implement 47 bit pointer caging - #77
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 3 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe engine adds a cage allocator and shared tagged-value helpers. Heap pointers now use cage-relative references or handles. GC, runtime, compiler, JIT, modules, native metadata, and tests adopt the new representation. ChangesPointer compression migration
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to This change can cause reachable process aborts, NULL-path crashes, and crashes or memory corruption during on-stack replacement; concurrent access to cage state also introduces undefined behavior. The PR is not merge-ready until these correctness and stability risks are addressed. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant JavaScriptRuntime
participant ValueHelpers
participant CageAllocator
participant HandleRegistry
participant GarbageCollector
participant SilverJIT
JavaScriptRuntime->>ValueHelpers: create tagged heap reference
ValueHelpers->>CageAllocator: encode cage-relative pointer
JavaScriptRuntime->>HandleRegistry: register native metadata or external pointer
GarbageCollector->>ValueHelpers: decode tagged heap reference
SilverJIT->>ValueHelpers: decode reference during execution
ValueHelpers-->>SilverJIT: return native pointer
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In `@include/value.h`:
- Around line 122-132: Update vptr and vptr_masked to decode through the
null-preserving cage helper so zero payloads return NULL rather than the cage
base address; update vptr_tagged to reuse vptr instead of duplicating its
masking logic. Preserve existing nonzero pointer decoding and NULL-guard
behavior for callers such as js_obj_ptr and ant_str_flat_ptr.
In `@src/ant.c`:
- Around line 3541-3544: Update set_func_code_ptr and its callers so SLOT_CODE
never encodes a non-cage pointer through mkref(T_NTARG, code). Ensure the
literal passed by build_dynamic_function is copied into cage-backed storage or
represented by a valid handle, and verify that set_func_code’s code_arena_alloc
result is cage-resident before retaining the existing path.
In `@src/cage.c`:
- Around line 15-16: Declare ant_cage_base_address and ant_cage_reserved_size as
atomic objects, use release stores when publishing them in
cage_initialize_locked, and update ant_cage_contains, ant_cage_encode, and
ant_cage_decode to use acquire loads. Preserve the ordering so readers observe
the initialized base and reserved size consistently.
In `@src/handles.c`:
- Around line 134-159: Document in include/handles.h, alongside
ant_cfunc_handle_intern, that the supplied meta pointer must reference static or
otherwise stable storage for the lifetime of the handle registry; keep the
existing pointer-identity interning behavior unchanged.
- Around line 207-240: Add release APIs for external and C-function handles in
handles.c, declare them in include/handles.h, and recycle released handle IDs
via a free list while preserving registry consistency. In src/ant.c lines
509-515, release the handle returned by ant_external_handle_intern when the
typed-array data is freed. In src/ant.c lines 19049-19084, release handles
created by ant_cfunc_handle_create during isolate teardown, or deduplicate
exposures by meta contents so repeated exposures reuse one handle.
In `@src/silver/swarm.c`:
- Around line 11730-11749: Zero-initialize the newly allocated closure in the
non-T_FUNC branch before assigning its fields, or explicitly initialize every
remaining field, including call_flags, bound_argc, func_obj, u.pending, and
in_remember_set. Follow the complete initialization pattern used by the fake
closure in the calls implementation, ensuring the closure is fully initialized
before it is rooted or otherwise reachable.
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| static inline void *vptr(ant_value_t value) { | ||
| return ant_cage_decode_nonnull(vdata(value)); | ||
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| static inline void *vptr_masked(ant_value_t value, uint64_t tag_mask) { | ||
| return ant_cage_decode_nonnull(vdata(value) & ~tag_mask); | ||
| } | ||
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| static inline void *vptr_tagged(ant_value_t value) { | ||
| return ant_cage_decode_nonnull(value & NANBOX_DATA_MASK); | ||
| } |
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vptr no longer returns NULL for an empty payload, so existing NULL guards fail.
mkref(type, NULL) encodes payload 0, but vptr calls ant_cage_decode_nonnull(0), which returns the cage base address. Callers that test the result for NULL now receive a non-NULL pointer into the reserved first page of the cage. That page is mapped PROT_NONE, so the next dereference crashes instead of taking the NULL branch.
