RTX: Main thread should not write MAGIC_WORD to stack #827
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This is a fix for issue #285. This fix is similar to that proposed by
@oresths in the original issue.
There is code in rt_init_stack() which compares the task_id against the
value of 1 before writing MAGIC_WORD to the bottom of the stack. This
is supposed to stop the write from occurring for the main thread but
svcThreadCreate() doesn't initialize the P_TCB's task_id field until
after rt_init_stack() is executed. If any dynamic memory allocation
has occurred before the main thread is started (from the standard C
startup code) then this write could overwrite data in that allocation.
This change:
before the call to rt_init_context() is made.
reference older versions of the code which would automatically
allocate stack memory if size == 0.
rt_init_context() so that the task is not dispatched to the
scheduler until the task fields have been populated.
I stepped through the rt_init_stack() code on my mbedLPC1768 after this
change was made to make sure that the write of MAGIC_WORD is now
skipped.
When the p_TCB for ptask==__wrap_main() is encountered, the task_id
now has a value of 1 and the write of MAGIC_WORD on line 96 is
skipped.