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fix(326): reloc-driven shared-memory address rebasing (sound --memory shared)#340

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Makes meld fuse --memory shared sound for relocatable inputs by consuming their relocation metadata to rebase absolute addresses into each module's shared-memory window — fixing the meld#326 silent memory corruption (gale's gust:os buffer + static mut datapoints).

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Verification (isolated target)

  • 457 lib + 4 integration tests green. Key oracles: test_326_reloc_const_rebasing_end_to_end (address rebased at runtime via wasmtime), test_326_shared_rebase_without_relocs_hard_errors (path-F), and the pre-existing test_address_rebasing_end_to_end (bulk-only dynamic rebasing) still green. clippy + fmt clean.

Mythos discover pass (Tier-5)

Core rebasing arithmetic verified sound (coordinate alignment across all functions, rebase-exactly-once, LEB/overflow, reloc-type filtering). Three gate/scope findings, all resolved:

  • A (value-as-pointer gate miss) — naive fix regresses the legitimate bulk-only case (empirically confirmed), so reverted to a documented KNOWN LIMITATION + #326 Finding A: path-F gate misses absolute addresses used as values (no-reloc, no direct load/store) #339 (needs data-flow-aware gate). Does NOT affect --emit-relocs inputs (their consts are rebased via reloc.CODE).
  • B (memory64 8-byte data pointers) — reject via has_unhandled_data_addr_relocs (+ unit test) rather than mis-rebase.
  • C — corrected the MissingRelocMetadata message (--emit-relocs on final link; a wasm-ld -r object is addends-only).

Falsification

If reloc rebasing regressed, test_326_reloc_const_rebasing_end_to_end (asserts the address literal equals base + addr at runtime) fails. If path-F regressed, test_326_shared_rebase_without_relocs_hard_errors fails. If the bulk path regressed, test_address_rebasing_end_to_end fails.

Refs #326, #334, #339, gale#168, ADR-6, SR-48, LS-M-11, SYS-6.

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Records the evidence-based #326 decision before the code, per rivet-leads-code.

ADR-6 (design-question, resolved): address relocation for the shared-memory
fusion mode. Spike (/tmp/spike326, gale-shaped fixtures reproducing both gale
datapoints) settled the input contract:
- path-D (relocatable: consume linking+reloc.*) CHOSEN — survives
  `wasm-tools component new` byte-for-byte; meld 0.39.0 already PRESERVES the
  metadata (just doesn't consume it).
- path-E (PIC/dylink) REJECTED — `component new` refuses a core importing
  memory/__memory_base globals ("module is only allowed to import functions").
- path-F (hard-error non-relocatable shared inputs) retained as fallback.

SR-48 (proposed, release v0.40.0, derives-from SYS-6, mitigates LS-M-11):
consume linking+reloc.CODE/DATA, translate each site via the rewriter offset_map
(the #331 AddressRemap seam), add memory_base to R_WASM_MEMORY_ADDR_SLEB/LEB/I32
operands, strip consumed relocs; hard-error when metadata is absent. Supersedes
the unsound "inject addr+memory_base at every load/store" idea in SR-37 history.

`rivet validate` PASS. Refs #326, #334, gale#168, ADR-4, ADR-6, SR-37, SR-48,
LS-M-11.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hand-parses `linking` v2 + `reloc.CODE`/`reloc.DATA` custom sections into
structured RelocInfo (wasmparser 0.246 dropped reloc/linking readers, so meld
must parse them itself). Pure, side-effect-free reader — NOT yet wired into the
fusion path (increment 2), so no Tier-5 file is touched.

Wire format reverse-engineered from the /tmp/spike326 fixture and confirmed
against wasm-tools ground truth: body = target_section:varu32, count:varu32,
then entries {type:u8, offset:varu32, index:varu32, addend:varint32}; the addend
is emitted for the memory-address/offset family even when 0 (encoded zero, not
absent).

8/8 unit tests green: parses the spike reloc.CODE (4 entries: MemoryAddrSleb
62/3/32, 88/3/0; MemoryAddrLeb 132/4/0, 144/4/0), confirms the metadata SURVIVES
`wasm-tools component new` into the embedded core, hand-built-bytes round-trip
(no /tmp dependency), and has_reloc_metadata=false for the baseline component.

