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Daniel Samson 1379b699f3 init: /protocol replaces the ServiceId registry
A protocol is reached by name now, not by a compile-time integer. Init is
PID 1 and already knows which binary it started, so init serves /protocol
as a vfs backend: bind claims a contract with the provider's endpoint
attached, open answers with that endpoint as the reply's capability, and
readdir lists what is bound with the task and binary behind it. The kernel
reserves the prefix — nothing may mount over it, under it, or unmount it —
and ServiceId, ipc_register and ipc_lookup are gone, their syscall numbers
left vacant.

A bind is authorized by who the caller *is*: the kernel-stamped binary
together with the supervising task's identity, matched against
/system/configuration/protocol.csv. Identity, not spelling — spawn is
ungated, so an attacker can run any bundled binary, and a name-only rule
would have let it launder grants through an init of its own making. A name
a live process holds is refused to everyone else; a dead one's is released.

Three review rounds against a hostile ring-3 process found what 108 green
tests could not, because the suite contains no attacker. Publishing init's
supervision endpoint as the registry put PID 1's mailbox in every process's
hands, where two forged bytes reached the shutdown path: privileged traffic
is now believed only from the task that holds the contract it speaks for.
A capability arriving on a request outlived every path that ignored it,
one handle per call until the table was full — in init, and in the harness
ten services share — so the arriving capability is owned by the turn and
released unless a handler says otherwise. And the kernel let anyone holding
an endpoint handle aim signals, timers, exit notices and interrupts at it:
binding now requires having created it.

Suite 108/108. The new protocol-registry case asserts eleven properties,
each one an attack that must fail.
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//! IRQ-as-IPC: delivering a hardware interrupt to a user-space driver.
//!
//! A microkernel can't run driver code in the ISR — the driver is a ring-3 process
//! in another address space. So the kernel's ISR does the least it can: quiet the
//! line, acknowledge the CPU, and post an asynchronous notification to the endpoint
//! the driver is blocked on (`ipc_sync.notifyFromIsr`). The driver wakes out of
//! `IPC_ReplyWait`, services the device, and calls `irq_ack` to re-arm.
//!
//! The full cycle, and why each step is where it is:
//!
//! ISR irqMask(gsi) -- the line is still asserted; stop it reaching a CPU
//! irqEoi() -- now safe to tell the LAPIC we're done
//! notifyFromIsr() -- wake the driver (it runs much later)
//! driver <services device> -- reads/clears the device's status register
//! driver irq_ack(device,resource) -- irqUnmask(gsi): the line is quiet, let it through
//!
//! Mask-before-EOI is the load-bearing part. A level-triggered line stays asserted
//! until the *device* is quieted, which only the ring-3 driver can do. EOI with the
//! entry unmasked and the I/O APIC redelivers immediately, forever, before the
//! driver is ever scheduled. Masking converts "level" into something a deferred
//! handler can cope with; `irq_ack` is what closes the loop.
//!
//! Binding is capability-gated exactly like `mmio_map`: the caller must have
//! `device_claim`ed the device, and the GSI must come from one of that device's `irq`
//! resources in the discovered device table (system/kernel/devices-broker.zig). A driver can
//! therefore never bind an interrupt it doesn't own — a raw-GSI system_call would let
//! any process steal the keyboard's line.
//!
//! KNOWN ISSUE (real hardware, not QEMU). Masking a level-triggered redirection entry
//! while its remote-IRR bit is set does not clear remote-IRR on some chipsets, and the
//! line then never fires again — a driver would take exactly one interrupt and block
//! forever. QEMU's I/O APIC clears remote-IRR on EOI regardless of the mask, so the
//! `hpet` test cannot see this. Linux's workaround is to flush remote-IRR by briefly
//! flipping the entry to edge-trigger and back. Revisit when danos first boots on
//! metal; MSI (no mask cycle at all) sidesteps it entirely.
const architecture = @import("architecture");
const sync = @import("sync.zig");
const ipc_sync = @import("ipc-synchronous.zig");
/// GSIs a single I/O APIC covers. 24 is the standard redirection-table size; a
/// second I/O APIC (none on QEMU's q35) would extend this.
pub const maximum_gsi = 24;
/// The endpoint to notify for each bound GSI, or null if unbound. Read from the ISR
/// and written from syscalls, always under the big kernel lock.
