When looking at how dlopen for various libs is implemented, I found that the
macros hide too much. I find it much easier to see what is going on if 'extern'
and '= NULL' are written explicitly. After all, we don't hide those for other
definitions, e.g. our style guide says that static variables should be
initialized with '= NULL'. With that change, it's much more obvious what is
a variable declaration and what is a variable initialization.
gcrypt is used only for journal sealing operations in libsystemd, so it
can be made into a dlopen dependency that is used only on demand. This
allows to reduce the footprint of libsystemd in the most common cases.
Keep systemd-pull and systemd-resolved with normal linking, as they are
executables, and usually built with OpenSSL support anyway.
This allows resolved and importd to be built without libgcrypt.
Note that we now say either 'cryptographic library' or 'cryptolib'.
Co-authored-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
If the cleanup function returns the appropriate type, use that to reset the
variable. For other functions (usually the foreign ones which return void), add
an explicit value to reset to.
This causes a bit of code churn, but I think it might be worth it. In a
following patch static destructors will be called from a fuzzer, and this
change allows them to be called multiple times. But I think such a change might
help with detecting unitialized code reuse too. We hit various bugs like this,
and things are more obvious when a pointer has been set to NULL.
I was worried whether this change increases text size, but it doesn't seem to:
-Dbuildtype=debug:
before "tree-wide: return NULL from freeing functions":
-rwxrwxr-x 1 zbyszek zbyszek 4117672 Feb 16 14:36 build/libsystemd.so.0.30.0*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 zbyszek zbyszek 4494520 Feb 16 15:06 build/systemd*
after "tree-wide: return NULL from freeing functions":
-rwxrwxr-x 1 zbyszek zbyszek 4117672 Feb 16 14:36 build/libsystemd.so.0.30.0*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 zbyszek zbyszek 4494576 Feb 16 15:10 build/systemd*
now:
-rwxrwxr-x 1 zbyszek zbyszek 4117672 Feb 16 14:36 build/libsystemd.so.0.30.0*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 zbyszek zbyszek 4494640 Feb 16 15:15 build/systemd*
-Dbuildtype=release:
before "tree-wide: return NULL from freeing functions":
-rwxrwxr-x 1 zbyszek zbyszek 5252256 Feb 14 14:47 build-rawhide/libsystemd.so.0.30.0*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 zbyszek zbyszek 1834184 Feb 16 15:09 build-rawhide/systemd*
after "tree-wide: return NULL from freeing functions":
-rwxrwxr-x 1 zbyszek zbyszek 5252256 Feb 14 14:47 build-rawhide/libsystemd.so.0.30.0*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 zbyszek zbyszek 1834184 Feb 16 15:10 build-rawhide/systemd*
now:
-rwxrwxr-x 1 zbyszek zbyszek 5252256 Feb 14 14:47 build-rawhide/libsystemd.so.0.30.0*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 zbyszek zbyszek 1834184 Feb 16 15:16 build-rawhide/systemd*
I would expect that the compiler would be able to elide the setting of a
variable if the variable is never used again. And this seems to be the case:
in optimized builds there is no change in size whatsoever. And the change in
size in unoptimized build is negligible.
Something strange is happening with size of libsystemd: it's bigger in
optimized builds. Something to figure out, but unrelated to this patch.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
We were including gcrypt-util.[ch] by hand in the few places where it
was used. Create a convenience library to avoid compiling the same
files multiple times.
v2:
- use a separate static library instead of mergin into libbasic
