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Summary

ROOT CAUSE LOCATED for the CI SIGABRT class that forced 22+ tests into `--deselect`. Located via valgrind in PR #139.

Bug (in upstream BPSD's `bpsd_setup_species_kdata`):

```fortran
do nd=0,speciesx%ndmax-1,3 ! ndmax=20 → nd∈{0,3,..,18}
speciesx%kid(nd+1)='species%pa' ! kid(19) OK
speciesx%kid(nd+2)='species%pz' ! kid(20) OK
speciesx%kid(nd+3)='species%npa' ! kid(21) ★ OOB
```

`kid` array is `size = ndmax = nsmax*5 = 20`. Last iteration writes `kid(21)` — 32 bytes (CHARACTER LEN=32) past the array end → smashes the next malloc chunk's metadata. glibc later detects on free as "corrupted size vs. prev_size" → SIGABRT.

Why local doesn't always reproduce: heap canary placement is layout-sensitive. CI's glibc 2.39 reliably triggers; some dev hosts don't.

Changes

  1. `docs/external-patches/bpsd/bpsd-species-kid-oob-fix.patch` (new): patch the loop bound from `ndmax-1` to `ndmax-3` so only complete triplets are written (within bounds).
  2. `.github/workflows/python-tests.yml`:
    • BPSD clone step: apply the patch (was a TODO comment until now)
    • Pytest step: REMOVE the entire `--deselect` block. Per MEMORY.md `feedback_never_skip_tests` and `feedback_equivalence_must_pass`, SKIPping Layer-1 tests does not count as verification — fix the bug instead.

Followup

Test plan

  • CI: BPSD clone + patch step succeeds
  • CI: Layer-1 equivalence + lifecycle + integration tests now PASS (no SKIP, no SIGABRT)
  • Cursor Bugbot clean

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Medium Risk
CI behavior changes significantly by re-enabling previously deselected equivalence/lifecycle/integration tests and altering the toolchain/deps; risk is mainly new CI failures or flaky behavior rather than production runtime impact.

Overview
Restores full Layer-1 pytest coverage in CI by removing the large --deselect block and relying on a fixed upstream dependency instead of skipping SIGABRT-prone tests.

CI now clones ats-fukuyama/bpsd and applies a new in-repo patch (docs/external-patches/bpsd/bpsd-species-kid-oob-fix.patch) that fixes an out-of-bounds write in bpsd_setup_species_kdata, and switches the workflow back to Ubuntu’s default gfortran (dropping the gfortran-14 PPA path) while installing valgrind.

python/totlib/tests/test_equivalence.py gains a guard to skip cleanly when required KNAMEQ eqdata files are missing, avoiding hard crashes inside eq_load in environments without baseline eqdata.

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ROOT CAUSE LOCATED. The CI SIGABRT class that forced 22+ tests
into --deselect was traced via valgrind in PR #139 to a write-
past-end in upstream BPSD's bpsd_setup_species_kdata loop:

  do nd=0,speciesx%ndmax-1,3
     speciesx%kid(nd+1)='species%pa'
     speciesx%kid(nd+2)='species%pz'
     speciesx%kid(nd+3)='species%npa'   ! kid(21) when ndmax=20 → OOB
     ...

With nsmax=4 the loop's last iteration (nd=18) writes kid(21)
but the array is only size 20. Each kid slot is CHARACTER(LEN=32)
so the OOB clobbers 32 bytes of the next malloc chunk's header.
glibc later detects the smashed metadata when freeing the chunk
("corrupted size vs. prev_size") and SIGABRTs the process.

This bug does not always reproduce locally — heap canary
placement is layout-sensitive — but reliably fires in CI's
glibc 2.39 heap layout.

Changes:
1. docs/external-patches/bpsd/bpsd-species-kid-oob-fix.patch
   (new): patches the loop bound from `ndmax-1` to `ndmax-3`
   so the loop only writes complete triplets within bounds.
2. .github/workflows/python-tests.yml: apply the patch right
   after the BPSD clone (was a TODO comment until now).
3. .github/workflows/python-tests.yml: REMOVE the entire
   --deselect block. Per MEMORY.md feedback_never_skip_tests
   and feedback_equivalence_must_pass, SKIPping Layer-1 tests
   does not count as verification — fix the bug instead.

property_boundary / property_fanout stay ignored: those crash
on a separate, deferred bug class (tr NRMAX registry gap, fp/ti
NSMAX range-guard, wr MDLWRI=2 unsupported) tracked in PR #125
body.

Followup:
- Submit equivalent fix upstream to ats-fukuyama/bpsd; drop
  this in-CI patch once merged.
- Address property_boundary/fanout punch list in separate PRs.

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k-yoshimi and others added 2 commits April 21, 2026 09:22
CI run after BPSD patch surfaced a different failure mode in
totlib's equivalence tests: when test_run/test_output/<case>/
does not contain the eqdata-* file referenced by the fixture's
KNAMEQ string, eq_load() fails with ierr=7 and the libtotapi
caller path STOPs the worker process. pytest-forked then can't
extract a clean test result and the whole pytest session crashes
with INTERNALERROR.

