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Marco Casaroli d4f523e9f3 drivers/syslog: fix syslog_write() returning -EIO on every write
syslog_write_foreach() compares an unsigned count against a signed
accumulator:

  size_t  nwritten     = 0;
  ssize_t nwritten_max = -EIO;
  ...
  if (nwritten > nwritten_max)
    {
      nwritten_max = nwritten;
    }
  return nwritten_max;

The usual arithmetic conversions promote nwritten_max to size_t, so -EIO
becomes 4294967291 on a 32-bit target, and the comparison is never true.
nwritten_max keeps its initial value and the function returns -EIO no
matter how many bytes actually went out.  Observed under gdb on a running
target: nwritten == 64, nwritten_max == -5, (nwritten > nwritten_max) == 0.

Most callers discard the result -- syslog() itself returns void -- so this
is normally invisible.  It becomes fatal when /dev/console is backed by
syslog_console_write(), because then stdio acts on it.
lib_fflush_unlocked() sees a negative return, sets __FS_FLAG_ERROR and
returns early, before resetting fs_bufpos.  The bytes have already been
emitted, but the buffer is never cleared, so every subsequent stdio call
re-flushes the same CONFIG_STDIO_BUFFER_SIZE bytes.  The console fills
with one repeated fragment and the system makes no further progress.

Reaching that state needs CONFIG_CONSOLE_SYSLOG=y together with no driver
claiming /dev/console ahead of syslog_console_init().  Three in-tree
defconfigs qualify: x86/qemu-i486:ostest, renesas/skp16c26:ostest and
x86_64/qemu-intel64:earlyfb.  The other 56 CONSOLE_SYSLOG configurations
have a serial console that registers /dev/console first, which is why this
has gone unnoticed.

Introduced by 1685e8ff7b ("syslog: avoid an infinite loop if one channel
fails"), which changed nwritten_max from size_t to ssize_t = -EIO so that
an all-channels-failed case could be reported.  Give nwritten the same type
so the comparison is signed, which preserves that intent: nwritten_max
stays -EIO only when no channel wrote anything.  nwritten is never negative,
so the remaining comparisons against buflen are unaffected.

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

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 00:36:09 +08:00
.github !arch/stm32: move stm32l1 and finalize the directory split 2026-07-03 10:27:27 +08:00
arch arch/arm: carry CONTROL over to the fork child on Cortex-M 2026-08-04 00:35:32 +08:00
audio drivers/efuse/efuse: Drivers Registered With World Write Permissions(Part 1) 2026-08-03 17:23:22 +08:00
binfmt fs/binfmt: Enforce POSIX execute permissions prior to binary load 2026-06-17 17:11:07 +08:00
boards boards/mps2-an521: Correct the swapped UART0 TX and RX interrupts. 2026-08-03 23:17:11 +08:00
cmake cmake: Sanitize NAME for _main symbol generation 2026-08-03 20:59:22 +08:00
crypto drivers/efuse/efuse: Drivers Registered With World Write Permissions(Part 1) 2026-08-03 17:23:22 +08:00
Documentation docs/raspberrypi-4b: Documentation about the SD card updated 2026-08-03 20:57:47 +08:00
drivers drivers/syslog: fix syslog_write() returning -EIO on every write 2026-08-04 00:36:09 +08:00
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fs drivers/eeprom: I2C EEPROM Read/Write Kernel Operations Cause a Device Crash 2026-08-03 21:00:39 +08:00
graphics drivers/: Multiple Drivers Are Registered With World Writable - Part 2 2026-08-03 17:23:22 +08:00
include lib/math32: Avoid __uint128_t casts for LDC ImportC 2026-08-03 22:20:43 +08:00
libs libs/libbuiltin/compiler-rt: skip unsupported Arm VFP builtins asm 2026-08-03 23:18:05 +08:00
mm mm/gran: reject pools with too many granules 2026-07-03 10:32:15 +08:00
net net/tcp: don't accept a reset connection as connected (fixes send hang) 2026-08-04 00:35:39 +08:00
openamp openamp: fix CMake dcache option 2026-05-10 15:03:24 +02:00
pass1 Makefile: Remove make depend files by make distclean 2026-02-16 16:27:57 +01:00
sched sched/sched_critmonitor: remove duplicate preemption start block 2026-08-04 00:35:18 +08:00
syscall syscall: fcntl param3 type to uintptr_t 2026-04-27 12:01:55 -03:00
tools tools/mkallsyms.py: let the dependency error actually reach the user 2026-08-04 00:36:00 +08:00
video video: fix EDID standard timing decode 2026-08-03 20:59:41 +08:00
wireless drivers/: Multiple Drivers Are Registered With World Writable - Part 2 2026-08-03 17:23:22 +08:00
.asf.yaml github: master branch protection tune. 2025-05-07 18:37:13 -05:00
.codespell-ignore-lines !boards: Remove NSH_ARCHINIT and board_app_initialize 2026-05-02 18:36:46 +08:00
.codespellrc arch/sim: replace macOS C++ constructor runtime hack with post-link patch 2026-05-19 07:08:55 -03:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: fix character encoding property specification 2025-11-28 19:12:13 +08:00
.gitignore git: Specify multiple build directories in .gitignore. 2026-05-20 03:06:58 +08:00
.gitmessage docs/contributing: Add a commit message template 2025-06-03 17:33:24 +08:00
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AUTHORS AUTHORS: add Eren Terzioglu 2026-05-20 15:17:00 +08:00
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LICENSE !arch/stm32: move stm32l1 and finalize the directory split 2026-07-03 10:27:27 +08:00
Makefile !boards: enforce secure ROMFS passwd and TEA key setup 2026-07-06 12:04:07 -03:00
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Apache NuttX is a real-time operating system (RTOS) with an emphasis on standards compliance and small footprint. Scalable from 8-bit to 64-bit microcontroller environments, the primary governing standards in NuttX are POSIX and ANSI standards. Additional standard APIs from Unix and other common RTOSs (such as VxWorks) are adopted for functionality not available under these standards, or for functionality that is not appropriate for deeply-embedded environments (such as fork()).

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