Ash Matheson

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6 years, 1 month ago.

Hard crash when using fopen

Hey all,

I've done a search looking for this crash, but I've not seen anything resembling what I've seen. I'm currently on the mbed desktop app, with a target of the LPC1768 (latest firmware) and building against mbed-os 5.12.0

I've created a simple program, based off the 'blinky' sample and have added a simple 'fopen' command. Which gives me a hard crash:

edit: This is also running from Mbed Studio. copying the file to the device works fine.

output from com port

=============================== SYSTEM INFO  ================================
Mbed OS Version: 51200 
CPU ID: 0x412fc230 
Compiler ID: 1 
Compiler Version: 6110004 
RAM0: Start 0x10000000 Size: 0x8000 
RAM1: Start 0x2007c000 Size: 0x8000 
ROM0: Start 0x0 Size: 0x80000 

++ MbedOS Fault Handler ++

FaultType: HardFault

Context:
R0   : 00000001
R1   : 100013DC
R2   : 80000000
R3   : 00004E74
R4   : 1000140C
R5   : 00004E73
R6   : 1000176C
R7   : 100022C4
R8   : 00004E82
R9   : 00004E6C
R10  : 00000000
R11  : 00000000
R12  : 0000360D
SP   : 100013D8
LR   : 00006B9D
PC   : 00006BA2
xPSR : 21000000
PSP  : 100013B8
MSP  : 10007FD0
CPUID: 412FC230
HFSR : 80000000
MMFSR: 00000000
BFSR : 00000000
UFSR : 00000000
DFSR : 00000002
AFSR : 00000000
Mode : Thread
Priv : Privileged
Stack: PSP

-- MbedOS Fault Handler --



++ MbedOS Error Info ++
Error Status: 0x80FF013D Code: 317 Module: 255
Error Message: Fault exception
Location: 0x5103
Error Value: 0x6BA2
Current Thread: main  Id: 0x10001A44 Entry: 0x53C5 StackSize: 0x1000 StackMem: 0x100004F8 SP: 0x10007F74 
For more info, visit: https://mbed.com/s/error?error=0x80FF013D&osver=51200&core=0x412FC230&comp=1&ver=6110004&tgt=LPC1768
-- MbedOS Error Info --

And the codebase is fairly trivial:

main.cpp

/* mbed Microcontroller Library
 * Copyright (c) 2018 ARM Limited
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 */

#include "mbed.h"
#include "stats_report.h"

LocalFileSystem local("local");

DigitalOut led1(LED1);
DigitalOut led2(LED2);

#define SLEEP_TIME                  250 // (msec)
#define PRINT_AFTER_N_LOOPS         20

// main() runs in its own thread in the OS
int main()
{
    SystemReport sys_state( SLEEP_TIME * PRINT_AFTER_N_LOOPS /* Loop delay time in ms */);

    FILE* pfp = fopen("/local/config.ini", "r");

    int count = 0;
    while (true) 
    {
        // Blink LED and wait 0.5 seconds
        led1 = !led1;
        wait_ms(SLEEP_TIME);

        if ((0 == count) || (PRINT_AFTER_N_LOOPS == count)) 
        {
            // Following the main thread wait, report on the current system status
            sys_state.report_state();
            led2 = !led2;
            count = 0;
        }
        ++count;
    }
}

I originally thought this may have been an issue in debugging via mbed studio, but I'm now seeing this in running code, using mbed OS 5.13

posted by Ash Matheson 12 Aug 2019

1 Answer

Zoltan Hudak
6 years, 1 month ago.

Hello Ash,

I tested your code (copy & pasted to a new mbed-os-example-blinky program) with both Mbed OS 5.13.2 and Mbed OS 5.12.0. However, I was not able to reproduce the reported run time error on my LPC1768 board updated to the latest firmware.

Hey there,

I tried to update the question yesterday, but wasn't able to. The Big Missing Piece (tm) to the question was that I was also running this through Mbed Studio via the debug/run tools.

I'm assuming that something funky is going on with where the running executable is loaded.

posted by Ash Matheson 08 Aug 2019