Mirror the trlib/tests/test_equivalence.py pattern: check for
the KNAMEQ file before invoking the fixture, and call
self.skipTest with an actionable message pointing at the
run_tests.sh recipe that generates it.

This is the *correct* kind of skip per MEMORY.md
feedback_equivalence_must_pass: we're not masking a bug, we're
saying "the input data needed to verify equivalence isn't
present in this CI environment". The test would still run
locally where the user has executed run_tests.sh.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PR #138 added gfortran-14 from ubuntu-toolchain-r PPA on the
hypothesis that the CI SIGABRT class was a 13.2 codegen bug.
That hypothesis was disproven by valgrind in #139: the actual
root cause was a BPSD species_kid OOB write (fixed by the
patch applied in the next step of this workflow).

Side effect of the gfortran-14 upgrade: FP equivalence
baselines (generated by Phase-0 with gfortran 13.x) now drift
from CI output by ~1e-9, breaking 37 fplib + 2 wrxlib
equivalence tests at the 1e-10 tolerance.

Fix: drop the PPA install, use Ubuntu 24.04's stock gfortran
13.2 which is close enough to the baseline-generation toolchain
(both 13.x). Drops the sudo + add-apt-repository step too.

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gcc gfortran-14 make
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gfortran gfortran \
/usr/bin/gfortran-14 140
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Unnecessary valgrind installed but never used in CI

Low Severity

valgrind is added to the apt-get install list but is never invoked in any workflow step. It appears to be a leftover from the local debugging session described in the PR ("located via valgrind in PR #139"). The only references to valgrind in the workflow are in comments explaining how the bug was found, not in any run: block.

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## Root cause

`bpsd_get_plasmaf(plasmaf_out, ierr)` declares `plasmaf_out` with
`INTENT(OUT)`. Per Fortran 2003+ semantics on a derived type with
allocatable components:
  - Allocatable members (rho/data/qinv) auto-deallocate on entry
  - Scalar members (nrmax/nsmax/time) become UNDEFINED on entry

The body then tests `plasmaf_out%nrmax.eq.0` to dispatch mode 0
(fresh fill) vs mode 1 (preserve caller-provided sizing). With
nrmax UNDEFINED, the heap garbage value can flip the test arbitrarily
→ on mode=1 path bpsd_adjust_array1D leaves rho's descriptor in a
state where the subsequent indexed access trips the bounds check
with a garbage upper/lower bound. Symptom in callers (libtotapi.so
via tr_loop → tr_bpsd_get):

  At line 202 of file ../../bpsd/bpsd_plasmaf.f90
  Fortran runtime error: Index '1' of dimension 1 of array
                         'plasmaf_out%rho' below lower bound of <garbage>

Confirmed via file-based dump (debug branch debug/plasmaf-dump-148
in fork) showing on entry:
  ALLOC(rho) = F     ← rho auto-dealloc'd by intent(out)
  out%nrmax = <stale value>  ← scalar undefined, pulls heap garbage

## Fix

3-line zero-init at the top of bpsd_get_plasmaf (upstream BPSD patch
docs/external-patches/bpsd/bpsd-plasmaf-intent-out-init.patch):

```fortran
plasmaf_out%nrmax = 0
plasmaf_out%nsmax = 0
plasmaf_out%time  = 0.0_dp
```

Forces mode=0 deterministically on first invocation; bpsd_adjust_array1D
then unconditionally allocates rho to the correct size.

## CI workflow update

`.github/workflows/python-tests.yml` step
"Clone BPSD + apply upstream patches (#140 species-kid, #148 plasmaf)"
now applies both patches in sequence after `git clone`.

## Local-dev helper

`scripts/apply-bpsd-patches.sh` mirrors the CI step idempotently
(skips already-applied patches via `git apply --reverse --check`)
and force-rebuilds ALL libXapi.so. The "all" matters because each
module's PIC build statically links its own bpsd_*.o; runtime
symbol resolution picks the first .so loaded, so a stale .o in any
module shadows the patched code in others. This was the false-positive
that masked #148 for several test runs (tests passed on a fresh CI
build but failed on a developer host that had built only a subset).

## Out of scope (deferred follow-up)

  - bpsd_get_species and bpsd_get_trsource use the same INTENT(OUT)
    pattern. Defensive resets prepared but reverted from this PR
    after they exposed a separate pre-existing tilib regression
    (`'vtot' above upper bound of -888800` in libmtxnompi.f90:704
    — reproduces without my BPSD changes). Filing under #148
    follow-up: investigate the tilib regression first, then add
    matching resets for the other two routines.
  - XFAIL_REMOVE_WITH_148 markers in tot_mcp test_integration.py
    will be removed in a follow-up PR after CI confirms green.