var bound: [maximum_gsi]?*ipc_sync.Endpoint = .{null} ** maximum_gsi;
/// Task that owns each binding. Teardown is keyed on *this*, not on the endpoint
/// pointer: an endpoint can be shared between processes (a capability passed in a message
/// hands out extra references), so "every GSI pointing at this endpoint" is not the same
/// set as "every GSI this process bound", and releasing the former on exit would mask
/// a live sibling's device line.
var bound_owner: [maximum_gsi]u32 = .{0} ** maximum_gsi;
/// No GSI assigned to this vector.
const no_gsi: u32 = 0xFFFF_FFFF;
/// Reverse map for the ISR: which GSI does this vector carry? Populated at bind.
/// `interruptDispatch` hands a handler no arguments, so the vector→GSI edge has to
/// be recovered from somewhere — the trampolines below capture the vector at
/// comptime, and this turns it back into a GSI. Trampolines are installed on every
/// vector in the window at boot, so an unbound one must be distinguishable from
/// GSI 0 — hence the sentinel rather than a zero default.
var vector_gsi: [256]u32 = .{no_gsi} ** 256;
/// Vector currently assigned to each GSI (0 = none), so a rebind reuses it.
var gsi_vector: [maximum_gsi]u8 = .{0} ** maximum_gsi;
/// MSI bindings, keyed by **vector** (not GSI): an MSI has no I/O APIC redirection
/// entry, it is a per-device edge-triggered vector the device raises by writing the
/// (address, data) pair `msi_bind` hands back. Read from the ISR and written from
/// syscalls, always under the big kernel lock, like `bound`.
var msi_bound: [256]?*ipc_sync.Endpoint = .{null} ** 256;
var msi_owner: [256]u32 = .{0} ** 256;
/// Set once the trampolines are installed.
var installed = false;
/// The ISR body for a bound device line. Runs with interrupts off, on the
/// interrupted task's kernel stack, on whichever core the I/O APIC picked.
fn dispatch(vector: u8) void {
const gsi = vector_gsi[vector];
if (gsi == no_gsi) {
// No GSI is routed here. It may be an MSI vector (edge-triggered, unshared, no
// I/O APIC entry): just EOI and notify — there is no line to mask and no ack
// cycle. Or it's spurious, and the EOI alone keeps the LAPIC from wedging on an
// in-service bit. Same lock discipline as below: msi_bound[vector] is read and
// used under the acquisition `msiRelease` writes it under.
_ = sync.enter();
defer sync.leaveIsr();
architecture.irqEoi();
if (msi_bound[vector]) |endpoint| ipc_sync.notifyLocked(endpoint, vector);
return;
}
// One lock region for the whole cycle. Two reasons, and the second is subtle:
//
// - The I/O APIC is an index/data register pair, so two cores interleaving a
// read-modify-write of a redirection entry would corrupt it.
// - `bound[gsi]` must be *read and used* under the same acquisition that
// `unbind` writes it under. Dropping the lock between the load and
// `notifyLocked` would let a driver exiting on another core free the endpoint
// in the gap, and we would post a notification into freed memory. The GSI is
// routed to the core that bound it, but a driver may migrate and exit
// elsewhere, so this is reachable on SMP.
//
// No deadlock: the lock is non-recursive, but a core holding it runs with
// interrupts disabled and so cannot interrupt itself into here.
_ = sync.enter();
defer sync.leaveIsr();
architecture.irqMask(gsi); // the line is still asserted; stop it reaching a CPU
architecture.irqEoi(); // now safe to release the LAPIC's in-service bit
// Wakes the driver if it's blocked in ReplyWait; otherwise queues the badge on
// the endpoint's notify ring, so an interrupt taken while the driver is off
// doing something else is not lost.
if (bound[gsi]) |endpoint| ipc_sync.notifyLocked(endpoint, gsi);
}
/// Install one no-argument trampoline per usable vector. Each closes over its own
/// `vector` as a comptime constant — that's the trick that gets an argument into
/// `idt.Handler` (`*const fn () void`) without a per-vector hand-written stub.
