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Author SHA1 Message Date
Alex Crichton
654e953fbf Revamp memory management of InstanceHandle (#1624)
* Revamp memory management of `InstanceHandle`

This commit fixes a known but in Wasmtime where an instance could still
be used after it was freed. Unfortunately the fix here is a bit of a
hammer, but it's the best that we can do for now. The changes made in
this commit are:

* A `Store` now stores all `InstanceHandle` objects it ever creates.
  This keeps all instances alive unconditionally (along with all host
  functions and such) until the `Store` is itself dropped. Note that a
  `Store` is reference counted so basically everything has to be dropped
  to drop anything, there's no longer any partial deallocation of instances.

* The `InstanceHandle` type's own reference counting has been removed.
  This is largely redundant with what's already happening in `Store`, so
  there's no need to manage two reference counts.

* Each `InstanceHandle` no longer tracks its dependencies in terms of
  instance handles. This set was actually inaccurate due to dynamic
  updates to tables and such, so we needed to revamp it anyway.

* Initialization of an `InstanceHandle` is now deferred until after
  `InstanceHandle::new`. This allows storing the `InstanceHandle` before
  side-effectful initialization, such as copying element segments or
  running the start function, to ensure that regardless of the result of
  instantiation the underlying `InstanceHandle` is still available to
  persist in storage.

Overall this should fix a known possible way to safely segfault Wasmtime
today (yay!) and it should also fix some flaikness I've seen on CI.
Turns out one of the spec tests
(bulk-memory-operations/partial-init-table-segment.wast) exercises this
functionality and we were hitting sporating use-after-free, but only on
Windows.

* Shuffle some APIs around

* Comment weak cycle
2020-04-29 12:47:49 -05:00
Yury Delendik
cc6e8e1af2 Move cranelift dependencies to wasmtime-environ (#669)
Groups all CL data structures into single dependency to be used accross wasmtime project.
2019-12-05 16:07:34 -06:00
Alex Crichton
39e57e3e9a Migrate back to std:: stylistically (#554)
* Migrate back to `std::` stylistically

This commit moves away from idioms such as `alloc::` and `core::` as
imports of standard data structures and types. Instead it migrates all
crates to uniformly use `std::` for importing standard data structures
and types. This also removes the `std` and `core` features from all
crates to and removes any conditional checking for `feature = "std"`

All of this support was previously added in #407 in an effort to make
wasmtime/cranelift "`no_std` compatible". Unfortunately though this
change comes at a cost:

* The usage of `alloc` and `core` isn't idiomatic. Especially trying to
  dual between types like `HashMap` from `std` as well as from
  `hashbrown` causes imports to be surprising in some cases.
* Unfortunately there was no CI check that crates were `no_std`, so none
  of them actually were. Many crates still imported from `std` or
  depended on crates that used `std`.

It's important to note, however, that **this does not mean that wasmtime
will not run in embedded environments**. The style of the code today and
idioms aren't ready in Rust to support this degree of multiplexing and
makes it somewhat difficult to keep up with the style of `wasmtime`.
Instead it's intended that embedded runtime support will be added as
necessary. Currently only `std` is necessary to build `wasmtime`, and
platforms that natively need to execute `wasmtime` will need to use a
Rust target that supports `std`. Note though that not all of `std` needs
to be supported, but instead much of it could be configured off to
return errors, and `wasmtime` would be configured to gracefully handle
errors.

The goal of this PR is to move `wasmtime` back to idiomatic usage of
features/`std`/imports/etc and help development in the short-term.
Long-term when platform concerns arise (if any) they can be addressed by
moving back to `no_std` crates (but fixing the issues mentioned above)
or ensuring that the target in Rust has `std` available.

* Start filling out platform support doc
2019-11-18 22:04:06 -08:00
Dan Gohman
22641de629 Initial reorg.
This is largely the same as #305, but updated for the current tree.
2019-11-08 06:35:40 -08:00