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Justin Hammond 31fbb99218
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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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aio include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
assert lib_stackchk.c: a duplicate implementation error reported during compilation 2026-02-02 13:22:07 +08:00
audio include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
builtin libc/builtin: support per-application priority/stacksize under KERNEL build. 2026-07-13 15:23:39 -03:00
ctype style: fix spelling in code comments and strings 2025-05-23 10:48:41 +08:00
dirent libs/libc/dirent: preserve errno on readdir() end-of-directory 2026-06-02 23:34:25 +08:00
dlfcn libc/dlfcn: Count opens so a library can be shared. 2026-08-04 11:12:49 -03:00
elf libc/dlfcn: Count opens so a library can be shared. 2026-08-04 11:12:49 -03:00
errno libs/libc: migrate to SPDX identifier 2024-10-01 12:25:52 +08:00
eventfd libs/libc: migrate to SPDX identifier 2024-10-01 12:25:52 +08:00
fdt libs/libc/fdt/Make.defs: cannot move due to directory not empty bugfix 2024-10-09 15:42:17 +08:00
fixedmath !compiler: drop CONFIG_HAVE_LONG_LONG and require long long support 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
gdbstub arch/arm64: fix backtrace register access and gdbstub config guard 2026-01-16 08:55:47 -03:00
gnssutils libc: remove reference to non-existent readme 2025-10-11 17:07:51 -04:00
grp libc/grp: add getgrouplist() 2026-06-23 23:09:22 +08:00
hex2bin include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
inttypes !compiler: drop CONFIG_HAVE_LONG_LONG and require long long support 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
libgen libs/libc: migrate to SPDX identifier 2024-10-01 12:25:52 +08:00
locale style/FAR: remove FAR qualifier 2025-11-10 10:56:29 +01:00
lzf !compiler: drop CONFIG_HAVE_LONG_LONG and require long long support 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
machine arch/tricore: Full implementation of setjmp and longjmp. 2026-05-22 00:38:02 +08:00
misc libc/crc32: add IEEE-compatible crc32_ieee for Linux/zlib interop 2026-07-03 10:18:28 +08:00
net include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
netdb libs/libc/netdb: Size an answer header by its header, not by its union. 2026-08-08 15:02:15 -03:00
obstack include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
pthread arch, sched/signal: Fix compilation with ENABLE_PARTIAL_SIGNALS=y 2026-06-16 17:07:32 +08:00
pwd libc/pwd: default ostest multiuser passwd path to /tmp/ostest_passwd 2026-07-30 09:48:10 +08:00
queue libs/libc: migrate to SPDX identifier 2024-10-01 12:25:52 +08:00
regex libs/libc/regex: remove logically dead code in regcomp.c 2026-01-24 19:28:56 +08:00
sched include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
search libc/search: add foreach api for hcreate_data 2025-12-25 09:39:03 +08:00
semaphore sched/semaphore: Keep a negative task id out of the mutex holder. 2026-08-09 10:05:30 +08:00
signal sched/signal: Add support for disabling all signal functions 2026-01-18 08:24:13 -03:00
spawn spawn: allow zero stacksize/priority to use binary loader defaults 2026-07-15 12:24:44 -03:00
stdio !include/fcntl.h: align open flags with Linux values 2026-06-30 13:43:44 +08:00
stdlib libs/libc: support explicit bases up to 36 2026-08-01 20:08:32 +08:00
stream libc/stream: Check lowout bounds before access 2026-07-06 09:02:22 +02:00
string !compiler: drop CONFIG_HAVE_LONG_LONG and require long long support 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
symtab libs/libc/symtab: fix bogus symbol size under SYMTAB_ORDEREDBYNAME 2026-08-05 21:51:25 +08:00
syslog drivers/syslog: Add RFC 5424 protocol support 2025-06-13 20:26:57 +08:00
termios drivers/serial: add job-control TTY ioctls and libc wrappers 2026-06-23 16:26:53 -03:00
time libc/time: Fix POSIX timezone string parsing. 2026-07-25 19:54:18 +08:00
tls libc/tls: update preprocessor condition comment to match implementation 2026-01-31 02:49:10 +08:00
uio move readv/writev to the kernel 2024-10-30 17:07:54 +08:00
unistd fs/binfmt: close symlink TOCTOU and harden setuid/setgid exec hygiene 2026-08-01 15:32:03 -03:00
userfs include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
uuid libc: Refine the arc4random_buf implementation 2024-10-26 18:04:21 -03:00
wchar style: fix spelling in code comments and strings 2025-05-23 10:48:41 +08:00
wctype libs/libc: migrate to SPDX identifier 2024-10-01 12:25:52 +08:00
wqueue !sched/clock: remove CONFIG_SYSTEM_TIME64 and always use 64-bit time 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
zoneinfo tools: fix stale archive members surviving a Kconfig-driven CSRCS change 2026-07-28 21:26:03 -03:00
.gitignore libc/elf: rename modlib to libelf 2025-04-11 09:43:22 +08:00
CMakeLists.txt libs/libc: migrate to SPDX identifier 2024-10-01 12:25:52 +08:00
Kconfig libc/elf: rename modlib to libelf 2025-04-11 09:43:22 +08:00
libc.csv !compiler: drop CONFIG_HAVE_LONG_LONG and require long long support 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
libc.h libc/machine:Add prefixes to libc functions implemented by arch 2024-10-31 18:11:16 +08:00
limits_check.c libs/libc: add limits checks 2026-07-02 09:02:21 -03:00
Makefile tools: fix stale archive members surviving a Kconfig-driven CSRCS change 2026-07-28 21:26:03 -03:00