fix(beacon): repair the MeshBeacon radio switch/restore regression from #11573 - #11596
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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.
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.
…y 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 #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.
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ChangesRadio transmission and beacon state
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In `@src/mesh/RadioInterface.h`:
- Around line 70-71: Update MAX_RADIO_PAYLOAD_LEN to use MAX_LORA_PAYLOAD_LEN
minus sizeof(PacketHeader), ensuring the on-air payload limit is 239 bytes and
the queue rejects the oversized boundary case.
In `@src/mesh/RadioLibInterface.cpp`:
- Around line 251-257: Centralize abandoned-packet cleanup for both
cancelSending() and removePendingTXPacket(): clear the packet’s beacon target,
call MeshBeaconModule::reconfigureForBeaconTX(this, nullptr) when no beacon
target remains, then release the packet. Ensure every packet-removal path uses
this cleanup so an emptied queue restores the home radio configuration.
In `@src/mesh/Router.cpp`:
- Around line 605-615: The oversized-payload path in Router.cpp currently sends
TOO_LARGE NAKs without ensuring the packet’s channel field is a valid channel
index. Update the relevant send/encoding flow to preserve the pre-encoding
channel index for locally encoded packets, while converting the wire channel
hash to a valid channel index for already-encrypted packets before
abortSendAndNak(). Add a regression test covering an oversized encrypted phone
packet and verify its NAK contains the valid channel index.
In `@test/test_mesh_beacon/test_main.cpp`:
- Around line 1405-1409: Update the reconfigure tests using the radio
test-double state to track whether the first call occurred and whether a
repeated call occurred, then assert those booleans instead of literal call
counts. Apply this to test/test_mesh_beacon/test_main.cpp ranges 1405-1409,
1440-1444, 1469-1472, and 1497-1500; preserve the expected single-call behavior
in the first two sites and no-call behavior in the latter two.
In `@test/test_radio/test_main.cpp`:
- Around line 449-457: The tests leave the radio’s sendingPacket pointing to a
released packet, causing later beginSendingPublic calls to fail. Before
packetPool.release(p), use the production completion path or an existing
test-only reset to clear sendingPacket in both affected test cases, including
the corresponding cleanup near the other referenced assertions.
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In `@test/test_mesh_beacon/test_main.cpp`:
- Around line 1345-1350: Shorten the comments describing
ReentrantRadioInterface, the restore test, the nested-switch test, and the
deferred-restore test in test/test_mesh_beacon/test_main.cpp at lines 1345-1350,
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In `@test/test_radio/test_main.cpp`:
- Line 435: Rename the tests to test_beginSendingOversizedPayloadIsClamped and
test_beginSendingFittingPayloadIsSentWhole, and update their test registrations
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Repairs a MeshBeacon radio switch/restore regression introduced in #11573 by preventing restore from firing during standby/pre-TX scans and adding explicit re-entrancy/restore gating, while keeping the oversized-payload safety fixes.
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- Add Router-side payload-size rejection (for already-encrypted frames) and make RadioInterface::beginSending clamp instead of failing.
- Reinstate/strengthen MeshBeacon switch/restore safety with explicit re-entrancy guard + “packet finished” gating, plus improved logging.
- Add targeted unit tests covering re-entrancy, deferred restore, and payload size boundaries.
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| test/test_radio/test_main.cpp | Updates radio tests to reflect clamping behavior and adds an exact-fit payload test. |
| test/test_nexthop_routing/test_main.cpp | Adds Router::send rejection test for payloads exceeding radio buffer capacity. |
| test/test_mesh_beacon/test_main.cpp | Adds regression tests for MeshBeacon radio switch/restore re-entrancy and deferred restore behavior. |
| src/modules/MeshBeaconModule.cpp | Implements re-entrancy guard, restore gating based on “target live”, and improved logging/behavior for nested switches. |
| src/mesh/Router.cpp | Adds last-gate payload-size validation before handing to the radio interface. |
| src/mesh/RadioLibInterface.cpp | Moves beacon restore back under if (p) and clears target settings when canceling queued packets. |
| src/mesh/RadioInterface.h | Introduces MAX_RADIO_PAYLOAD_LEN constant. |
| src/mesh/RadioInterface.cpp | Changes beginSending to clamp oversized payloads instead of returning failure/releasing the packet. |
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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.
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(dupes to my report in discord, but with details on setup) i've confirmed that the MeshBeacon now works in following setup as excpected,
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In `@src/mesh/RadioLibInterface.cpp`:
- Around line 586-591: In onNotify(), replace the direct
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abandonBeaconTarget(bad), preserving packet release afterward. Use
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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.
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.
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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.
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src/mesh/RadioTxHook.h#L7-L13: reduce the interface overview to two lines.src/mesh/RadioLibInterface.cpp#L411-L413: reduce the pre-stage rationale to two lines.src/modules/MeshBeaconModule.h#L94-L97: reduce the hook class description to two lines.src/modules/MeshBeaconModule.cpp#L300-L302: remove or shorten the three-line section separator.test/test_mesh_beacon/test_main.cpp#L1513-L1520: shorten the section and test documentation.As per coding guidelines, “Keep code comments minimal - one or two lines, max.”
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In `@src/mesh/RadioLibInterface.cpp`:
- Around line 411-414: Update RadioTxHooks::beforeTransmit in
src/mesh/RadioLibInterface.cpp:411-414 to detect an untagged queue head after
the queue transition, restore the home radio configuration, and return
PRETX_DEFER while preserving the p == nullptr restore gate for re-entrant calls.
Adjust the related beacon re-enqueue flow in
src/modules/MeshBeaconModule.cpp:306-316 as needed so normal packet B is
restored before transmission, and add a regression test covering beacon A
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In `@src/mesh/RadioTxHook.h`:
- Around line 7-13: Shorten the comments to no more than two lines: reduce the
interface overview in src/mesh/RadioTxHook.h lines 7-13, the pre-stage rationale
in src/mesh/RadioLibInterface.cpp lines 411-413, the hook class description in
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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.
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Fixes the MeshBeacon regression from #11573.
#11573 fixed two real problems: a heap leak in the beacon send path, and an unchecked payload
memcpythatassert()leaves unguarded in release builds. Both are kept here. The leak fix is untouched; the bounds check moves toRouter::send(), where refusing a packet is already a supported outcome and nothing has to be unwound mid-transmit.What is reverted is the change that carried them — hoisting
reconfigureForBeaconTX()out ofcompleteSending()'sif (p)block. Every driver'ssetStandby()callscompleteSending(), so the restore began firing on the pre-TX channel scan: beacons transmitted on the home preset while stamped with the beacon channel hash, and the restore recursed throughreconfigure()until the stack ran out.That
if (p)was an accidental re-entrancy guard nothing named. This PR names it, with a re-entrancy guard and a restore gate inMeshBeaconModule, so a future hoist is a logged no-op rather than a crash. Seven tests cover it.Verified on hardware (heltec-mesh-pocket-5000-inkhud): beacons transmit on the target preset, no reboots.
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