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Julian Oes d828e1b12d fix(uORB): snapshot _data under the node lock before sending to a remote subscriber
process_add_subscription() (CONFIG_ORB_COMMUNICATOR only) read _data_valid and
the topic buffer contents while passing a pointer into _data straight to
send_message(), with no synchronization against a concurrent publisher. A
publisher's write() memcpy's into _data and sets _data_valid under ATOMIC_ENTER,
so the remote-init send can read a torn/partially-updated sample - most clearly
for o_queue == 1, where the read slot ((gen - 1) % 1) is exactly the slot being
written.

This is a pre-existing latent race (the previous px4::atomic<uint8_t*> _data only
guarded the pointer, never the bytes) that neither ASan nor TSan can catch because
CONFIG_ORB_COMMUNICATOR is not built in those configs. On VOXL2 it runs on the
muorb RX thread concurrently with publishers.

Snapshot the most recent sample into a temporary buffer under ATOMIC_ENTER, then
send it outside the critical section - mirroring copy(). The buffer is allocated
before the critical section (it cannot be allocated under ATOMIC_ENTER on NuttX)
and send_message() must run outside it anyway, since it can be slow and may call
back into DeviceNode. This only affects the rare subscription-add path, not the
publish hot path.

Signed-off-by: Julian Oes <julian@oes.ch>
2026-07-02 08:42:49 -07:00
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