fix(radio): MeshBeacon heap leak and runtime packet payload size check - #11573
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256in the comment and10in the payload size. Derive the oversized value fromgetRadioBufferPayloadCapacity()and increment the stored size without a literal margin.As per coding guidelines, files under
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- Around line 429-430: Update the oversized encrypted-size setup near
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meshtastic#11573 (meshtastic#11596) * fix(radio): put the beacon restore back inside completeSending's if (p) Reverts the RadioLibInterface and RadioInterface changes from meshtastic#11573 (ac330e6). Hoisting MeshBeaconModule::reconfigureForBeaconTX() out of the if (p) block changed its meaning from "a send completed" to "the radio went to standby, for any reason" - and every driver's setStandby() calls completeSending() unconditionally: on the pre-TX LBT scan, on startReceive(), and inside reconfigure(). Two shipping faults followed, both confirmed on hardware the next day. Every beacon transmitted on the wrong preset. isChannelActive() standbys the radio immediately before each transmit, so the restore ran between the switch and the key-up. The packet went out carrying the beacon channel hash with home modem settings - inaudible to listeners on the target preset, an unknown hash to listeners on the home one. Inert in both directions. And unbounded recursion: the restore calls iface->reconfigure(), which standbys, which calls completeSending(), which restores again, each level running a full applyModemConfig(). It terminated in a HardFault and a silent reboot (Reset reason 0x4 on nRF52, no panic output). The crash masked the misdirection - the node died before Started Tx, so the wrong preset was invisible until the recursion was fixed. completeSending() clears sendingPacket at the top, so any nested call sees p == NULL. The if (p) block was an accidental re-entrancy guard, and nothing named it as such; removing it created both faults at once. Name it now. This also reverts the beginSending() failure return that motivated the move, and the startSend() scaffolding built to reach the restore on that path. The payload bounds check it replaced is reinstated in the next commit, at a point where refusing a packet is already a supported outcome. * fix(radio): bound the payload at the radio queue, not mid-transmit meshtastic#11573 replaced beginSending()'s assert with a runtime check that logged, released the packet and returned 0. beginSending() had never returned 0 before, so startSend() gained a failure path it had to unwind - and the release moved ownership of the packet out of the caller that held it. That new return value is what made hoisting the beacon restore look necessary. The check itself is worth keeping. MeshPacket.encrypted has a nanopb maximum of 256 bytes against a 240-byte radio buffer, and beginSending() is on the path for relayed frames and phone-sourced packets, neither under our control. Asserts are commonly compiled out in release builds, so what shipped was an unchecked 256-into-240 memcpy driven by remote input. Move it to Router::send(), immediately before iface->send(p) - the single funnel for every over-the-air transmit. Refusing a packet there is already a supported outcome: it returns TOO_LARGE, which is what perhapsEncode() already returns for the same condition on the decoded path, and releases or NAKs exactly as the duty-cycle limit above it does. Nothing radio-side has happened at that point, so there is no half-started transmit to tear back down. perhapsEncode()'s existing check does not cover this case: relayed and phone-sourced frames arrive already encrypted and never reach it. beginSending() keeps a last line of defence, but clamps rather than failing, so it stays a call that always succeeds. Adds MAX_RADIO_PAYLOAD_LEN so both sites name the same number instead of recomputing it. Nothing about a beacon can trigger any of this - broadcast_message is admin-truncated to 100 bytes, the whole MeshBeacon protobuf tops out at 180, and observed beacons run to 106 - which is why this is separated from the beacon changes rather than carried with them. Tests: Router::send() refuses an oversized payload and still sends one that exactly fills the buffer; beginSending() clamps instead of rejecting, and leaves ordinary traffic whole. * fix(beacon): guard the radio switch/restore against re-entry and early restore Two checks in reconfigureForBeaconTX(), both independent of radio state, so the switch/restore state machine no longer rests on sendingPacket's lifetime - which is exactly the implicit coupling that let meshtastic#11573 through. A re-entrancy guard. Both branches end in iface->reconfigure(), whose setStandby() runs completeSending(), which calls straight back in here. While one call is applying a config, a nested call returns false and leaves it alone. This covers the switch branch too, which had the same exposure with a quieter symptom: a second switch before the restore would take the re-entrant call as a restore and undo the switch still being applied, sending the beacon on the home channel instead of its