Fix/ny msize dse expansion (#565)

Bug found by @jubnzv:

`--newyork`: dead-store elimination could drop a store whose memory
expansion an intervening `msize()` observes, so `msize()` read a stale
(unexpanded) value.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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/// Soundness PoC (newyork dead-store elimination vs `msize`): a store whose
/// memory expansion an intervening `msize()` observes must not be eliminated as
/// dead by a later overwrite.
///
/// `mstore(288, 1)` writes `[288, 320)`, expanding active memory to `0x140`.
/// `msize()` between the two stores must observe that expansion (`0x140`). The
/// dead-store pass dropped the first store because `mstore(288, 2)` overwrites
/// the same offset — but that moved the expansion to *after* the `msize()`, so
/// `msize()` read the smaller (unexpanded) value `0`. EVM (and the stock
/// pipeline) return `0x140`. The fix clears the dead-store candidate set when an
/// `msize()` is evaluated, since it observes the cumulative memory expansion of
/// all prior stores.
object "MsizeDseBug" {
code { datacopy(0, dataoffset("MsizeDseBug_deployed"), datasize("MsizeDseBug_deployed")) return(0, datasize("MsizeDseBug_deployed")) }
object "MsizeDseBug_deployed" {
code {
mstore(288, 1)
let r := msize()
mstore(288, 2)
mstore(0, r)
return(0, 32)
}
}
}
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}
}
/// Regression (newyork dead-store elimination vs `msize`): a store whose memory
/// expansion an intervening `msize()` observes must not be eliminated as dead.
/// `mstore(288, 1); let r := msize(); mstore(288, 2)` — the dead-store pass
/// dropped the first store as overwritten by the second, moving the memory
/// expansion to after the `msize()`, so `r` read the smaller value `0` instead of
/// `0x140`. The fix clears the dead-store candidate set at an `msize()`, which
/// observes the cumulative expansion of all prior stores. Compared newyork-PVM
/// vs solc-EVM.
#[test]
fn msize_observes_dead_store_expansion() {
let mut actions = instantiate_yul("contracts/MsizeDseBug.yul", "MsizeDseBug");
actions.push(Call {
origin: TestAddress::Alice,
dest: TestAddress::Instantiated(0),
value: 0,
gas_limit: Some(GAS_LIMIT),
storage_deposit_limit: None,
data: vec![],
});
run_differential(actions);
}
/// Regression (newyork FMP range proof): a `calldatacopy` whose *dynamic*
/// destination can land on the free-memory-pointer word `[0x40, 0x60)` corrupts
/// the FMP, but only *static* copy destinations flagged `fmp_could_be_unbounded`.