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…ntry `js_native_call_method`'s handling of a *bare* receiver — a real GC pointer whose value was never NaN-boxed, so its top 16 bits are zero and it decodes as a positive subnormal double — was split between a late magnitude-only recovery and ~1200 lines of probes that ran first. Four defects, all closed by deciding once, at the entry, before the root and before the first probe. * The receiver was not a root. `root_nanbox_f64` parks it in a `RuntimeHandleSlot::Nanbox`, which `gc::try_mark_value` and `gc::try_rewrite_nanboxed_value` both screen on the tag being `POINTER_TAG`/`STRING_TAG`/`BIGINT_TAG`. A bare pointer's tag is zero, so it was neither marked (a mark-sweep inside dispatch can reap it) nor rewritten (an evacuating minor leaves the slot on a from-space address). PerryTS#6910's hole, re-opened in the transient-handle registry. * `JSValue::pointer` stamps `POINTER_TAG` unconditionally, and `string_methods::dispatch_string` gates on `is_any_string()` — so a bare `GC_TYPE_STRING` receiver was reboxed into something that is not a string and `.slice` never reached the string arm. * No forwarding walk, so an already-moved receiver was used at its old address. * And the mirror image: a word that only LOOKED like an address was still read as one. `1e-310` is `0x1268_8b70_e62b` — above the handle band, inside `is_valid_obj_ptr`'s window, unmapped. The tower's probes are magnitude-gated (`try_read_gc_header` derefs `addr - 8` on address range alone, a contract written for a stale address, where the page is still mapped), so `(1e-310 as any).toString()` SIGSEGV'd in `url::search_params::shape_is_url_search_params`. `5e-324` is `0x1` and aliased the handle band, so the handle dispatcher answered it `undefined`. Node prints `1e-310` and `5e-324`. The entry now asks an owner before any probe runs. The allocator answers strongest (`try_read_tracked_gc_header` proves arena page membership or an exact malloc-registry hit); the address-keyed registries answer for headerless allocations (a `Symbol.for` symbol, an ArrayBuffer/Uint8Array backing store, a typed array) that have no `GcHeader` at all. A vouched receiver is reboxed under its true tag, through `resolve_forwarding`, with the `SYMBOL_MAGIC` content screen keeping a fresh `Symbol()` (also a `GC_TYPE_STRING` allocation) out of the string arm — and it is that value the tower roots. An unvouched word is dispatched as the number its bits spell, and never reaches a pointer-shaped probe. Fixing only the probe that happened to fault would be whack-a-mole: every magnitude-gated probe has the same exposure. Deciding at the chokepoint makes the class unreachable, and retires the magnitude-only tail recovery, which is deleted here. Measured by flipping the entry guard off: pre-fix, `.slice(1)` on a bare managed string receiver did not throw — it returned a `POINTER_TAG` value that `try_read_tracked_gc_header` does not recognise, at a different address every run. A wild pointer handed back to codegen. Closes PerryTS#9675 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AqKj15vbuTWf2KZb4Xc4Zi
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe runtime now canonicalizes bare managed GC receivers before native method dispatch. It restores string, BigInt, and pointer tags, follows forwarding addresses, routes unvouched bare words as numbers, and removes magnitude-based tail recovery. Regression tests cover these paths and unchanged values. ChangesBare receiver canonicalization
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This change improves native dispatch for bare managed receivers, including string method routing and numeric fallback handling. The implementation has targeted regression coverage, but merge readiness remains low-risk pending resolution of the receiver-classification concern and the changelog lint failure. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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js_native_call_method->>canonicalize_bare_gc_receiver: canonicalize receiver bits
canonicalize_bare_gc_receiver-->>js_native_call_method: tagged receiver or unchanged bare word
js_native_call_method->>Number_prototype: dispatch unvouched bare word as number
Number_prototype-->>js_native_call_method: method result or not-a-function error
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| different registry: that issue fixed exactly this mismatch for shadow-stack and | ||
| global-root slots (`gc/tests/root_words.rs` pins it, "bare address" included), | ||
| and the transient-handle registry's nanbox slot kind was never converted. | ||
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Use the canonical heap-address predicate before ownership probes.
Call crate::value::addr_class::is_plausible_heap_addr(addr) before bare_word_has_an_owner(addr). This path classifies raw receiver words and must use the shared handle-band and heap-floor check.
