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Marco Casaroli 25b1fcd209 sched/addrenv: do not dereference a NULL address environment
A task does not necessarily own an address environment.  tcb->addrenv_own is
set only by addrenv_attach(), which is reached only from addrenv_allocate();
a kernel thread never allocates one, and in a protected build nothing does --
there is a single address space for the whole system and the architecture's
up_addrenv_*() are stubs.  addrenv_own is then NULL for every task, always.

That a task may have no address environment is already an expected state.
addrenv_switch() returns OK when tcb->addrenv_curr is NULL and addrenv_drop()
returns early, and every caller of addrenv_select() checks addrenv_own != NULL
before calling in:  nxsched_get_stateinfo(), nxtask_argvstr(), proc_groupenv()
and the arm, arm64, risc-v and tricore up_check_tcbstack().

addrenv_take() and addrenv_give() are the only two that dereference
unconditionally.  addrenv_join() calls addrenv_take(ptcb->addrenv_own) without
a check, so pthread_create() faults on &((struct addrenv_s *)NULL)->refs
whenever the calling task has no address environment.  With
CONFIG_DEBUG_ASSERTIONS off the same access silently corrupts low memory
instead.

Handle NULL in both, the way the rest of the file already does.
addrenv_give() returns a non-zero count for the NULL case so that callers
never conclude an absent address environment has become unreferenced and
should be destroyed.

Signed-off-by: Marco Casaroli <marco.casaroli@gmail.com>

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 23:15:29 +08:00
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