target. A restore gate. The restore now waits for the packet that armed the switch to actually finish, tracked by id against our own target table rather than by asking the radio. Every caller that completes or abandons a beacon clears that packet's target settings first, so a live entry means the TX has not happened yet. cancelSending() now clears too, which is what keeps a cancelled beacon from pinning the radio on the beacon config. Together these make explicit the invariant completeSending()'s if (p) block was carrying by accident: a future hoist of that call gets a logged no-op instead of a crash and a misdirected beacon. Also sets radioSwitched before reconfigure() rather than after, in both branches, so the flag never describes a radio state that is not yet true. Diagnostics, because every step of this dance was previously silent about its own state. Count consecutive switches with no restore between them and log the depth on both sides, so a change-change-change-restore run reads off the log; switch meshtastic#2 onwards prints the held home snapshot, which is the value that has to survive a second switch. The restore names the config it is restoring to, so a stale snapshot is visible directly. The re-entrancy guard logs when it fires - expected exactly twice per beacon, so a burst means something new is re-entering rather than a silent reboot. And setTargetRadioSettings() now warns on the slot eviction that previously left a packet to key up on whatever config was running - no crash, no log, wrong channel. Reachable only with beacon broadcast enabled (the default flags are LISTEN_ENABLED | LEGACY_SPLIT, so broadcast is off) and a target differing from the running config; an identical target takes the early return and never switches. Tests: three re-entrancy cases against a RadioInterface whose reconfigure() re-enters exactly as completeSending() does - bounded, so a regression fails an assertion instead of overflowing the stack and taking the runner with it - plus a restore that must defer until the beacon it switched for completes. * fix(beacon,radio): address review findings on meshtastic#11596 Payload ceiling was one byte too generous. RadioBuffer::payload is 240 bytes because the buffer reserves MAX_LORA_PAYLOAD_LEN + 1, but the PHY caps a whole frame at 255 and beginSending() adds a 16-byte header - so a 240-byte payload produced a 256-byte frame. Define the ceiling as MAX_LORA_PAYLOAD_LEN - sizeof(PacketHeader), matching what perhapsEncode() already enforces, with a static_assert that it still fits the buffer. Target-table eviction could unblock the restore gate. With every slot live, setTargetRadioSettings() overwrote slot 0 - and if that slot held the packet the outstanding switch is gated on, the restore came unblocked and put the home config back under a beacon that had not keyed up. Skip that entry when choosing a victim, and refuse the target outright if every slot is in flight. Needs radioSwitched/switchedForId at file scope so the setter can see them. Restore on every abandon path, not just the clear. cancelSending() dropped a queued packet's target without restoring, so a beacon pre-switched by onNotify() and then cancelled left the radio receiving on the beacon config; removePendingTXPacket() did neither. Both now route through abandonBeaconTarget(), as does startSend()'s tx-disabled branch. The restore gate makes it a no-op when the abandoned packet is not the one we switched for. No NAK on the oversize drop. p->channel is a wire hash by that point, not an index, and Channels::getIndexByHash() is declared but never defined. Only already-encrypted ingress can reach the gate anyway - perhapsEncode() bounds everything it encodes - and those carry no index to answer on. Release and log. Tests clear sendingPacket before releasing their packet, and assert against the payload ceiling rather than the buffer size. * fix(beacon): route the invalid-target drop through abandonBeaconTarget onNotify()'s invalid-config drop was the one packet-abandonment path still clearing the target directly instead of going through abandonBeaconTarget(), so a packet that armed the radio switch and then failed validation would be released with the radio left on the beacon config and nothing to restore it. The helper's restore gate (targetRadioSettingsLive(switchedForId)) makes the call a no-op for any packet that did not arm the switch, so this closes the gap without risking a premature restore. Also trims the switch-state comment to the two-line limit. * fix(radio): take the abandoned packet as a pointer to const cppcheck's constParameterPointer failed the check matrix on every board: abandonBeaconTarget() only forwards the packet to clearTargetRadioSettings(), which already takes a const pointer, so the parameter should be const too. * refactor(radio): drive the beacon radio switch through TX hooks RadioLibInterface named MeshBeaconModule at six call sites behind MESHTASTIC_EXCLUDE_BEACON guards, so the driver carried per-packet beacon state: when to switch preset, when a target config was invalid mid-transmit, and when not to listen on a busy channel. Review on meshtastic#11596 asked for the module dependency to come out. RadioTxHook