This path is reachable. In src/ant.c, js_obj_to_func_ex builds mkval(T_OBJ, vdata(obj)) at line 475 for a non-T_OBJ argument. When obj is undefined, the payload is 0, js_obj_ptr at line 216 returns a non-NULL pointer, and line 490 writes func_obj->flags.is_constructor. ant_str_flat_ptr in include/internal.h has the same problem, and vstrlen relies on its NULL result.
Decode through the null-preserving helper. vptr_tagged also duplicates vptr, because value & NANBOX_DATA_MASK equals vdata(value).
🐛 Proposed fix to preserve NULL semantics
static inline void *vptr(ant_value_t value) {
- return ant_cage_decode_nonnull(vdata(value));
+ return ant_cage_decode(vdata(value));
}
static inline void *vptr_masked(ant_value_t value, uint64_t tag_mask) {
- return ant_cage_decode_nonnull(vdata(value) & ~tag_mask);
+ return ant_cage_decode(vdata(value) & ~tag_mask);
}
static inline void *vptr_tagged(ant_value_t value) {
- return ant_cage_decode_nonnull(value & NANBOX_DATA_MASK);
+ return ant_cage_decode(value & NANBOX_DATA_MASK);
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| static inline void *vptr(ant_value_t value) { | |
| return ant_cage_decode_nonnull(vdata(value)); | |
| } | |
| static inline void *vptr_masked(ant_value_t value, uint64_t tag_mask) { | |
| return ant_cage_decode_nonnull(vdata(value) & ~tag_mask); | |
| } | |
| static inline void *vptr_tagged(ant_value_t value) { | |
| return ant_cage_decode_nonnull(value & NANBOX_DATA_MASK); | |
| } | |
| static inline void *vptr(ant_value_t value) { | |
| return ant_cage_decode(vdata(value)); | |
| } | |
| static inline void *vptr_masked(ant_value_t value, uint64_t tag_mask) { | |
| return ant_cage_decode(vdata(value) & ~tag_mask); | |
| } | |
| static inline void *vptr_tagged(ant_value_t value) { | |
| return ant_cage_decode(value & NANBOX_DATA_MASK); | |
| } |
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In `@include/value.h` around lines 122 - 132, Update vptr and vptr_masked to
decode through the null-preserving cage helper so zero payloads return NULL
rather than the cage base address; update vptr_tagged to reuse vptr instead of
duplicating its masking logic. Preserve existing nonzero pointer decoding and
NULL-guard behavior for callers such as js_obj_ptr and ant_str_flat_ptr.
| static void set_func_code_ptr(ant_t *js, ant_value_t func_obj, const char *code, size_t len) { | ||
| set_slot(func_obj, SLOT_CODE, mkval(T_NTARG, (size_t)code)); | ||
| set_slot(func_obj, SLOT_CODE, mkref(T_NTARG, code)); | ||
| set_slot(func_obj, SLOT_CODE_LEN, tov((double)len)); | ||
| } |
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mkref(T_NTARG, code) aborts the process for any pointer outside the cage.
ant_cage_encode calls ant_cage_reject_pointer when the pointer is not inside the cage, and that function prints to stderr and calls abort(). set_func_code_ptr accepts an arbitrary const char *.
One caller passes a string literal. build_dynamic_function at line 6049 calls set_func_code_ptr(js, func_obj, "(){}", 4). A string literal lives in read-only program data, never in the cage, so evaluating new Function() with zero arguments terminates the process.
The second caller, set_func_code at line 3549, passes the result of code_arena_alloc. That allocation is not part of this cohort, so its backing store must be confirmed as cage-resident.
Store code pointers as handles, or copy the literal into cage-backed storage before encoding.
🐛 Proposed fix for the literal caller
- set_func_code_ptr(js, func_obj, "(){}", 4);
+ set_func_code(js, func_obj, "(){}", 4);Run the following script to confirm where code_arena_alloc takes its memory from:
#!/bin/bash
# Description: Determine whether code_arena_alloc returns cage-resident memory.
set -euo pipefail
rg -n -C20 'code_arena_alloc\s*\(' --type c --type h
rg -n -C10 'code_arena' --type c --type h | rg -n 'malloc|calloc|realloc|mmap|ant_cage_alloc|ant_cage_reserve|pool_alloc' || true
# Find every caller that hands a pointer to set_func_code_ptr.
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In `@src/ant.c` around lines 3541 - 3544, Update set_func_code_ptr and its callers
so SLOT_CODE never encodes a non-cage pointer through mkref(T_NTARG, code).