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+ if !crate::value::addr_class::is_plausible_heap_addr(addr) {
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Validation, on the host (x86-64 Linux, compiler + runtime rebuilt together)Defect 4, program levelconst n: number = 1e-310;
console.log((n as any).toString());
Defects 1–3, under forced evacuationA dynamic-dispatch probe (46 receiver shapes across strings/numbers/BigInts/ exits 0, and the instrument confirms the arm was not vacuous: 79 copying minors actually moved 164,016 objects while dispatch was running, Suites and gates
One pre-existing divergence this newly exposesWith the crash gone, the probe reaches a line it never used to, and finds a It is specific to the dynamic tower — the static lowering Two CI jobs are red on
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Closes #9675.
What this is, and what it is not
#9675 reports
(number).slice is not a functionfrom a "Yes, and save this"permission dialog in a large minified CLI compiled with Perry. That message is
emitted from exactly one place — the dynamic dispatch tower in
native_call_method.rs— and the issue's own follow-up comment narrowed it to"a genuine number, or a stale/unrecoverable bare pointer", having cleared 45
receiver shapes and every rule-persisting dialog empirically.
This PR fixes the second half of that disjunction, and it does not claim to have
replayed the reporter's session. What it does claim, with an A/B on this
machine, is that the tower's handling of a bare receiver was broken in four
independent ways, one of which is a plain SIGSEGV reachable from one line of
TypeScript. All four are closed by moving one decision to one place.
A "bare" receiver is a real GC pointer whose value was never NaN-boxed, so its
top 16 bits are zero and it decodes as a positive subnormal double. Perry still
produces the shape —
gc_pointer_and_type_from_valueaccepts it explicitly —and the tower recovered it, but only in its last few lines and only ever as
POINTER_TAG.The four defects
1. The receiver was not a root. The tower parks it in a
RuntimeHandleSlot::Nanboxviaroot_nanbox_f64. That slot kind is marked bygc::try_mark_valueand rewritten bygc::try_rewrite_nanboxed_value, andboth begin by rejecting any word whose tag is not
POINTER_TAG/STRING_TAG/BIGINT_TAG. A bare pointer's tag is zero, sorooting one there neither marks the receiver (a mark-sweep inside dispatch
can reap it) nor rewrites the slot (an evacuating minor leaves it on a
from-space address).
This is #6910's hole re-opened in a different registry. That issue fixed exactly
this mark/rewrite mismatch for shadow-stack and global-root slots —
gc/tests/root_words.rsstill pins it, "bare address" included — and thetransient-handle registry's nanbox slot kind was never converted. #7528's fix
(re-read the root slot at every use rather than caching a local, because the
collector rewrites the slot and not the copy) is necessary but not sufficient
here: re-reading a slot the collector never rewrote returns the same stale
address.
2. Strings and BigInts came back as objects.
JSValue::pointerstampsPOINTER_TAGunconditionally.string_methods::dispatch_stringgates onis_any_string(), which accepts onlySTRING_TAG/SHORT_STRING_TAG— so abare
GC_TYPE_STRINGreceiver was reboxed into something that is not a string,and
.slicenever reached the string arm.3. No forwarding walk. A bare receiver a collection had already moved was
reboxed at its from-space address.
4. The mirror image: an unvouched word was still read as a pointer, and
faulted. A genuine positive subnormal double has bits that look like an
address.
1e-310is0x1268_8b70_e62b— above the handle band, insideis_valid_obj_ptr's platform window, and unmapped. The tower's probes aremagnitude-gated:
try_read_gc_headerclassifies by address range and thendereferences
addr - GC_HEADER_SIZE, a contract written for a stale heapaddress, where the page is still mapped. An arbitrary number is not a stale
address; nothing was ever mapped there.
shape_is_url_search_paramsis itself careful — it gates ontry_read_gc_headerprecisely so aDatecell cannot fault it — and simplycannot tell a number from an address. A smaller subnormal aliases the handle
band instead:
5e-324is0x1, so the handle dispatcher answered it and(5e-324 as any).toString()returnedundefinedwhere node returns"5e-324".I took that backtrace rather than assuming one, and it named a probe I would not
have guessed — the fix I had written first was aimed at the wrong block.
