Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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capsule_runcap_birth() (new capsule_runcap.h/.c): builds a heap-only, single-entry CapsuleDirHeader + CapsuleDesc + CapsuleNameEntry + arena from a home-blocks drive's identity_src region (skipping the first devblock, reserved for MINT's user_identity_seed_t record) and hands it to the existing, unmodified capsule_birth_baby() -- no new birth mechanism, matching FABRIC-3.md §F.6's own trace. Found and closed a real gap in that trace along the way: capsule_birth_baby()'s signature check calls capsule_get_signatures(), which unconditionally returns the compile-time-baked global array -- meaningless for a heap-built directory, where index 0 would compare RUNCAP's own content against whatever real capsule happens to occupy that slot in the baked array (guaranteed-wrong, not a security check). Added an explicit skip_pki_sig flag (0 for all 4 existing call sites, 1 for RUNCAP): that content's trust comes from CERTVERIFY, a separate root, not the capsule-PKI chain. Also found live: capsule_birth_baby() never sets the registry entry's own .name (every existing caller does this itself afterward via capsule_vm_registry_set_name() -- RUNCAP now does too), and capsule_exec_payload() requires a "Block NNNN" header per chunk of content or it's silently skipped, never executed -- not a bug, but necessary context for whoever authors MINT's default personality content next. Added a small accessor pair (repl.h/.c) exposing the currently attached home-blocks device/sig -- the same gap F.9's own BINDSTEP scoping had already flagged, needed by both. Verified end-to-end live in QEMU: synthetic identity-source content written directly to a thumbdrive image's raw devblocks (no capsule build, no mkcapsule) was read, compiled, and executed by a genuinely new VM via a diagnostic RUNCAP-TEST word -- confirmed via VM-EXEC invoking a word defined only in that source. Clean 3-architecture regression boot (no RUNCAP drive attached) confirms no side effects. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019ZGkimpfyh63EZyRkNbkPD
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2.9 KiB
C
76 lines
2.9 KiB
C
/*
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StarForth — Steady-State Virtual Machine Runtime
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Copyright (c) 2023–2025 Robert A. James
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All rights reserved.
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Licensed under the StarForth License, Version 1.0
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*/
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/**
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* capsule_runcap.h - RUNCAP: runtime capsule construction from thumbdrive
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* content (FABRIC-3.md §F.6/§F.18).
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*
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* A user's identity source (raw FORTH init/personality text, minted by
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* MINT into a home-blocks drive's identity_src region) never exists at
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* build time, so it can never appear in the compile-time-baked capsule
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* directory. This builds a heap-only, single-entry CapsuleDirHeader +
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* CapsuleDesc + CapsuleNameEntry + arena from that region and hands it to
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* the existing, unmodified capsule_birth_baby() -- no new birth mechanism,
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* per §F.6's own trace ("capsule_birth_baby() is already generic").
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*
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* Does not verify the caller has already run CERTVERIFY -- that's the
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* caller's responsibility (WIREBIND, not yet built). This function's own
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* job is narrow: read the region, construct the directory, birth it.
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*/
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#ifndef STARKERNEL_CAPSULE_RUNCAP_H
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#define STARKERNEL_CAPSULE_RUNCAP_H
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#ifdef __STARKERNEL__
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#include <stdint.h>
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#include "starkernel/capsule_run.h" /* CapsuleRunResult */
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#include "starkernel/vm_uuid.h" /* VMUuid */
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#include "starkernel/homeblocks_sig.h" /* homeblocks_sig_t */
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struct blkio_dev;
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/**
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* capsule_runcap_birth - Birth a VM from a home-blocks drive's own
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* identity_src region.
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*
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* Reads sig->identity_src_devblocks devblocks starting at
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* sig->identity_src_offset. The first devblock is the identity's own
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* user_identity_seed_t record (MINT, §F.8) and is skipped here -- RUNCAP
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* only cares about the FORTH source that follows it. Refuses cleanly
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* (CAPSULE_RUN_ERR_INVALID) if identity_src_offset is 0 (never minted) or
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* identity_src_devblocks < 2 (no source content beyond the seed record).
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*
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* The heap-allocated directory/descriptor/name/arena are never freed --
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* deliberate, matching kernel_main.c's own compile-time-directory-to-heap
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* copy at Mama's own birth (also never freed): a VM's IDENTITY exec reads
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* directly from this arena, and nothing in this codebase frees capsule
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* arenas after a successful birth today.
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*
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* @param dev Already-open block device for the attached drive.
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* @param sig Already-verified homeblocks_sig_t read from it.
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* @param vm_name Symbolic name for the new VM (becomes both the
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* capsule's own single directory entry name and the
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* VM registry name).
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* @param out_vm_id Output: assigned VM ID.
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* @param out_vm_ctx Output: new VM context (may be NULL if not needed).
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* @return CAPSULE_RUN_OK on success, error code otherwise.
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*/
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CapsuleRunResult capsule_runcap_birth(
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struct blkio_dev *dev,
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const homeblocks_sig_t *sig,
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const char *vm_name,
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VMUuid *out_vm_id,
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void **out_vm_ctx
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);
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#endif /* __STARKERNEL__ */
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#endif /* STARKERNEL_CAPSULE_RUNCAP_H */
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