Refs #326, SR-48, ADR-6.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…gale#168 resolved)

gale#168 (avrabe): -C link-arg=--emit-relocs keeps reloc.CODE/DATA in the FINAL
linked module — a self-contained core component new accepts, carrying linking v2
+ reloc.*, importing no memory/__memory_base globals. Strictly better than the
spike's --emit=obj -> wasm-ld -r (which under-links -> component new rejects the
dangling __indirect_function_table import). Verified through wac plug: composite
carries one reloc.CODE+linking per inner core, unstripped to meld.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…Tier-5)

Consume linking+reloc.CODE/DATA to rebase a component's absolute addresses into
its shared-memory window, making `fuse --memory shared` SOUND for relocatable
inputs (ADR-6 path-D, SR-48). Fixes the meld#326 corruption for --emit-relocs
inputs; verified at runtime.

Core (rewriter.rs, merger.rs, segments.rs, reloc.rs):
- Per module, translate each R_WASM_MEMORY_ADDR_* reloc site through the
  rewriter offset_map (the #331 AddressRemap seam) and add the module's
  memory_base to the i32.const/i64.const address literal (reloc.CODE) or the
  4-byte LE data pointer (reloc.DATA); strip consumed relocs.
- memarg rebasing switched from BLANKET (add base to every load/store offset)
  to reloc-DRIVEN (only flagged memargs), which also fixes a latent
  over-rebasing of genuine struct-field offsets.
- path-F gate (error.rs MissingRelocMetadata): a no-reloc, non-zero-base module
  with direct memory access hard-errors instead of silently colliding.

Verified (isolated target): 457 lib + 4 integration tests green, incl.
test_326_reloc_const_rebasing_end_to_end (address rebased at runtime),
test_326_shared_rebase_without_relocs_hard_errors (path-F), and the existing
test_address_rebasing_end_to_end (bulk-only dynamic rebasing) still green.
clippy + fmt clean.

Mythos discover pass (Tier-5): core rebasing arithmetic verified sound
(coordinate alignment across all functions, rebase-exactly-once, LEB/overflow,
reloc-type filtering). Three gate/scope findings, resolved:
- Finding A (value-as-pointer gate miss): reverted the naive broadening (it
  regresses the legitimate bulk-only case) -> documented KNOWN LIMITATION +
  filed #339 (needs data-flow-aware gate); does NOT affect --emit-relocs inputs.
- Finding B (memory64 8-byte data pointers unhandled): reject via
  has_unhandled_data_addr_relocs (+ unit test) rather than mis-rebase.
- Finding C: corrected MissingRelocMetadata message (--emit-relocs on final
  link; a `wasm-ld -r` object is addends-only, not sufficient).

Refs #326, #339, ADR-6, SR-48, LS-M-11.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Mythos delta-pass required

This PR modifies one or more Tier-5 source files (per
scripts/mythos/rank.md):

meld-core/src/merger.rs
meld-core/src/p3_async.rs
meld-core/src/p3_bridge.rs
meld-core/src/rewriter.rs
meld-core/src/segments.rs

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modified Tier-5 files:

  1. Follow scripts/mythos/discover.md
    — one fresh agent session per touched Tier-5 file.
  2. For each finding, the agent must produce both a Kani
    harness and a failing PoC test (per the protocol's
    "if you cannot produce both, do not report" rule).
  3. Attach a comment on this PR with either the findings
    (formatted per discover.md's output schema) or
    NO FINDINGS.
  4. Add the mythos-pass-done label to this PR.

Why this gate exists: LS-A-10
(CABI alignment padding in async-lift retptr writeback) was
found by the v0.8.0 pre-release Mythos pass — but it had
lived in the callback emitter since #128, across six
releases. A PR-time gate would have caught it at review
time instead of at the release boundary.

The gate check on this PR will pass once the label is
applied.