Ensure the literal passed by build_dynamic_function is copied into cage-backed
storage or represented by a valid handle, and verify that set_func_code’s
code_arena_alloc result is cage-resident before retaining the existing path.
| uintptr_t ant_cage_base_address = 0; | ||
| size_t ant_cage_reserved_size = 0; |
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Publish the cage base and size atomically.
ant_cage_base_address and ant_cage_reserved_size are written at lines 90-91 under cage_lock, but the inline helpers in include/cage.h (ant_cage_contains, ant_cage_encode, ant_cage_decode) read them with no lock from any thread. A thread that encodes a pointer while another thread runs the first initialization has a data race on non-atomic objects.
The observable failures are a stale zero base, which makes ant_cage_contains return false and ant_cage_encode abort through ant_cage_reject_pointer, and a base that is visible before ant_cage_reserved_size, which makes a valid pointer fail the range test.
Declare both as _Atomic and use release stores in cage_initialize_locked with acquire loads in the header helpers. As an alternative, initialize the cage once during engine startup before any other thread can run.
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In `@src/cage.c` around lines 15 - 16, Declare ant_cage_base_address and
ant_cage_reserved_size as atomic objects, use release stores when publishing
them in cage_initialize_locked, and update ant_cage_contains, ant_cage_encode,
and ant_cage_decode to use acquire loads. Preserve the ordering so readers
observe the initialized base and reserved size consistently.
| uint64_t ant_external_handle_intern(void *ptr) { | ||
| if (!ptr) return 0; | ||
| size_t bucket = pointer_hash(ptr); | ||
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| handles_lock_acquire(); | ||
| for (ant_external_entry_t *entry = external_buckets[bucket]; entry; entry = entry->next) { | ||
| if (entry->ptr == ptr) { | ||
| uint64_t handle = entry->handle; | ||
| handles_lock_release(); | ||
| return handle; | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
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| ant_external_entry_t *entry = malloc(sizeof(*entry)); | ||
| if (!entry || external_count == NANBOX_DATA_MASK) { | ||
| free(entry); | ||
| handles_lock_release(); | ||
| return 0; | ||
| } | ||
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| entry->ptr = ptr; | ||
| entry->handle = external_count + 1; | ||
| if (!external_publish(entry->handle, ptr)) { | ||
| free(entry); | ||
| handles_lock_release(); | ||
| return 0; | ||
| } | ||
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| external_count = entry->handle; | ||
| entry->next = external_buckets[bucket]; | ||
| external_buckets[bucket] = entry; | ||
| handles_lock_release(); | ||
| return entry->handle; | ||
| } |
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The handle registry has no release path, so every handle consumer grows without bound. src/handles.c publishes sequential handles from static state that no code frees, and the previous per-isolate free path in js_destroy was removed. Memory grows per isolate cycle and per distinct external pointer, and the handle space is capped at 4,194,304 entries.
src/handles.c#L207-L240: add release functions such asant_cfunc_handle_releaseandant_external_handle_release, declare them ininclude/handles.h, and recycle freed handles through a free list.src/ant.c#L509-L515: release the external handle returned byant_external_handle_internwhen the typed-array data is freed.src/ant.c#L19049-L19084: release the handles created byant_cfunc_handle_createduring isolate teardown, or deduplicate on meta contents so repeated exposures reuse one handle.