is what the driver knows instead - beforeTransmit() returning send/defer/drop, holdsRadio(), packetReleased() - on a self-registering intrusive list, so nothing is allocated and a build without the beacon module registers nothing and every call is a no-op. The four abandon paths (cancel, remove-pending, TX disabled, completeSending) collapse onto one packetReleased(), and the tri-state means the driver no longer has to know why a packet wanted a re-delay or a drop. MeshBeaconTxHook wraps the existing statics; the switch/restore logic, its re-entrancy guard and its restore gate are untouched. It is created in Modules.cpp inside the existing exclusion guard, so MESHTASTIC_EXCLUDE_BEACON now works by nothing registering rather than by #ifdefs in the driver. Behaviour is unchanged. The invalid-config LOG_DEBUG moves into the module and the driver logs a generic refusal. Four tests cover the send/defer/drop mapping and that an empty hook list is a no-op; native:test_mesh_beacon is 59/59. Also notes in sendBeaconPacket that beacons uplink to MQTT on the primary slot's uplink_enabled, and that the topic follows the beacon channel under the crypto-override swap - both intentional. * fix(beacon): restore the home config for a packet that jumps the queue The restore gate added in 9cb7b96 refused to put the home config back while the beacon that armed the switch was still live. That is right for a release - completeSending() runs on every setStandby(), and restoring there would undo the switch before the beacon had keyed up - but it also caught the case where the driver is asking about a different packet it is about to transmit. MeshPacketQueue::enqueue() inserts by priority (std::upper_bound over CompareMeshPacketFunc), so an ACK or routing packet queued during the beacon's deferred transmit delay lands ahead of it. beforeTransmit() then saw an untagged packet, found the beacon still queued, skipped the restore and returned PRETX_SEND - and the packet transmitted on the beacon's preset, slot and region. It was encrypted and hashed for the home channel, so no receiver on either preset could use it. Apply the gate only to a null p. A non-null untagged packet is the driver about to key up, which always restores; the restore returns PRETX_DEFER, so the driver re-runs the delay and the channel scan on the config it will actually transmit on. beforeTransmit() is the only caller that passes a non-null untagged packet, so nothing else changes. Found by CodeRabbit on meshtastic#11596. native:test_mesh_beacon 60/60, including a regression test for the queue transition; the four re-entrancy tests still cover the null-p gate. --------- Co-authored-by: Ben Meadors <benmmeadors@gmail.com>
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sendBeaconPacket() only released the packet's targetRadioSettings entry when router->send() returned ERRNO_SHOULD_RELEASE. That is the NODENUM_BROADCAST_NO_LORA case, where the Router hands ownership back to the caller. Every other failure - duty cycle limit, oversized payload, position precision, tx disabled - releases the packet inside the Router or the interface without notifying any TX hook, so the entry kept inUse forever. The pool is fixed at 8 entries, exactly four targets times two packets under FLAG_LEGACY_SPLIT, and the per-target loop keeps allocating through a duty cycle condition rather than breaking out. So a single throttled beacon cycle on a 10% region can leak the whole pool, after which setTargetRadioSettings() falls back to overwriting entry 0 and beacons silently transmit on the home radio config until reboot. Only ERRNO_OK means the interface queued the packet and now owns both it and its settings. Route every other return through a helper that frees the entry, and the packet too when the caller still owns it. Completes meshtastic#11573, which introduced the ERRNO_SHOULD_RELEASE guard for the ownership-handback case; the drop paths are the opposite ownership shape.
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sendBeaconPacket() only released the packet's targetRadioSettings entry when router->send() returned ERRNO_SHOULD_RELEASE. That is the NODENUM_BROADCAST_NO_LORA case, where the Router hands ownership back to the caller. Every other failure - duty cycle limit, oversized payload, position precision, tx disabled - releases the packet inside the Router or the interface without notifying any TX hook, so the entry kept inUse forever. The pool is fixed at 8 entries, exactly four targets times two packets under FLAG_LEGACY_SPLIT, and the per-target loop keeps allocating through a duty cycle condition rather than breaking out. So a single throttled beacon cycle on a 10% region can leak the whole pool, after which setTargetRadioSettings() falls back to overwriting entry 0 and beacons silently transmit on the home radio config until reboot. Only ERRNO_OK means the interface queued the packet and now owns both it and its settings. Route every other return through a helper that frees the entry, and the packet too when the caller still owns it. Completes meshtastic#11573, which introduced the ERRNO_SHOULD_RELEASE guard for the ownership-handback case; the drop paths are the opposite ownership shape.
