nuttx/libs/libc
Marco Casaroli 43694933ce libc, sched: Resolve FDPIC descriptors at module callback entry points.
The base firmware and an FDPIC module disagree about what a function
pointer is.  Firmware is not built FDPIC, so to it a pointer is a code
address and it branches there.  A module passes the address of a two word
descriptor instead, because its code and data are placed independently and
a bare code address would leave the callee unable to find its own data.  A
firmware routine that takes a callback therefore branches into the
module's data segment and faults.

So the ten entry points that can be handed a callback by a module resolve
the descriptor before storing or branching to it: qsort, bsearch,
pthread_create, signal, sigaction, task_create and task_create_with_stack,
task_spawn, pthread_once, scandir, and mq_notify and timer_create with
SIGEV_THREAD.

Which one resolves matters as much as that one does.  Resolving twice would
take an already resolved code address for a descriptor and read two words
from the instruction stream, so each pointer is resolved exactly once, at
the outermost point that sees it.  signal() passes its argument through
untouched because sigaction() and then nxsig_action() will resolve it,
which covers a module calling sigaction() directly as well.  qsort() is
split so that the public entry resolves and the recursive implementation
does not.  scandir() resolves its filter but not its comparison function,
which it hands to qsort().

Whether a caller is a module at all is asked of the PIC base register,
which up_initial_state() sets only for a task that has a D-Space.  A plain
kernel task therefore reads zero and is left alone.

SIGEV_THREAD is the case the register cannot answer, because the callback
runs later on a work queue worker that carries no module's base at all.
The base is captured instead when the notification is registered, in the
module's own context, and installed around the call.

All of it is behind CONFIG_FDPIC, which defaults off.  Built for
mps3-an547:picostest both ways; with it off the entry points compile to
what they were.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Casaroli <marco.casaroli@gmail.com>
2026-09-25 10:46:48 -03:00
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aio libc/aio: loop in aio_suspend() until a listed request completes 2026-09-14 17:12:49 -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
dirent libc, sched: Resolve FDPIC descriptors at module callback entry points. 2026-09-25 10:46:48 -03:00
dlfcn libc/dlfcn: Count opens so a library can be shared. 2026-08-04 11:12:49 -03:00
elf libc/elf: Always free the module symbol table on removal. 2026-09-22 13:29:57 +08:00
errno
eventfd
fdt cmake: Use NUTTX(_DIR/_BIN_DIR) instead CMAKE(_SRC_DIR/_BIN_DIR) 2026-08-09 11:13:08 -03:00
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 cmake: Use NUTTX(_DIR/_BIN_DIR) instead CMAKE(_SRC_DIR/_BIN_DIR) 2026-08-09 11:13:08 -03:00
grp libs/libc/grp: fix getgrbuf_r() pointer-alignment padding 2026-08-14 10:20:52 +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
locale
lzf !compiler: drop CONFIG_HAVE_LONG_LONG and require long long support 2026-05-19 16:21:28 +08:00
machine libs/libc/machine/arm: Relocate FDPIC function descriptors. 2026-09-13 16:03:32 -03:00
misc sched/semaphore: Correct the return value comment of nxsem_init/nxmutex_init 2026-09-25 10:37:43 +02:00
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 libc, sched: Resolve FDPIC descriptors at module callback entry points. 2026-09-25 10:46:48 -03:00
pwd sched: add supplementary group IDs (setgroups/getgroups/initgroups) 2026-08-12 16:06:03 -03:00
queue
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: Correct the return value comment of nxsem_init/nxmutex_init 2026-09-25 10:37:43 +02:00
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 libc/stdio: allocate a buffer in getdelim() when *lineptr is NULL 2026-09-23 12:52:09 +08:00
stdlib libc, sched: Resolve FDPIC descriptors at module callback entry points. 2026-09-25 10:46:48 -03:00
stream libc/stream: Check lowout bounds before access 2026-07-06 09:02:22 +02:00
string libs/libc/string: Copy and compare by words when pointers agree on alignment. 2026-08-24 12:02:02 +08:00
symtab libs/libc/symtab: fix bogus symbol size under SYMTAB_ORDEREDBYNAME 2026-08-05 21:51:25 +08:00
syslog
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
unistd fs/aio: add configurable AIO_LISTIO_MAX limit 2026-09-14 17:12:49 -03:00
userfs include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
uuid
wchar
wctype
wqueue libc/wqueue: use the uninterruptible wait helper 2026-09-04 23:02:48 +08:00
zoneinfo tools: fix stale archive members surviving a Kconfig-driven CSRCS change 2026-07-28 21:26:03 -03:00
.gitignore
CMakeLists.txt
Kconfig
libc.csv sched/pthread: Implement pthread_sigqueue 2026-09-21 14:53:26 +08:00
libc.h libs/libc/string: Copy and compare by words when pointers agree on alignment. 2026-08-24 12:02:02 +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