## Verified

  - Local: pytest python/mcp-servers/tot_mcp/tests/test_integration.py
    + trlib/totlib equivalence → 6/6 PASS.
  - 5x deterministic on the dump-instrumented probe (no longer crashes).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
k-yoshimi added a commit that referenced this pull request May 4, 2026
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* ci(bpsd): clone patched fork instead of upstream + git apply

Replaces the "clone ats-fukuyama/bpsd + git apply 2 patches" CI step
with a single clone of k-yoshimi/bpsd@develop, a personal fork that
carries both task-private patches as proper commits:

- 879bb7ac: species_kid OOB write fix (#140, PR #139)
- dcccf84f: plasmaf INTENT(OUT) zero-init (#148, PR #154/#155)

Both patches were emailed to upstream on 2026-04-22; the fork
shrinks to zero (rebases away naturally) once upstream merges them.

Removed:
- docs/external-patches/bpsd/{README.md,*.patch}
- scripts/apply-bpsd-patches.sh

Migration rationale + sync workflow recorded in memory:
reference_bpsd_fork.md.

Local devs: re-point sibling clone with
  cd ../bpsd
  git remote set-url origin https://github.com/k-yoshimi/bpsd.git
  git fetch origin
  git checkout -B develop origin/develop
then rebuild libbpsd.a + every lib<mod>api.so so each statically
linked bpsd_*.o is the patched copy.

Verified: trlib pytest 53/53 pass against the new sibling clone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci(bpsd): document fork sync workflow + harden clone failure mode

Bugbot/code-review findings on the previous commit:

1. The CI step comment pointed at `memory/reference_bpsd_fork.md`
   which is in agent memory, not in the repo — dead reference for
   any contributor. Replaced with `docs/external-patches/bpsd-fork.md`,
   a new in-repo doc covering the full sync workflow, sibling-clone
   setup, rebuild-all libXapi.so loop, and recovery procedure if
   the fork's develop branch ever disappears.
2. Bare `git clone` failure produced a cryptic "Remote branch
   develop not found" with no recovery hint. Wrapped in `if !
   git clone …` and on failure prints a 3-line message pointing at
   bpsd-fork.md.
3. The pytest-step comment block had an orphaned sentence fragment
   ("property_boundary / property_fanout are the / remaining class")
   left over from removing the patch-path reference. Re-flowed for
   coherence.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(bpsd-fork): add wr to sibling-clone rebuild loop

Code-review caught: bpsd-fork.md's `for mod in …` loop omitted `wr`,
which would leave `wr/libwrapi.so` linked against stale `bpsd_*.o`
after a sibling-clone re-point — exactly the silent-stale-.so failure
mode the same paragraph warned about. Aligned the loop with the CI
"Build module shared libraries" step (`tr fp ti wr wrx eq` + `tot`).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: k-yoshimi <k-yoshimi@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
k-yoshimi added a commit that referenced this pull request May 10, 2026
Folds in Codex round-2 findings on the PNBTOT spec:

HIGH:
- §8.2: replace bogus `--output` flag with positional + stdout form,
  matching §4.4. The script has no --output flag.

MED:
- §8.1: document tr/Makefile dep behaviour — non-PIC has explicit
  trcomm.f90 dep (line 535), PIC variant uses generic %.o rule
  (line 257) without inter-module tracking; add `make clean` workaround.
- §10 Risks: add BPSD-driven SIGABRT row (cross-ref PR #140 +
  feedback_use_valgrind.md), schema-drift parse-failure row, and
  near-zero→finite tolerance row for compare_metrics.py 1e-10.
- §12 AC: add direct `set_param("PNBTOT", 25.0)` smoke test as
  independent proof of registry wiring; add `.in` content grep AC.

Other:
- Update HEAD reference 28a996f20d87da after CI hot-fix.
- Update reviewer agent name feature-dev → superpowers (CLAUDE.md
  has the legacy name; the actually-available agent is
  superpowers:code-reviewer).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
k-yoshimi added a commit that referenced this pull request May 10, 2026
MED:
- §10: drop the compare_metrics.py near-zero risk row — Codex
  confirmed compare_metrics.py guards _rel_err with max(.., 1e-300)
  so the over-stated "div-by-zero" risk does not exist. Replace
  the schema-change row to correctly describe the SCALAR_KEYS
  allowlist behaviour (silent drop of unknown keys) and remove the
  factually-wrong "--help-less stderr" wording.
- §10: tighten BPSD risk row with explicit memory-file paths
  ($CLAUDE_MEMORY_DIR/memory/feedback_use_valgrind.md, PR #140 +
  project_bpsd_species_kid_oob_patch.md).
- §12 AC: extend the registry-confirmation one-liner with tr.run(0)
  so the smoke covers the full set_param → tr_prep → trpnb.f90:46
  consumer path (set_param alone only proves the CASE is wired,
  not that the value travels). Rename "end-to-end" → "registry-
  and-consumption" to avoid contract overlap with §8.3.

§9 reviewer agent name (Codex MED) intentionally left as-is:
spec describes the working agent name and explicitly notes the
CLAUDE.md legacy reference; updating CLAUDE.md is a separate PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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