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sendBeaconPacket() only released the packet's targetRadioSettings entry when router->send() returned ERRNO_SHOULD_RELEASE. That is the NODENUM_BROADCAST_NO_LORA case, where the Router hands ownership back to the caller. Every other failure - duty cycle limit, oversized payload, position precision, tx disabled - releases the packet inside the Router or the interface without notifying any TX hook, so the entry kept inUse forever. The pool is fixed at 8 entries, exactly four targets times two packets under FLAG_LEGACY_SPLIT, and the per-target loop keeps allocating through a duty cycle condition rather than breaking out. So a single throttled beacon cycle on a 10% region can leak the whole pool, after which setTargetRadioSettings() falls back to overwriting entry 0 and beacons silently transmit on the home radio config until reboot. Only ERRNO_OK means the interface queued the packet and now owns both it and its settings. Route every other return through a helper that frees the entry, and the packet too when the caller still owns it. Completes meshtastic#11573, which introduced the ERRNO_SHOULD_RELEASE guard for the ownership-handback case; the drop paths are the opposite ownership shape.
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sendBeaconPacket() only released the packet's targetRadioSettings entry when router->send() returned ERRNO_SHOULD_RELEASE. That is the NODENUM_BROADCAST_NO_LORA case, where the Router hands ownership back to the caller. Every other failure - duty cycle limit, oversized payload, position precision, tx disabled - releases the packet inside the Router or the interface without notifying any TX hook, so the entry kept inUse forever. The pool is fixed at 8 entries, exactly four targets times two packets under FLAG_LEGACY_SPLIT, and the per-target loop keeps allocating through a duty cycle condition rather than breaking out. So a single throttled beacon cycle on a 10% region can leak the whole pool, after which setTargetRadioSettings() falls back to overwriting entry 0 and beacons silently transmit on the home radio config until reboot. Only ERRNO_OK means the interface queued the packet and now owns both it and its settings. Route every other return through a helper that frees the entry, and the packet too when the caller still owns it. Completes meshtastic#11573, which introduced the ERRNO_SHOULD_RELEASE guard for the ownership-handback case; the drop paths are the opposite ownership shape.
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sendBeaconPacket() only released the packet's targetRadioSettings entry when router->send() returned ERRNO_SHOULD_RELEASE. That is the NODENUM_BROADCAST_NO_LORA case, where the Router hands ownership back to the caller. Every other failure - duty cycle limit, oversized payload, position precision, tx disabled - releases the packet inside the Router or the interface without notifying any TX hook, so the entry kept inUse forever. The pool is fixed at 8 entries, exactly four targets times two packets under FLAG_LEGACY_SPLIT, and the per-target loop keeps allocating through a duty cycle condition rather than breaking out. So a single throttled beacon cycle on a 10% region can leak the whole pool, after which setTargetRadioSettings() falls back to overwriting entry 0 and beacons silently transmit on the home radio config until reboot. Only ERRNO_OK means the interface queued the packet and now owns both it and its settings. Route every other return through a helper that frees the entry, and the packet too when the caller still owns it. Completes meshtastic#11573, which introduced the ERRNO_SHOULD_RELEASE guard for the ownership-handback case; the drop paths are the opposite ownership shape.
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this is revised PR of #11223, which originally intended to fix possible memory/heap leaks on packet flow.
upon review on the previous PR, this PR has been narrowed down to three minimal, valuable fixes below with one addition for unit test, total of 4 changes across 4 files:
MeshBeaconBroadcastModule::sendBeaconPacketwhenrouter->send()returnsERRNO_SHOULD_RELEASERadioLibInterface::completeSending()even on rejected/aborted transmission paths wheresendingPacketis null.assert()to actual error handling for payload bounds check againstsizeof(radioBuffer.payload)(240 bytes) inRadioInterface::beginSending()to prevent memcpy overflow in NDEBUG release buildstest_beginSending_oversizedPayloadAbortsSafely()intest_radioas unit test for this behavior.Related PRs / Issues
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