5.2.6 (2022-08-12)
* xz:
- The --keep option now accepts symlinks, hardlinks, and
setuid, setgid, and sticky files. Previously this required
using --force.
- When copying metadata from the source file to the destination
file, don't try to set the group (GID) if it is already set
correctly. This avoids a failure on OpenBSD (and possibly on
a few other OSes) where files may get created so that their
group doesn't belong to the user, and fchown(2) can fail even
if it needs to do nothing.
- Cap --memlimit-compress to 2000 MiB instead of 4020 MiB on
MIPS32 because on MIPS32 userspace processes are limited
to 2 GiB of address space.
* liblzma:
- Fixed a missing error-check in the threaded encoder. If a
small memory allocation fails, a .xz file with an invalid
Index field would be created. Decompressing such a file would
produce the correct output but result in an error at the end.
Thus this is a "mild" data corruption bug. Note that while
a failed memory allocation can trigger the bug, it cannot
cause invalid memory access.
- The decoder for .lzma files now supports files that have
uncompressed size stored in the header and still use the
end of payload marker (end of stream marker) at the end
of the LZMA stream. Such files are rare but, according to
the documentation in LZMA SDK, they are valid.
doc/lzma-file-format.txt was updated too.
- Improved 32-bit x86 assembly files:
* Support Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET)
* Use non-executable stack on FreeBSD.
- Visual Studio: Use non-standard _MSVC_LANG to detect C++
standard version in the lzma.h API header. It's used to
detect when "noexcept" can be used.
* xzgrep:
- Fixed arbitrary command injection via a malicious filename
(CVE-2022-1271, ZDI-CAN-16587). A standalone patch for
this was released to the public on 2022-04-07. A slight
robustness improvement has been made since then and, if
using GNU or *BSD grep, a new faster method is now used
that doesn't use the old sed-based construct at all. This
also fixes bad output with GNU grep >= 3.5 (2020-09-27)
when xzgrepping binary files.
This vulnerability was discovered by:
cleemy desu wayo working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative
- Fixed detection of corrupt .bz2 files.
- Improved error handling to fix exit status in some situations
and to fix handling of signals: in some situations a signal
didn't make xzgrep exit when it clearly should have. It's
possible that the signal handling still isn't quite perfect
but hopefully it's good enough.
- Documented exit statuses on the man page.
- xzegrep and xzfgrep now use "grep -E" and "grep -F" instead
of the deprecated egrep and fgrep commands.
- Fixed parsing of the options -E, -F, -G, -P, and -X. The
problem occurred when multiple options were specied in
a single argument, for example,
echo foo | xzgrep -Fe foo
treated foo as a filename because -Fe wasn't correctly
split into -F -e.
- Added zstd support.
* xzdiff/xzcmp:
- Fixed wrong exit status. Exit status could be 2 when the
correct value is 1.
- Documented on the man page that exit status of 2 is used
for decompression errors.
- Added zstd support.
* xzless:
- Fix less(1) version detection. It failed if the version number
from "less -V" contained a dot.
* Translations:
- Added new translations: Catalan, Croatian, Esperanto,
Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish,
and Ukrainian
- Updated the Brazilian Portuguese translation.
- Added French man page translation. This and the existing
German translation aren't complete anymore because the
English man pages got a few updates and the translators
weren't reached so that they could update their work.
* Build systems:
- Windows: Fix building of resource files when config.h isn't
used. CMake + Visual Studio can now build liblzma.dll.
- Various fixes to the CMake support. Building static or shared
liblzma should work fine in most cases. In contrast, building
the command line tools with CMake is still clearly incomplete
and experimental and should be used for testing only.
(From OE-Core rev: b2af2fd0dbb3edac0257adc4edfa9bcab4941f92)
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 7e3782f4d66973cb7ab922d4bbc6ef6241756ed2)
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Poky
Poky is an integration of various components to form a pre-packaged build system and development environment which is used as a development and validation tool by the Yocto Project. It features support for building customised embedded style device images and custom containers. There are reference demo images ranging from X11/GTK+ to Weston, commandline and more. The system supports cross-architecture application development using QEMU emulation and a standalone toolchain and SDK suitable for IDE integration.
Additional information on the specifics of hardware that Poky supports is available in README.hardware. Further hardware support can easily be added in the form of BSP layers which extend the systems capabilities in a modular way. Many layers are available and can be found through the layer index.
As an integration layer Poky consists of several upstream projects such as BitBake, OpenEmbedded-Core, Yocto documentation, the 'meta-yocto' layer which has configuration and hardware support components. These components are all part of the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded ecosystems.
The Yocto Project has extensive documentation about the system including a reference manual which can be found at https://docs.yoctoproject.org/
OpenEmbedded is the build architecture used by Poky and the Yocto project. For information about OpenEmbedded, see the OpenEmbedded website.
Contribution Guidelines
The project works using a mailing list patch submission process. Patches should be sent to the mailing list for the repository the components originate from (see below). Throughout the Yocto Project, the README files in the component in question should detail where to send patches, who the maintainers are and where bugs should be reported.
A guide to submitting patches to OpenEmbedded is available at:
https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/How_to_submit_a_patch_to_OpenEmbedded
There is good documentation on how to write/format patches at:
https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Commit_Patch_Message_Guidelines
Where to Send Patches
As Poky is an integration repository (built using a tool called combo-layer), patches against the various components should be sent to their respective upstreams:
OpenEmbedded-Core (files in meta/, meta-selftest/, meta-skeleton/, scripts/):
- Git repository: https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/
- Mailing list: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
BitBake (files in bitbake/):
- Git repository: https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/
- Mailing list: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Documentation (files in documentation/):
- Git repository: https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/yocto-docs/
- Mailing list: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org
meta-yocto (files in meta-poky/, meta-yocto-bsp/):
- Git repository: https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-yocto
- Mailing list: poky@lists.yoctoproject.org
If in doubt, check the openembedded-core git repository for the content you intend to modify as most files are from there unless clearly one of the above categories. Before sending, be sure the patches apply cleanly to the current git repository branch in question.