fix: free borrowed-param promotion buffers at view death (I-176) - #146
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Anchors the conditional free at the view's last use (or enclosing statement for transient slices), closing the per-call leak from I-176. The flag-conditional emission keeps caller-owned heap buffers untouched.
Two promotion-buffer scheduling bugs for slices of borrowed str/bytes params: 1. UAF on loop-rebound views. The liveness pre-pass's first-wins back-edge merge attributes in-loop reads of a loop-rebound view to the pre-loop slice inst, leaving the in-loop slice with no recorded last use. The bound-but-never-read fallback then anchored the PromoFree at the rebind statement, firing every iteration and freeing the buffer the just-rebound view still points into. Defer that anchor to the outermost enclosing loop's exit via own.loop_nesting; free-before-overwrite covers intermediate iterations and the entry-zeroed flag covers zero iterations. Transient-slice anchors are unchanged. 2. Early returns leaked the promotion buffer (16 B/call): a last use inside the return operand anchors on a sub-inst the terminator sweep skips, and a return inside a loop bypasses a loop-deferred anchor. Mirror the owner return-epilogue pass: anchor a PromoFree for every candidate at every Return/ReturnVoid (deduped when the normal anchor is that same statement). Codegen's Return arms already fire due promo frees before the return terminator, and the flag-conditional, flag-clearing emission makes extra anchors no-ops. Regression coverage: two behavioral tests (loop-rebind UAF shapes) and two Valgrind fixtures (return-operand last use, return inside loop); both fixtures leaked 16 B pre-fix under Valgrind and pass after.
I-182: when an owner's last read is inside an if-arm that returns, the branch_may_not_return re-anchor keeps the in-arm Free anchor, which never fires on the not-taken path — the owner leaks there (confirmed via a heap-owner control experiment, 32 B/call). Pre-existing; the borrowed-param promotion side of the same shape is covered by the promotion-free return epilogue.
A view declared before a loop, rebound inside it, and read only after it hit a use-after-free: the liveness pre-pass's first-wins back-edge merge attributes the post-loop read to the pre-loop slice inst, so the in-loop slice gets no recorded last use and falls to the bound-never-read fallback. Anchoring that fallback at the enclosing loop's exit releases the in-loop slice's final buffer while the binding's slot still points into it, so the post-loop read dereferences freed memory (deterministic wrong output: prints NUL instead of the expected byte; Valgrind reports the read inside a 16-byte freed block from __ryo_str_ensure_heap). When the slice statement is inside a loop, anchor the promo free at the end of the function body instead — the same anchor the Owner::Param never-read path uses. Views cannot escape the function, so no read can reach past the body end; free-before-overwrite at the promotion site releases intermediate iterations; the entry-zeroed flag covers zero-iteration loops; and the return-epilogue anchors cover early exits. The non-loop fallback and transient-slice anchors are unchanged. The existing read-after regression test was vacuous (a static literal argument never promotes); it now uses the runtime-built int_to_str argument and failed pre-fix. A new Valgrind fixture for the shape failed pre-fix with the UAF report and passes post-fix.
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Behavioral guards for the two early-return leak shapes (previously Valgrind-only) and a Valgrind fixture for the in-loop rebind UAF (previously covered only by output).
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In `@ryo-backend/src/codegen/views.rs`:
- Around line 388-391: In the promotion-free handling near compile_function,
retrieve the slot with expect using a site-specific message instead of silently
continuing when ctx.promo_slots lacks pf.base. Perform this invariant check
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A missing promo_slots entry previously marked the scheduled free as fired without emitting it, hiding a leak. Mirror emit_frees: surface the invariant violation as a codegen error, checked before freed_at is set.
rest[1:] advances one byte; with multibyte UTF-8 the index can land inside a character, and strview slicing panics at a non-char-boundary index. Say so in the header and point at the planned utf8 module for code-point iteration.
A view whose only use is inside a returning if-arm keeps its normal promo-free anchor in-arm (the conditional-last-use re-anchor refuses branches whose arm returns). When the arm is not taken, a void function falls through to codegen's synthesized return, which has no TIR statement for the return epilogue to anchor on — the promotion buffer leaked on that path (32 B/call, leaks(1)-confirmed). Anchor a copy of every candidate's free after the final body statement when it may fall through; flag-conditional emission keeps it a no-op where the buffer was already freed or never promoted. Add a behavioral regression test and a Valgrind fixture covering the not-taken path.
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🟠 Major · Keep promotion storage per live view.
ryo-backend/src/codegen/views.rs:137-222
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftKeep promotion storage per live view. When an inline borrowed parameter produces two distinct views,
record_promo_candidateschedules both views, butcompile_functionallocates one scratch slot per base. The next inline promotion frees that slot’s previous buffer before storing its own triple. The first view still retains its original pointer, so a later read can use freed memory and produce incorrect output. Allocate promotion state per live view, and make each scheduled free target its own state instead of overwriting a shared per-base slot.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@ryo-backend/src/codegen/views.rs`:
- Around line 137-222: Update compile_function and the promotion scheduling flow
around record_promo_candidate so promotion state is allocated per live view
rather than one scratch slot per base. Ensure each scheduled free references its
view-specific state, preventing a later inline promotion from freeing or
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The flag-zeroing loop iterated ctx.promo_slots.values() — HashMap iteration order is nondeterministic across runs, so identical source could emit the entry-block stores in different orders. Iterate the sidecar's promotion_frees (deduped by base) instead: slot creation already uses that order, so emission now matches it and is stable.
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Summary
Fixes I-176: slicing a borrowed (non-
inout)str/bytesparameter whose argument was inline (SSO, ≤ 23 B) promoted the callee's copy to a fresh heap buffer that nothing owned — 16 bytes definitely lost per call under Valgrind.Design (allocation-flag route; zero-copy for heap/static args, runtime untouched):
Slice/ToViewwhose base is a borrowedstr/bytesparam and schedules a newPromoFree, anchored at the view's last use (extended through reslices viadefer_anchor), the enclosing statement for transient slices, function end for in-loop-rebound views, and at everyReturn/ReturnVoid(epilogue coverage).@0, promoted triple @8/16/24) instead of writing back into the param'sFatLocals— the param's own triple stays inline, so reads after the view's death are valid and caller-owned heap buffers are never touched (flag=0 pass-through). The flag is entry-zeroed, frees are flag-conditional and flag-clearing, and re-promotion frees the previous buffer first (loop rebinding).Review process found and fixed beyond the original issue:
mut v = s[0:1]+v = s[i:i+1]in a loop), both the in-loop-read and read-after-loop shapes — confirmed by wrong program output and a Valgrind invalid-read report.returnin the loop) — confirmed by 16 B/call RSS growth, now flat.Test plan
cargo test --workspace— greenRUSTFLAGS=-Dwarnings cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets— cleancargo fmt --check,./scripts/check_file_length.sh— clean./scripts/run_linux_tests.sh(Docker, ASan + Valgrind) — Valgrind 37/37, including the I-176 repro fixturevalgrind_slice_borrowed_param_inline(16 B/call leak pre-fix → clean) and UAF fixtureslice_borrowed_param_rebind_loop_read_after(invalid read pre-fix → clean)integration_views.rs: read-after-death, loop rebind, transient slice, reslice chain, heap arg pass-throughSummary by CodeRabbit
strviewslicing.