pub fn init() void {
if (installed) return;
inline for (0..architecture.irq_vector_count) |i| {
const vector: u8 = @intCast(@as(usize, architecture.irq_vector_base) + i);
architecture.irqSetHandler(vector, &struct {
fn trampoline() void {
dispatch(vector);
}
}.trampoline);
}
installed = true;
}
/// Lowest unused vector in the device window, or null if they're all spoken for.
fn allocVector() ?u8 {
var v: u8 = architecture.irq_vector_base;
while (v < architecture.irq_vector_base + architecture.irq_vector_count) : (v += 1) {
var used = msi_bound[v] != null; // taken by an MSI binding
for (gsi_vector) |gv| {
if (gv == v) used = true; // taken by a GSI binding
}
if (!used) return v;
}
return null;
}
pub const BindError = error{ BadGsi, InUse, NoVector };
/// Deliver `gsi` to `endpoint` as an IPC notification, on behalf of task `owner`. Routes the
/// line to this core, installs the binding, and unmasks. Caller must hold the big
/// kernel lock, and must already have checked that `owner` claimed the device this GSI
/// belongs to.
pub fn bind(gsi: u32, endpoint: *ipc_sync.Endpoint, owner: u32) BindError!void {
if (gsi >= maximum_gsi or !architecture.irqOwnsGsi(gsi)) return error.BadGsi;
if (bound[gsi] != null) return error.InUse;
const vector = allocVector() orelse return error.NoVector;
vector_gsi[vector] = gsi;
gsi_vector[gsi] = vector;
bound[gsi] = endpoint;
bound_owner[gsi] = owner;
// Level-triggered, active-high. Level is the general case a driver must survive
// (and what hpet configures its comparator for); an edge source simply never
// leaves the line asserted, so the mask/ack cycle is harmless there.
//
// Hardcoded for now: a device whose MADT interrupt-source override declares the
// line active-*low* (most legacy PCI INTx) will need the polarity threaded
// through from discovery. Nothing danos binds today is such a device.
architecture.irqRoute(gsi, vector, true, false);
architecture.irqUnmask(gsi);
}
pub const MsiError = error{NoVector};
/// Allocate an interrupt vector and bind it to `endpoint` for task `owner`, returning
/// the vector. The `msi_bind` mechanism: MSI is edge-triggered and unshared, so there
/// is no GSI, no I/O APIC redirection entry, no mask, and no ack cycle — the device
/// raises the interrupt by *writing* the (address, data) pair the syscall derives from
/// this vector, and `dispatch` just EOIs and notifies. Caller holds the big kernel
/// lock and has verified `owner` claimed the device. See docs/driver-model.md (M15).
pub fn msiBind(endpoint: *ipc_sync.Endpoint, owner: u32) MsiError!u8 {
const vector = allocVector() orelse return error.NoVector;
msi_bound[vector] = endpoint;
msi_owner[vector] = owner;
return vector;
}
/// Re-arm `gsi` after the driver has quieted the device. Caller holds the big lock
/// and has verified ownership.
pub fn ack(gsi: u32) bool {
if (gsi >= maximum_gsi or bound[gsi] == null) return false;
architecture.irqUnmask(gsi);
return true;
}
/// Drop every binding made by task `owner` — called as that task exits, *before* its
/// endpoints are freed. Each line is left masked, so a dead driver's device goes quiet
/// rather than interrupting into a freed endpoint. Caller holds the big kernel lock,
/// which is what makes this safe against a concurrent `dispatch` on another core.
///
/// Keyed on the owner, not the endpoint: endpoints are shared (a registered service's
/// endpoint has references in several processes), so releasing "everything pointing at
/// this endpoint" would tear down bindings this task never made.
pub fn releaseOwner(owner: u32) void {
for (&bound, 0..) |*slot, gsi| {
if (slot.* != null and bound_owner[gsi] == owner) {
architecture.irqMask(@intCast(gsi));
slot.* = null;
bound_owner[gsi] = 0;
gsi_vector[gsi] = 0;
}
}
// MSI bindings carry no I/O APIC entry to mask — just drop them so a stale vector
// stops notifying a freed endpoint. A late edge on a released vector is spurious
// (msi_bound is null) and `dispatch` EOIs it harmlessly.
for (&msi_bound, 0..) |*slot, vector| {
if (slot.* != null and msi_owner[vector] == owner) {
slot.* = null;
msi_owner[vector] = 0;
}
}
}