docs: re-measure the hardening path and correct two claims it exposed - #769
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Both example stacks were rebuilt from the current library, so every figure on this page and the README's headline pair was re-measured against them. Twenty stages become eighteen. At a 480-byte default the message cap no longer needs raising, so that stage and the ring-halving that followed it both go, and a right-sizing stage joins at the end — the first point at which the numbers that justify a cap, a pool or a stack actually exist. Eleven cross-references move with them. Nine stages measure within their published figure and are left alone. Five do not: the first record now carries the logging task's stack, which the retired sizing stage used to charge later; the ring and the service task's stack measure 5.4k; the store 3.9k and 1.5k; TLS's own share of its RAM 650 B; and mutual TLS 80 B and 2.1k, where both figures had been rounded down rather than up. Two claims were stale rather than restructured. The baseline builds at C17, not C11 — no -std is passed and the toolchain defaults there. And the handler prints one bad-config line per missing collaborator, which is three, not two. README: the first record's RAM goes 0.4 to 1.9 KB and the whole path's 37 to 35.3 KB. Both flash figures are unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
WalkthroughThe documentation updates RAM and flash estimates, change the integration requirement to C17, reorder hardening stages, revise transport and protection guidance, clarify RFC 5426 oversized-datagram handling, and add final compile-time tuning guidance. ChangesHardening roadmap
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In `@docs/hardening-path.md`:
- Around line 185-187: Update the “When you need it” guidance in
docs/hardening-path.md to state that Stage 8 uses plain TCP and provides
delivery-failure detection but no confidentiality; direct loss-detection needs
to Stage 8 and confidentiality needs to Stage 13, without retaining the
incorrect UDP-based wording.
- Around line 622-623: Update the RFC discussion around the receiver baseline to
state the IPv4 480-octet and IPv6 1180-octet minimums, and identify them as
recommended values when MTU is unknown. Clearly distinguish these receiver
limits from the library sender fallback, which uses
SOLIDSYSLOG_UDP_IPV6_SAFE_PAYLOAD (1232), and retain the existing truncation
behavior description.
- Line 29: Update the C17 integration statement in the documentation to
accurately describe the build configurations, or explicitly configure both CMake
and Make examples to use C17. Ensure the documented comparison reflects the
actual standard selection for the application, SolidSyslog, and Mbed TLS
sources.
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The RFC 5426 §3.2 row had the contract obliging an implementor to distinguish oversize. It does not: OVERSIZE is required where the platform can tell the difference, and collapsing it into a plain failure is permitted where it cannot, which is what the lwIP and PlusTCP pages already say. Supported still holds — at the default cap nothing an adapter emits reaches the payload bound it reports. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@docs/rfc-compliance.md`:
- Line 127: Update the RFC 3.2 table entry to add the missing comma after
“oversize” and explicitly identify the platform as the subject in the failure
case; separate the behavior so trimming and retrying applies only when the
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…ording Stage 4 offered stage 8 as the answer to both of UDP's shortcomings. TCP answers the dropping; the reading is stage 13's. Each now points at the stage that addresses it. The RFC 5426 §3.2 row states the 480-octet default against every shipped adapter's floor, and the retry clause takes the comma it was missing. What the fallback should be where no path MTU is available is #770, for 0.2.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Purpose
Both example stacks were regenerated against the current library, so the figures the hardening
path and the README quote are measurements of a stack that no longer exists. This re-measures
them, and restructures the page for the two stages that regeneration removed.
Part of #767.
Change Description
Twenty stages become eighteen. At a 480-byte default the message cap no longer needs raising,
so Size the record and the Shrink the ring that answered it are gone. A right-sizing stage
joins at the end — the first point at which the numbers that justify a cap, a pool or a stack
exist. Eleven internal stage references and two
/* ... as stage N ... */comments move with them.Nine unchanged stages are left alone — 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 14 all measure within
their published figure, so neither their prose nor their cost line is touched. Five costs move
because the measurement moved:
Stage 17 goes 150 to 160 B for the same reason. Every
kis 1024 bytes rounded up, and theintro's rounding note is re-summed: eighteen roundings, ~13.6 KB against a measured 13.5 KB.
Two claims were stale rather than restructured. The baseline is described as built as C11; no
-stdis passed andarm-none-eabi-gcc12.2 defaults to C17. And stage 3 showed twobad-configlines where the handler prints one per missing collaborator, which is three.
The new stage 18 inherits the tunables link and the RFC 5424 §6.1 / RFC 5426 §3.2 material from
the retired stage, and states what the right-sizing did: cap 400 against a 345-octet worst case,
pools to one, ring eight records to four, stacks at twice measured high-water.
README: the first record's RAM goes 0.4 to 1.9 KB — the logging task's stack, as above — and
the whole path's 37 to 35.3 KB, which the right-sizing stage gives back. Both flash figures, +5 KB
and +13.5 KB, are unchanged.
Test Evidence
Documentation only; no code changes and no tests affected.
mkdocs build --strictclean in themkdocs-mkdoxyimage, which is what CI runs.markdownlint-cli2clean over the changed files.solid-syslog-example README, which the
device measures itself. The Make stack agrees to within 16 bytes of flash and 4 of RAM at every
stage.
arm-none-eabi-gcc -dM -Ein the cross image(
__STDC_VERSION__ 201710L); the three-line handler output read from the example's committedrun report.
Areas Affected
docs/hardening-path.mdandREADME.md. No source, build or test changes. The website carriesthe same headline pair and a four-row cost table derived from these figures; those edits are
tracked separately under #767.
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