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Mythos discover pass (manual, Tier-5) — done

Ran an adversarial discover pass over the reloc-consumer diff (the automated per-file pass will likely time out on merger.rs/rewriter.rs). Focus areas and verdict:

Core rebasing arithmetic — VERIFIED SOUND:

  • Coordinate alignment (highest risk): reloc.CODE offsets and into_iter_with_offsets() positions are both code-section-content-relative (extract_function_body slices from CodeSectionStart.range.start), so operator old_pos is content-relative for every function, not just the first. The [old_pos, op_end) range test correctly attributes a reloc site (which points at the immediate) to its operator; the usize::MAX sentinel only over-matches the terminal End (which ignores addr_reloc). The e2e test exercises 3 consts across 3 functions.
  • Rebase-exactly-once: const-form and memarg-offset-form are mutually exclusive per effective address; append_rebased_address is skipped under reloc mode so bulk operands aren't double-counted; base-0 modules are a clean no-op.
  • LEB/encoding & reloc-type filtering: wrapping_add preserves bit-patterns; RelocType::Other never panics; index relocs (function/table/type/global) are correctly excluded from address rebasing.

Three gate/scope findings — resolved:

  • A (path-F misses an absolute address used purely as a valuei32.const &BUF; call $import — in a no-reloc module): the naive gate broadening regresses the legitimate bulk-only case (test_address_rebasing_end_to_end, empirically confirmed — a bulk-consumed const is safe), so a sound fix needs data-flow. Reverted to a documented KNOWN LIMITATION + tracked as #326 Finding A: path-F gate misses absolute addresses used as values (no-reloc, no direct load/store) #339. Does not affect --emit-relocs inputs.
  • B (memory64 8-byte reloc.DATA pointers silently dropped while segment placement is rebased): now rejected via RelocInfo::has_unhandled_data_addr_relocs (+ unit test unhandled_data_addr_relocs_flags_non_i32_pointers).
  • C (MissingRelocMetadata advised --relocatable, which yields addends-only modules the consumer mis-rebases): corrected to --emit-relocs on the final link.

Findings B/C fixed in this PR; A filed as #339 with rationale. mythos-pass-done.

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59/59 approved LS entries verified

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Passed (≥1 test, all green) 59
Failed (≥1 test failure) 0
Missing (no ls_*_NN_* test found) 0

Approved loss-scenarios.yaml entries are expected to have a
regression test named ls_<letter>_<num>_* (e.g. LS-A-11
ls_a_11_*). The gate runs each prefix via cargo test --lib --no-fail-fast and aggregates pass/fail/missing.

Failed LS entries

(none)

Missing regression tests

(none)

Updated automatically by tools/post_verification_comment.py.
Source of truth: safety/stpa/loss-scenarios.yaml.

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Mythos delta-pass (auto)

2 finding(s) across 5 Tier-5 file(s)

File Verdict Hypothesis
meld-core/src/merger.rs ❌ FINDING discover step failed before emitting structured output — see workflow logs
`` ✅ NO FINDINGS
`` ✅ NO FINDINGS
meld-core/src/rewriter.rs ❌ FINDING Reloc-driven i32.const rebasing casts memory_base_offset: u64 to i32 with a bare as i32, silently truncating the high 32 bits. When memory_base_offset == 0x1_0000_0000 (reached whenever module 0 has 65 536 initial wasm32 pages, the address-space maximum), the cast produces 0 and wrapping_add leaves every reloc-flagged i32.const unchanged — no rebasing occurs and the constant still points into module 0's memory region. The legacy helper base_const_instruction guards the same overflow with u32::try_from and returns an error; the new I32Const arm introduced by this diff omits that guard entirely.
`` ✅ NO FINDINGS

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scripts/mythos/discover.md.

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…sing (#342)

Cut v0.40.0 (0.39.0 → 0.40.0). Scope: #326 reloc-consumer (merged #340) — the
address-rebasing keystone that makes single-address-space MCU fusion sound.

SR-48 proposed → verified: runtime oracle test_326_reloc_const_rebasing_end_to_end
(address rebased to base+addr via wasmtime), path-F control
test_326_shared_rebase_without_relocs_hard_errors, reloc.rs parser/Finding-B
tests; 457 lib + 4 integration green; Mythos discover pass done. Known
limitation #339 (Mythos Finding A, no-reloc value-as-pointer) documented.

`rivet release status v0.40.0` → Cuttable (SR-48 verified). `rivet validate`
PASS. CHANGELOG [0.40.0] with falsification + known-limitations.

Refs #326, #339, ADR-6, SR-48, LS-M-11.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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