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sched/semaphore: Keep a negative task id out of the mutex holder.
A mutex records its holder as a task id in the low 31 bits of a word
whose top bit means "someone is blocked on this".  The id was stored
without masking, so an id with its top bit set became a holder with the
blocking bit raised.

Task ids are normally small and positive, but not always.
nxsched_gettid() reports -ESRCH for a context that no longer maps to a
running task, and there is a window where that is exactly what the
running context is: nxtask_exit() marks the next task ready to run
while the dying task is still executing on its own stack, and only then
releases the TCB.  Freeing the group inside that release takes and
drops the group's mutexes, so the lock stores 0xfffffffd and the unlock
compares 0x7ffffffd, which are not equal.

With assertions enabled the unlock trips its holder check, and every
exit of a process that frees memory panics.  In a kernel build that is
every exit, so no program could be run twice, and running one at all
took the shell down with it.  Without assertions the failure is silent:
the accidental blocking bit sends the unlock looking for a waiter that
never existed.

Encode the id the same way everywhere it is stored or compared, so that
a lock and an unlock from one context agree whatever the id's sign.
The masked forms of -1 and -2 would alias the "no holder" and "reset"
values, but nxsched_gettid() yields only valid ids and -ESRCH.

mm_lock() already sidesteps this window with a note that gettid() may
return -ESRCH during a context switch; this gives the generic mutex the
same footing rather than a second special case.

Test case, on the EIC7700 EVB, which is a kernel build with assertions:

  nsh> hello
  Hello, World!!

Before, that printed and then panicked in sem_post, taking the shell
with it, every time.  After, five runs in a row complete and the shell
survives.  ps over telnet still completes.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Justin Hammond <justin@dynam.ac>
2026-08-09 10:05:30 +08:00
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android
arpa
crypto crypto: add CRYPTO_AES_CTR_SSH variant (128-bit big-endian counter) 2026-07-16 15:42:10 +08:00
cxx include/cxx/ctime: Add localtime to std namespace. 2026-06-09 11:33:40 -03:00
net forward: Add IFF_NOSRC_FORWARD and IFF_NODST_FORWARD flags. 2026-01-31 02:37:58 +08:00
netinet netinet/in.h: Rename imr_interface to imr_address in struct ip_mreqn. 2026-01-16 09:42:12 +08:00
netpacket net/packet: add PACKET_<ADD|DROP>_MEMBERSHIP support 2025-12-25 10:01:43 +08:00
nuttx sched/semaphore: Keep a negative task id out of the mutex holder. 2026-08-09 10:05:30 +08:00
ssp
sys syscall: add missing memory locking and clock_getres entries 2026-08-08 18:19:27 +08:00
.gitignore ci: add stdbit.h test 2026-06-29 14:44:17 +02:00
aio.h
alloca.h
assert.h
byteswap.h
ctype.h
debug.h style: fix checkpatch issues after debug.h move 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
dirent.h fs/dirent: add d_ino member to struct dirent 2026-06-26 10:45:33 -04:00
dlfcn.h
dsp.h libs/libdsp: Add Matrix operations 2026-07-11 14:55:59 -03:00
dspb16.h style: fix spelling in code comments and strings 2025-05-23 10:48:41 +08:00
elf.h arch:use ARCH_64BIT to mark arch is support 64bit 2025-12-18 22:05:12 +08:00
elf32.h
elf64.h
endian.h
err.h
errno.h include/errno.h: skip set_errno in interrupt context 2026-05-03 17:23:40 -03:00
execinfo.h
fcntl.h !include/fcntl.h: align open flags with Linux values 2026-06-30 13:43:44 +08:00
fixedmath.h !compiler: drop CONFIG_HAVE_LONG_LONG and require long long support 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
fnmatch.h
ftw.h
gcov.h gcov: Refactoring the implementation framework of gcov 2025-07-03 00:17:58 +08:00
getopt.h
glob.h
grp.h libc/grp: add getgrouplist() 2026-06-23 23:09:22 +08:00
hex2bin.h
iconv.h
ifaddrs.h
imx_container.h arch/arm64/imx9: Add ROMAPI and AHAB support for i.MX9 2025-05-09 19:21:17 +08:00
inttypes.h !sched/clock: remove CONFIG_SYSTEM_TIME64 and always use 64-bit time 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
iso646.h
langinfo.h
libgen.h
libintl.h
limits.h !sys/types.h: change time_t and clock_t to int64_t to align with other OSes 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
locale.h style/FAR: remove FAR qualifier 2025-11-10 10:56:29 +01:00
lzf.h lzf: prevent lzf header struct optimization 2026-02-13 11:58:50 +01:00
malloc.h
mqueue.h [POSIX][Bug] mqueue.h: Include file does not conform the standard 2024-12-09 21:21:09 +08:00
netdb.h
nl_types.h
nxflat.h !arch/arm: Use r9 as the PIC base register. 2026-08-06 01:38:23 +08:00
obstack.h libs/libc/obstack: fix allocated chunk overrun due to invalid limit 2024-10-30 11:53:18 -03:00
poll.h
pthread.h include/pthread : initialize wait_count in PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER 2026-06-16 19:12:30 -03:00
pty.h
pwd.h
regex.h
resolv.h
sched.h sched: remove csection and reduce the interrupt disabling time in sched_[un]lock 2025-01-23 19:58:49 +08:00
search.h LICENSE: update NuttX-PublicDomain SPDX identifier 2025-12-26 19:46:12 +08:00
semaphore.h sched/semaphore: add support to customize semaphore max allowed value 2025-09-04 09:48:34 +08:00
shadow.h
signal.h sched/timer: Fix MISRA Rule 10.4 2026-01-22 22:14:00 +08:00
spawn.h sched/spawn: Fix MISRA C 2012 Rule 10.4 violations 2026-02-02 20:39:36 +08:00
stdbool.h
stddef.h !compiler: drop CONFIG_HAVE_LONG_LONG and require long long support 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
stdint.h arm64_head.S: fix the asm code build error 2026-01-13 21:20:52 +08:00
stdio.h stdio.h: Update TMP_MAX definition to match Linux. 2026-01-14 17:28:30 -08:00
stdlib.h fs/binfmt: close symlink TOCTOU and harden setuid/setgid exec hygiene 2026-08-01 15:32:03 -03:00
stdnoreturn.h
string.h include/string.h: mark memset and memcpy as used_code 2026-02-12 13:19:06 -05:00
strings.h !compiler: drop CONFIG_HAVE_LONG_LONG and require long long support 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
syscall.h
syslog.h drivers/syslog: Add RFC 5424 protocol support 2025-06-13 20:26:57 +08:00
termios.h include: modify for support socat, so need add some macro same as linux 2025-12-10 23:44:14 +08:00
threads.h include/threads.h: Replace thrd_ defines by actual function definitions 2024-12-19 21:56:02 +08:00
time.h
ulimit.h ulimit: add ulimit implementation 2026-01-16 10:03:53 +08:00
unistd.h sched/group: add getresuid, getresgid, setreuid, and setregid 2026-07-30 09:48:10 +08:00
utime.h
uuid.h
wait.h wait: add wait.h header file 2024-12-20 11:46:14 -03:00
wchar.h fix misspelled names in locally scoped code 2025-05-15 10:12:12 +08:00
wctype.h