Phase 8 v3: refuse a same-VM, cross-device raw block copy from within StarshipOS
Two research passes confirmed the identity record itself (seed/pubkey/ cert) is already unreachable from any FORTH primitive -- only C-level read_devblock/write_devblock touch it. But a device's ordinary user block content CAN be copied between two attached devices today, using only stock, unpinned words: <src> BLOCK <dst> BUFFER 1024 MOVE UPDATE SAVE-BUFFERS, or the dedicated RELOCATE-BLOCK word (whose own doc comment already admits "performs no policy validation of its own"). Checked whether the existing per-block owner_fp/BLK-ACL-ALLOW@ metadata already solves this -- it doesn't: owner_fp encodes who (a VM identity pubkey), never where (physical device), and blk_get_buffer()/blk_update() never consult acl_allow/acl_ttl at all -- those fields are completely inert. Small, targeted fix, no rearchitecture: - blk_subsys_relocate_block() (block_subsystem.c): same-device check. Its own documented purpose is wear-leveling (relocate on the SAME device) -- never stated as cross-device, and nothing enforced that until now. - New public blk_lbn_device_handle() (block_subsystem.c/.h): the missing LBN-to-device direction (blk_get_device_range() already goes the other way). Opaque, stable, == comparable. - MOVE (memory_words.c) and CMOVE/CMOVE> (string_words.c): refuse when both addresses are block-window addresses backed by two different devices -- the exact shape of the composed attack. A copy where either end is ordinary VM memory (the overwhelming common case: staging text from PAD, editing a block in place) is untouched. - blk_vm_check_epoch()/blk_vm_slot_for_addr() exposed (block_words.h) so the two new call sites share the same window-slot invalidation contract rather than a second, divergent copy of it. Verified live on all three architectures, not just boot-clean: same- device MOVE/RELOCATE-BLOCK still succeed exactly as before; cross-device MOVE/CMOVE/RELOCATE-BLOCK all refused. Zero UNKNOWN WORD, identical dict_hash across all three (this change adds no FORTH-visible word, only internal refusal conditions, as predicted). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -158,4 +158,39 @@ void blk_vm_flush_all(VM * vm);
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void empty_all_buffers(VM * vm);
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/**
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* @brief Discards vm->blk_vm_lbn[]/cbuf[]/dirty[] if the device chain has
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* changed since last validated (see this function's own doc comment in
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* block_words.c for why). Exposed (Phase 8 v3, 2026-09-23) so callers
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* outside this file that read vm->blk_vm_lbn[] directly (MOVE/CMOVE's
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* cross-device block-copy check, memory_words.c/string_words.c) go through
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* the same invalidation contract blk_vm_find() already uses internally,
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* rather than a second, divergent copy of this logic.
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* @param vm Pointer to the Forth virtual machine instance
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*/
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void blk_vm_check_epoch(VM *vm);
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/**
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* @brief Does `addr` fall inside the block I/O window? Pure address
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* arithmetic against the window's fixed compile-time base/size -- no VM
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* state needed. Exposed (Phase 8 v3, 2026-09-23) for MOVE/CMOVE/CMOVE>'s
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* cross-device block-copy check.
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* @param addr VM offset to test
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* @return slot index (0..BLK_VM_SLOTS-1) if inside the window, -1 otherwise
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*/
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int blk_vm_slot_for_addr(vaddr_t addr);
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/**
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* @brief True if addr1/addr2 are both block-window addresses currently
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* loaded from two different physical devices (Phase 8 v3, 2026-09-23) --
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* the check MOVE/CMOVE/CMOVE> call before copying to refuse a same-VM,
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* cross-device raw block copy. See this function's own doc comment in
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* block_words.c for exactly what is and isn't flagged.
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* @param vm VM performing the copy
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* @param addr1 first VM offset (source or destination, order doesn't matter)
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* @param addr2 second VM offset
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* @return 1 if this copy should be refused, 0 otherwise
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*/
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int blk_vm_is_cross_device_copy(VM *vm, vaddr_t addr1, vaddr_t addr2);
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#endif /* BLOCK_WORDS_H */
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