally useful to have. For example:
:dhcp_retry
dhcp && goto dhcp_done
sleep 5
goto dhcp_retry
:dhcp_done
Make the "sleep" command available by default, leaving TIME_CMD
controlling only the (fairly specialist) "time" command.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[hw] Eliminate polling while waiting for window to open
Polling for the data-transfer window to become open is wasteful. We
can eliminate the polling loop by using hw_step() as the handler for
an xfer_window_changed() event.
If the window is already open at the time of instantiation, then
xfer_window_changed() may never be called. We can cover this case by
using hw_step() as the step() method of a one-shot process. Since the
signature for an xfer_window_changed() method is identical to the
signature for a process step() method, the same function can be used
for both.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Some processes execute only once, and exist solely in order to defer
execution until after the relevant instantiator method has returned.
Such processes do not need to be automatically rescheduled when
executing.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[process] Pass containing object pointer to process step() methods
Give the step() method a pointer to the containing object, rather than
a pointer to the process. This is consistent with the operation of
interface methods, and allows a single function to serve as both an
interface method and a process step() method.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
[xfer] Send xfer_window_changed() after xfer_vredirect()
Modify the default action for xfer_vredirect() to automatically send
xfer_window_changed() messages to both the new child and the parent
interfaces. This will allow the elimination of processes that simply
poll on xfer_window() to determine when a redirection has completed
successfully.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Expose the multiple-SAN-drive capability of the iPXE core via the iPXE
command line by adding commands to hook and unhook additional drives.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
There is no plausible scenario I can think of in which "isset" would
be used with more than one argument. Simplify the code by specifying
that exactly one argument is required.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Commit b5f5f73 ("[cmdline] Expand settings within each command-line
token individually") introduced a regression into the "isset" command:
it is now possible for command-line arguments to be empty strings, and
so "isset" cannot simply check for a non-empty argument list.
Restore previous behaviour by checking for the presence of any
non-empty arguments, rather than checking for a non-empty argument
list.
Reported-by: Nemtallah Daher <n.daher@csuohio.edu>
Tested-by: Nemtallah Daher <n.daher@csuohio.edu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown