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Summary

Allow CGOL, Match4, and Snake to participate in the supervised loadable-app
flow.

CGOL gains configurable framebuffer/input paths, framebuffer validation,
reserved-strip placement, clean setup failure handling, and cooperative
SIGTERM. Match4 and Snake become tristate so they can be selected as
loadable modules without removing their builtin option.

This PR is stacked on the nxstore series.

For focused review, the supervised-games change is the final commit
d7b08fd41.
The earlier draft commits are dependencies already under review in #3642,
#3643, and #3660; they will disappear as the stack merges.

Impact

  • New feature: YES, optional module/supervisor operation for existing games.
  • User adaptation: NO for existing builtin configurations.
  • Build: Kconfig symbols become module-capable.
  • Hardware: NO driver change.
  • Documentation: YES; Kconfig help covers the selectable module behavior and
    device paths.
  • Security: NO new security boundary or privilege change.
  • Compatibility: Existing builtin use remains available.
  • Other: This draft depends on the nxstore and calculator drafts.

Testing

  • Build host: macOS 26.5, arm64, GCC 14.2.0.
  • Target: Xtensa ESP32-S3, Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-7.
  • git diff --check
  • NuttX tools/checkpatch.sh
  • ESP32-S3 module build
  • CGOL rendered with 28.9 percent observed stack use and exited on SIGTERM
  • Match4 and Snake reported unavailable LED devices cleanly instead of
    corrupting state

Testing logs before change:

CGOL, Match4, and Snake cannot participate in the supervised module flow.

Testing logs after change:

cgol rendered and exited cooperatively on SIGTERM
cgol stack usage: 28.9%
match4/snake: unavailable LED devices reported without corrupting state

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  • I have updated all required description fields above.
  • I have reviewed and signed the commit.
  • Local static and hardware checks pass.
  • This PR adheres to the current contribution and coding guidelines.
  • My PR is still work in progress.
  • My PR is ready for review and can be safely merged.

Fill in most of what the initial nxpkg slice deferred: network sync
and artifact acquisition over plain HTTP (verified via SHA-256), an
install rewrite that supports network sources and reclaims state left
by an interrupted previous install, and wiring update/remove/rollback/
available into the CLI.

Harden the package path against untrusted input along the way: bounded
memory-safety helpers and explicit size limits throughout, storage
read/write hardened against partially-written files, path-traversal
rejection in manifest name/version before they reach the filesystem,
and a fix for a lost-update race on the shared installed-packages
database (two concurrent installs of different packages could
otherwise silently clobber each other's recorded state).

Add an optional manifest icon field for the nxstore GUI frontend to
consume, raise PKG_INDEX_MAX now that the in-memory index is
heap-allocated, and document the repository layout and local server
setup in system/nxpkg/README.txt.

Also fixes a real build break: pkg_runtime_compat() unconditionally
referenced CONFIG_ARCH_BOARD, a Kconfig string symbol with no default
clause under ARCH_BOARD_CUSTOM, so it is left entirely undefined
rather than defined-but-empty on a custom board - falls back to
CONFIG_ARCH_BOARD_CUSTOM_NAME instead. Routes pkg_error()/pkg_info()
through syslog rather than stdio, since neither is visible to a
supervisor with no attached console.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5
Signed-off-by: aviralgarg05 <gargaviral99@gmail.com>
Fix real correctness/security gaps found during review, on top of the
network sync and CLI completion work:

- pkg_install(): commit the installed database before writing the
  current/previous pointer files, and before advancing transaction
  state past ACTIVATED. Those are recovery bookkeeping and convenience
  mirrors respectively - once the installed database itself is
  durably committed, a failure to refresh either one must not trigger
  the failure-cleanup path, which could otherwise delete a payload the
  database now legitimately points at. Also stop treating an existing
  version directory as newly created when reinstalling an
  already-installed version, so a failed reinstall can't delete a
  working install.

- pkg_uninstall()/pkg_rollback(): acquire the per-package install lock
  in addition to the installed-db lock, drop the entry from the
  authoritative database first, and only then remove payload files -
  a crash between those two steps can leave orphaned files, which are
  reclaimable, but never leaves the database pointing at a payload
  that's already gone.

- pkg_sync(): stage each sync to a PID-qualified temp filename instead
  of a single fixed name, so concurrent sync calls can no longer race
  on the same staging file. Return real negative errno codes instead
  of EXIT_SUCCESS/EXIT_FAILURE, matching the rest of this API; pkg_main.c
  maps that back to a process exit code at the CLI boundary.

- pkg_metadata_parse_installed_entry(): validate that name/current/
  previous/every entry in versions[] are safe path components, and that
  current (and previous, if set) actually appear in versions[] - a
  corrupted or tampered installed-packages database can no longer
  reference a nonexistent version or smuggle a path-traversal sequence
  through a field this code already trusted implicitly.

- pkg_store_write_all()/pkg_repo_sink(): treat a zero-byte write() as
  -EIO instead of looping on it silently.

- Removed the malloc()-falls-back-to-kmm_malloc() logic in pkg_malloc/
  pkg_zalloc/pkg_realloc/pkg_free entirely - it required tracking which
  allocator owned a given pointer via kmm_heapmember(), which is
  specific to this target's flat, single-heap memory model and not a
  sound general application API. These are now plain wrappers around
  malloc/calloc/realloc/free.

- Added pkg_metadata_load_manifest_path(), so a caller (e.g. the
  nxstore GUI frontend, launching an installed package) can load the
  manifest actually recorded for a specific installed version, instead
  of combining a rollback-selected version with whatever the current
  catalog happens to describe for that package name - those can
  disagree after a rollback if the catalog has since moved on.

- Storage root default changed from /tmp/nxpkg to /var/lib/nxpkg,
  following the conventional persistent application-data location
  instead of a path whose own name suggests non-persistent storage. A
  board without persistent storage mounted at /var, or that wants a
  different location (e.g. an SD card), still overrides this via
  CONFIG_SYSTEM_NXPKG_ROOT as before.

- Moved system/nxpkg/README.txt into the companion NuttX documentation
  PR rather than shipping user-facing documentation as an in-tree
  README.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5
Signed-off-by: aviralgarg05 <gargaviral99@gmail.com>
- pkg_sync(): index.jsn and repo.url were updated as two independent
  atomic writes with nothing serializing the pair against a second,
  concurrent pkg_sync() call - each write stayed internally
  consistent, but the pair didn't, so one sync's index could end up on
  disk next to a different sync's source URL. Add a dedicated sync
  lock (pkg_repo_acquire_sync_lock(), mirroring the existing installed-
  db lock's blocking-retry-with-stale-reclaim pattern) around the
  whole read-fetch-write sequence. Also renew the lock's mtime as data
  actually arrives (pkg_repo_sink(), via a new renew_lock_path field
  threaded through pkg_acquire_source()) rather than only stamping it
  once at acquire time - a lock acquired once and then measured
  against a fixed 10-minute staleness window could otherwise be
  reclaimed mid-download on a large-enough file over a slow-enough
  link, even though the download was still genuinely in progress.
  pkg_reclaim_stale_lock() (renamed from pkg_install_reclaim_stale_lock,
  made public) is shared between both lock kinds rather than
  duplicated.

- pkg_install_prune_oldest_version(): deleted the pruned version's
  on-disk payload directory before the updated installed database was
  even durably saved. If pkg_metadata_save_installed() subsequently
  failed, the payload was already gone but the last successfully-saved
  instpkg.jsn could still list that version as installed. The victim
  version is now handed back to the caller (threaded through
  pkg_install_add_version()/pkg_install_update_installed()) so
  pkg_install() can defer the actual directory removal until after the
  save succeeds.

- pkg_metadata_version_token_cmp(): two version tokens with equal
  numeric prefixes (e.g. "1a" and "1b", both parsing as 1) compared as
  equal instead of falling back to a lexical comparison of what
  follows the number, contradicting this function's own documented
  behavior and silently treating genuinely different versions as the
  same one. Compare the non-numeric remainder lexically when the
  numeric prefixes match instead of falling through.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5
Signed-off-by: aviralgarg05 <gargaviral99@gmail.com>
Shorten the installed-database lock description and centralize pkg_sync() cleanup, as requested in review. Replace repeated protocol literals with named constants and preserve errno before cleanup calls can overwrite it.

Store the synchronized catalog source in the catalog itself so the catalog and its relative-artifact base are committed atomically. Continue reading the former sidecar format for upgrade compatibility, and normalize array-form catalogs before adding the private source field.

Compare numeric version prefixes without strtol() overflow and retain lexical comparison of suffixes.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: aviralgarg05 <gargaviral99@gmail.com>
Record a per-boot token and owner PID in every package, installed-database, and synchronization lock. A contender now keeps a lock held while its recorded owner task is alive, regardless of unreliable FAT modification timestamps.

Reclaim locks from exited owners or earlier boots immediately, while retaining timestamp-based migration handling for legacy empty lock files. This prevents a just-created live lock from being mistaken for a decades-old stale file on targets whose mounted filesystem clock does not match CLOCK_REALTIME.

Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Signed-off-by: aviralgarg05 <gargaviral99@gmail.com>
Add nxstore, an LVGL-based frontend for nxpkg (system/nxpkg): lists
packages from the local index, installs/launches the selected one,
and supervises whatever it hands the screen to.

Card-based app list (populate_app_list()): each row shows name,
version, and description/status, install/launch state reflected via
icon glyph and color (LV_SYMBOL_DOWNLOAD/PLAY, accent/success color),
and a sliding-segment progress bar during install (no real byte-level
progress is available from pkg_install(), so this reads as
'actively working' without fabricating a percentage). Explicit
LV_STATE_PRESSED styling on every tappable row/button, since no LVGL
theme is loaded and a tap would otherwise give no visual feedback at
all.

Supervisor screen (build_run_screen()/nxstore_enter_running_screen()):
a launched app (e.g. a game that owns /dev/fb0 directly, not just
another LVGL client) gets a dedicated screen with a name label and a
Close button, confined to the border region the launched app's own
scaled/centered framebuffer output never draws into, so switching
back to it doesn't fight over pixels with whatever the app already
put in the framebuffer.

Close/reap handling (close_running_app_event_cb()/
nxstore_poll_running_app()): sends SIGTERM and polls waitpid(WNOHANG)
for the launched pid, but explicitly also treats waitpid() returning
ECHILD as 'already gone' rather than 'still running' - both the
close-button handler and the passive per-loop poll independently race
to reap the same child, so whichever one loses that race must not
spin forever waiting for a wait() that can now never succeed. Requires
the target app to install its own SIGTERM handler to exit cleanly
(this is why there is no generic force-kill fallback here: an
earlier version of this code called task_delete() when SIGTERM wasn't
reaped quickly enough, which was found on real hardware to hang the
entire board - not just the one task - when it landed mid
framebuffer/heap access on this flat-memory build).

Toast notifications (nxstore_toast()) provide a transient, unmissable
confirmation for install/uninstall/launch outcomes and app-closed
events, additive to the durable per-row subtitle text rather than a
replacement for it.

nxstore's own boot-time catalog sync waits (bounded, 15s) on
g_wifi_dhcp_ret before attempting a network fetch, since Wi-Fi
association completing doesn't imply DHCP has - an HTTP fetch
attempted in that window fails with -ENETUNREACH even though the
link itself is already up, indistinguishable from being genuinely
offline without this wait.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5
Signed-off-by: aviralgarg05 <gargaviral99@gmail.com>
Review/hardening findings from the companion nxpkg PRs:

- Own framebuffer/input device paths instead of borrowing
  CONFIG_EXAMPLES_LVGLDEMO_FBDEVPATH/INPUT_DEVPATH from an unrelated
  example app: new CONFIG_SYSTEM_NXSTORE_FBDEVPATH/INPUT_DEVPATH
  Kconfig string options (defaulting to /dev/fb0 and /dev/input0).

- g_index moves from a static struct to a heap-allocated
  FAR struct pkg_index_s * (pkg_zalloc()), with a "Not enough memory to
  load the catalog." UI fallback if the allocation fails.

- nxstore_launch() now loads the specific installed version's manifest
  via pkg_metadata_load_manifest_path() instead of combining a
  rollback-selected version with whatever the current catalog entry
  happens to describe for that name - those can disagree after a
  rollback if the catalog has since moved on. Also passes through the
  installed manifest's launch_args/launch_argc (previously always
  argv[1] = NULL).

- title_text buffer sized PKG_NAME_MAX + PKG_VERSION_MAX + 5 instead of
  a fixed 96, fixing a real compiler truncation warning.

- README.txt moved to the companion NuttX documentation PR rather than
  shipping user-facing documentation as an in-tree README.

Bugs found bringing this up on real hardware:

- LV_EVENT_LONG_PRESSED could fire for a touch that was actually
  driving a scroll of the app list: if a drag starts slowly enough
  that the long-press timer (400ms) elapses before the finger crosses
  the scroll-lock distance, LVGL hasn't committed the gesture to
  scrolling yet and still delivers the long-press event, silently
  uninstalling whatever card the touch happened to land on. Ignore the
  long-press if this input device is currently attributed to scrolling
  any object (lv_indev_get_scroll_obj()).

