- Kernel sf_realloc() is a real realloc (copy min(old,new) via new
kmalloc_usable_size(), free old, NULL-on-0 frees). It allocated fresh
and nothing else: every growth leaked, and vm_state_push()'s call-state
stack lost every saved state past depth 8 (found here).
- Shim realloc() copies min(old,new) (over-read when growing).
- Defect 9: FC bucket growth no longer leaks or patches a copy; no
sf_xrealloc() (freed a block the index still held on failure).
- Defect 5: heat snapshot heap-sized (was heats[1024], truncating).
- Defect 6: word refused whole when its metrics can't be allocated.
- Defect 7: vm_cleanup() (both) frees metrics' inner arrays.
- Defect 8: most-likely-next kept incrementally; no full id scan.
- Probe (removed): realloc keeps contents, heap returns exactly; call
stack depth 20 intact; all three ISAs. Churn criterion NOT met: ~7 KB
retained per churned VM (quota slots/word rows -- K-4 re-measures); a
post-churn CONSOLE-CMD refusal attributed to the quota leak, K-4 retests.
- Standard sequence on amd64/aarch64/riscv64: hashes, G, ledger unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Root-caused a heap-corruption bug that reliably failed WIREBIND identity
attach on the third attach/detach cycle in one boot. sk_console_readline()
and sk_console_getkey() captured `active_vm` once from their caller and
kept passing that same (possibly long-stale) pointer to sk_repl_idle() on
every idle tick serviced while blocked waiting for input. If the VM it
pointed at was killed (WIREBIND detach) mid-block, the existing bailout
only checked a generic "is anyone attached" boolean -- masked as soon as a
different identity attached next -- so blk_vm_flush_all() kept writing
into a freed VM struct sitting on kmalloc's own free list, corrupting the
free list's linked-list metadata itself.
Both idle branches now re-resolve the live active VM fresh from
g_repl_active_vm on every tick, matching the dispatch-side fix already
made for the sibling bug in §XII.3.
Verified: rebuilt amd64, reran the exact three-cycle repro that reliably
corrupted the heap before the fix -- free-list census stayed stable
through the same idle window that previously collapsed to zero. All three
architectures (amd64/aarch64/riscv64) boot clean to the zuse)ok> prompt.
kmalloc_debug_census()/kmalloc_debug_census_bytes() kept as permanent
diagnostic infrastructure; every other temporary probe added during the
investigation was reverted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EXieurDfDSsDFdnSyusuWo