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In `@src/handles.c` around lines 207 - 240, Add release APIs for external and
C-function handles in handles.c, declare them in include/handles.h, and recycle
released handle IDs via a free list while preserving registry consistency. In
src/ant.c lines 509-515, release the handle returned by
ant_external_handle_intern when the typed-array data is freed. In src/ant.c
lines 19049-19084, release handles created by ant_cfunc_handle_create during
isolate teardown, or deduplicate exposures by meta contents so repeated
exposures reuse one handle.
| sv_closure_t *closure; | ||
| ant_value_t osr_closure_value = js_mkundef(); | ||
| size_t root_mark = gc_root_scope(js); | ||
| if (!gc_push_root(js, &osr_closure_value)) return SV_JIT_RETRY_INTERP; | ||
| if (vtype(frame->callee) == T_FUNC) closure = js_func_closure(frame->callee); | ||
| else { | ||
| memset(&osr_closure, 0, sizeof(osr_closure)); | ||
| osr_closure.func = func; | ||
| osr_closure.upvalues = frame->upvalues; | ||
| osr_closure.js = js; | ||
| osr_closure.bound_this = js_mkundef(); | ||
| osr_closure.super_val = js_mkundef(); | ||
| osr_closure.module_ctx = js_mkundef(); | ||
| osr_closure.gc_epoch = gc_get_epoch(); | ||
| closure = &osr_closure; | ||
| closure = js_closure_alloc(js); | ||
| if (!closure) { | ||
| gc_pop_roots(js, root_mark); | ||
| return SV_JIT_RETRY_INTERP; | ||
| } | ||
| osr_closure_value = mkref(T_FUNC, closure); | ||
| closure->func = func; | ||
| closure->upvalues = frame->upvalues; | ||
| closure->js = js; | ||
| closure->bound_this = js_mkundef(); | ||
| closure->super_val = js_mkundef(); | ||
| closure->module_ctx = js_mkundef(); | ||
| closure->gc_epoch = gc_get_epoch(); | ||
| } |
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Zero-initialize the OSR-allocated closure before use.
When frame->callee is not T_FUNC, js_closure_alloc(js) allocates a new sv_closure_t, but only func, upvalues, js, bound_this, super_val, module_ctx, and gc_epoch are set. call_flags, bound_argc, func_obj, u, and in_remember_set are left unset.
The equivalent stack-local closure literal in src/silver/ops/calls.h (the fake closure) explicitly initializes every one of these fields, including func_obj = 0 and u.pending. That pattern only makes sense if js_closure_alloc does not zero the memory it returns (consistent with the fixed-arena allocation style used by js_upvalue_alloc and pool_block_alloc elsewhere in this PR).
This closure is rooted and reachable for the duration of OSR compilation and execution. If a GC runs during that window, gc_mark_closure reads c->func_obj (passed to gc_mark_value if non-zero) and, when c->call_flags & SV_CALL_HAS_BOUND_ARGS happens to be set by leftover garbage bits, reads garbage c->bound_argc as a loop bound and dereferences garbage c->u.bound.argv entries. Both paths can crash or corrupt memory.
Zero-initialize the closure (or set every field explicitly) before it becomes reachable.
🐛 Proposed fix for the OSR closure initialization gap
closure = js_closure_alloc(js);
if (!closure) {
gc_pop_roots(js, root_mark);
return SV_JIT_RETRY_INTERP;
}
osr_closure_value = mkref(T_FUNC, closure);
- closure->func = func;
- closure->upvalues = frame->upvalues;
- closure->js = js;
- closure->bound_this = js_mkundef();
- closure->super_val = js_mkundef();
- closure->module_ctx = js_mkundef();
- closure->gc_epoch = gc_get_epoch();
+ *closure = (sv_closure_t){
+ .func = func,
+ .upvalues = frame->upvalues,
+ .js = js,
+ .bound_this = js_mkundef(),
+ .super_val = js_mkundef(),
+ .module_ctx = js_mkundef(),
+ .gc_epoch = gc_get_epoch(),
+ };Run the following script to confirm js_closure_alloc does not zero its returned memory:
#!/bin/bash
# Description: Inspect js_closure_alloc's implementation for zero-initialization.
set -euo pipefail
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In `@src/silver/swarm.c` around lines 11730 - 11749, Zero-initialize the newly
allocated closure in the non-T_FUNC branch before assigning its fields, or
explicitly initialize every remaining field, including call_flags, bound_argc,
func_obj, u.pending, and in_remember_set. Follow the complete initialization
pattern used by the fake closure in the calls implementation, ensuring the
closure is fully initialized before it is rooted or otherwise reachable.
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