The fix
canonicalize_bare_gc_receiverruns as the first statement ofjs_native_call_method, before the root and before any probe. It asks whetheran owner can answer for the word without dereferencing it:
try_read_tracked_gc_headerrequires arenapage membership or an exact malloc-registry hit, plus a valid
obj_type/size/arena-flag triple, before the first header byte is touched;Symbol.forsymbol, anArrayBuffer/Uint8Arraybacking store, a typedarray. These have no
GcHeaderat all, are boxed as POINTERs, and are exactlythe constituency the old tail recovery legitimately served. Each is a table
lookup behind an idle latch, and each is already consulted by
gc_pointer_and_type_from_valuefor the same reason.A vouched receiver is reboxed under its true tag, through
resolve_forwarding, with the tag taken from the resolved header:STRING_TAGforGC_TYPE_STRING,BIGINT_TAGforGC_TYPE_BIGINT,POINTER_TAGotherwise.alloc_symbolgc_mallocs aSymbolHeaderasGC_TYPE_STRING, so the string arm carries the sameSYMBOL_MAGICcontentscreen
gc_pointer_and_type_from_valueuses — a freshSymbol()keepsPOINTER_TAG. That canonical value is what the tower then roots, which is whatcloses defects 1–3.
An unvouched word is definitively not a managed pointer, so it is the number
its bits spell, and
dispatch_unvouched_bare_as_numberanswers it there andthen — it never reaches a pointer-shaped probe. Fixing only the probe that
happened to fault would have been whack-a-mole: every magnitude-gated probe in
the tower has the same exposure, and CLAUDE.md's "Known-weak areas" records this
codebase paying for that pattern three times over. Deciding once, at the
chokepoint, makes the class unreachable instead of fixing its current instance.
That also makes the tower's magnitude-only tail recovery unreachable, so it
is deleted: it was the last place treating address magnitude as proof, it did
neither of the two things the entry now does, and its one legitimate
constituency is in the vouch set above.
Every NaN-boxed receiver returns from a single
bits >> 48compare, so theordinary dispatch path is unchanged.
+0.0deliberately stays on the ordinarypath — it is not address-shaped, so no probe can mistake it for a pointer.
Evidence
A/B by flipping the entry guard off (
if true { return object; }), samebuild, same target dir:
bare_receivertests(1e-310 as any).toString()1e-310, matches node.slice(1)on a bare managed string"bcdef"POINTER_TAGvaluetry_read_tracked_gc_headerdoes not recognise, at a different address every run — a wild pointer handed back to codegen, not a throwFull
perry-runtimesuite: 3082 passed, 0 failed, 4 ignored(
RUST_TEST_THREADS=1, as the crate requires). The one failure duringdevelopment was my own test premise — the first version of the routing test
asserted
2.2e-308was bare-shaped when itsbits >> 48is 15; there is now aboundary test pinning which side of 2^48 each shape falls on, and why the arm
can be this narrow.
Gates:
scripts/run_lint_gates.sh— 62/62 script gates, includingaddr_class_inventory.py, bothraw_handle_debt.pyinvocations,unrooted_local_shape.pyandgc_runtime_root_holders.py.cargo clippy --workspaceclean.Two pre-existing conditions I hit and did not touch: the
warningsjob's-D warningsfails on Linux overpthread_getattr_np/pthread_attr_getstack/pthread_attr_destroybeing declared with different signatures ingc/roots.rsanderror_stack_frames.rs— both declarations are verbatim onmainin files this PR does not modify.Test coverage
native_call_method/bare_receiver/tests.rs, in both directions, because thesecond is what keeps a gate like this honest — this file would pass with the
gate widened to "any address-shaped word", which is precisely the mistake the
deleted tail recovery made.
Reclassification: string →
STRING_TAG(and satisfying the exactis_any_string()predicatedispatch_stringgates on), BigInt →BIGINT_TAG, plain object/array →POINTER_TAG, a hand-forwarded receiver →its current address, an end-to-end
js_native_call_method(bare, "slice", [1])returning"bcdef", and everycanonical receiver carrying a tag the collector actually traces.
Non-reclassification: genuine positive subnormals whose bits sit squarely
inside the window the old recovery accepted, a
Boxallocation carrying ahand-built
GcHeader, headerless registry handle ids across every band, afresh
Symbol(), and twelve NaN-boxed forms returned bit-for-bit.Routing: the two subnormals that actually bit must reach number dispatch; a
Symbol.forsymbol — asserted in the test to be registered and notallocator-tracked, so the registry arm is load-bearing rather than incidental —
must not; nor must any allocator-vouched receiver; and
+0.0must stay on theordinary path.
Rejected alternative
Root the receiver with
root_heap_word_u64, whoseHeapWordslot kind doesaccept bare addresses (that is #6910's fix). One line, but it closes only defect
1 — strings would still dispatch as objects, a forwarded receiver would still be
used at its old address, subnormals would still be dereferenced — and it would
move every ordinary receiver onto the more conservative
try_mark_value_or_rawinterior-pointer path on the hot dispatch route.
No version bump (maintainer bumps at merge).
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