nuttx/arch
Marco Casaroli e499b9f174 arch/arm: carry CONTROL over to the fork child on Cortex-M
In a protected build arm_svcall.c treats the caller's CONTROL as part of
the saved system call state: it stores it in xcp.syscall[].ctrlreturn on
entry and restores it from there on SYS_syscall_return.  All three
Cortex-M profiles do this -- armv6-m, armv7-m and armv8-m each define the
field in arch/arm/include/<arch>/irq.h and use it symmetrically.

arm_fork_direct() copied sysreturn and excreturn to the child but not
ctrlreturn.  The child's TCB comes from kmm_zalloc(), so the field was
zero, and CONTROL == 0 is nPRIV clear: the child returned to user space
privileged while its parent returned unprivileged.  The child ran out its
life with the MPU restrictions its parent is under silently lifted, which
is the isolation BUILD_PROTECTED exists to provide.

Nothing faults, and that is why this survived.  CONTROL == 0 also selects
MSP, which sounds like it should crash immediately, but NuttX already
runs Cortex-M threads on MSP -- the parent's saved value is 0x1, nPRIV
set and SPSEL clear -- so the two differ only in the privilege bit and
there is no stack change to trip over.  Privileged code then passes every
test unprivileged code passes, so ostest cannot see it either.

Measured on an RP2350 (Cortex-M33) in BUILD_PROTECTED, breaking at the
nxtask_start_fork() call in arm_fork_direct() during task_fork_test:
parent ctrlreturn 0x00000001, child ctrlreturn 0x00000000.  With this
change both read 0x00000001.

BUILD_FLAT is unaffected: without CONFIG_LIB_SYSCALL, nsyscalls is 0 and
the whole block is skipped.  armv7-a and armv7-r are unaffected too; they
carry cpsr instead, and that is already copied.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Casaroli <marco.casaroli@gmail.com>
2026-07-28 20:30:51 +08:00
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arm arch/arm: carry CONTROL over to the fork child on Cortex-M 2026-07-28 20:30:51 +08:00
arm64 arm64/bcm2711/pwm: Fix PWM defconfigs 2026-07-28 02:46:42 +08:00
avr arch/avr/src/avrdx/avrdx_delay: add custom up_udelay function 2026-06-12 09:55:11 -04:00
ceva arch/ceva: Replace board_app_initialize 2026-05-02 18:36:46 +08:00
dummy
hc style: fix checkpatch issues after debug.h move 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
mips arch/mips/jz4780: Add USB host and display controller drivers 2026-07-24 12:17:35 +08:00
misoc include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
or1k include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
renesas drivers/efuse/efuse: Drivers Registered With World Write Permissions(Part 1) 2026-07-13 12:08:01 +02:00
risc-v arch/risc-v: fix up_backtrace() bugs and rework stack splicing 2026-07-27 09:30:10 -03:00
sim arch/sim: register RTC after clock initialization 2026-07-28 09:49:58 +02:00
sparc drivers: Fix comment typos — 'Pubic' → 'Public' across drivers and headers. 2026-07-02 13:29:48 +08:00
tricore arch/tricore: nxstyle fix Relative files path 2026-07-27 09:44:30 +08:00
x86 arch/x86: default CROSSDEV on a macOS host 2026-07-28 12:38:02 +02:00
x86_64 arch/x86_64: do not wrap the HPET oneshot on a deadline that has passed. 2026-07-27 18:24:47 -03:00
xtensa fs/hostfs: Return ENOTTY for unsupported ioctl 2026-07-23 08:30:29 +02:00
z16 include/debug.h: Move to include/nuttx/debug.h 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
z80 style: fix checkpatch issues after debug.h move 2026-04-07 07:50:06 -03:00
CMakeLists.txt arch/z80: migrate to SPDX identifier 2024-12-02 17:23:25 +08:00
Kconfig arch/x86_64: define the missing CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_SYSCALL. 2026-07-27 18:24:47 -03:00