- Tapping an installed-app card to launch it, while a different
  install was in progress elsewhere in the list (or another app was
  already running), was allowed through unconditionally - install_worker()
  auto-launches its own package once done, and letting a second launch
  through independently meant whichever one finished last silently
  overwrote g_running, leaving the other process alive, unsupervised,
  and drawing into the same shared framebuffer with no way to close it
  from this UI again. Both the direct-launch and fresh-install paths in
  install_btn_event_cb() now refuse (with a toast) if g_running.active
  or g_active.manifest indicate another app is already running or about
  to be.

- nxstore_is_installed() only checked the package *name*, not which
  version was actually on disk - an older installed version showed as
  plain "Installed" identically to a current one, and tapping it
  silently launched the stale payload with no update indication or
  action. Add nxstore_is_up_to_date() (compares the installed version
  against the catalog's latest manifest) and a third status_bar color
  (in addition to not-installed/up-to-date) plus a "Update available -
  tap to update" subtitle for the mismatch case; tapping such a card
  now goes through the install path (which fetches and auto-launches
  the newly installed version) instead of the direct-launch path.

- lv_indev_set_scroll_limit() was set to 255 (copied from examples/
  lvgldemo/lvgldemo.c, whose own touch-drift mitigation this file
  reused), requiring a nearly-full-screen drag before a touch was even
  recognized as a scroll gesture. Unlike that demo, this screen's app
  list is scrolled constantly, and a threshold that large read as
  broken/laggy scrolling rather than drift protection. Lowered to 20,
  enough to reject typical touch-driver jitter while still recognizing
  a real scroll almost immediately; momentum stays off (scroll_throw
  0), which is what the dual-launch/scroll-lock fixes above actually
  depend on, not the gesture-start threshold.

Also adds nxstore_load_icon(): best-effort loads and caches a
package's optional icon (manifest->icon) as a raw RGB565 image LVGL
can render with no decoder (this board has no PNG/JPEG decode
capability), falling back to the existing colored-circle-plus-glyph
rendering on any failure (no icon set, download failed, corrupt/
oversized file) so a bad icon never blocks a package from being
listed or installed.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5
Signed-off-by: aviralgarg05 <gargaviral99@gmail.com>
Remove the dependency on an ESP-specific DHCP global. Retry catalog synchronization for a bounded period only while the network stack reports readiness-related errors, allowing the same frontend to work with Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and other boards.

Keep the LVGL timer serviced between attempts so the interface remains responsive while the network comes up.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: aviralgarg05 <gargaviral99@gmail.com>
Use nxstore-owned framebuffer and input configuration symbols instead of relying on an unrelated LVGL demo configuration.

Load the manifest for the installed version before launching it, validate that it matches the installed database entry, and pass its recorded arguments to posix_spawn(). Check spawn-attribute setup errors as well.

Add the shared supervisor-bar height header to the nxstore change itself so the branch builds independently and framebuffer applications can follow the required reserved-strip contract.

Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5
Signed-off-by: aviralgarg05 <gargaviral99@gmail.com>
Keep the list behavior documentation consistent with the 20-pixel threshold used by the tested implementation.

Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Signed-off-by: aviralgarg05 <gargaviral99@gmail.com>
Read cached icons completely, validate the RGB565 format and exact payload size, and discard corrupt cache entries so a later launch can retry acquisition.

Key the local cache by package name and version so a catalog update cannot silently reuse an older icon.

Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Signed-off-by: aviralgarg05 <gargaviral99@gmail.com>
Add a calculator example that can run as either a built-in application or loadable module. It uses configurable framebuffer and touchscreen paths, reserves the nxstore supervisor bar, and exits cooperatively on SIGTERM.

Validate display, touchscreen, and signal-handler setup before entering the LVGL loop. Reset static state on every invocation so built-in relaunches behave like fresh module loads.

Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Signed-off-by: aviralgarg05 <gargaviral99@gmail.com>
Allow cgol, match4, and snake to be selected as loadable modules while preserving built-in builds in both Make and CMake.

For cgol, use a safer 4 KiB default stack, fix the FBIO_UPDATE area object, add an optional top-row offset for launcher controls, and handle SIGTERM cooperatively. Validate physical and virtual framebuffer dimensions and release mapped or allocated buffers on every exit path.

Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Signed-off-by: aviralgarg05 <gargaviral99@gmail.com>
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