Different platforms evaluate `printf()` for NULL pointers differently,
resulting tests checking for a certain output to fail. This unifies that
(debug) output for the static packet buffer statistics.
Size 0 snips are legal packet snips (empty payload e.g.) so it doesn't
make sense to issue an error in the write-protection in that case.
API documentation doesn't mention it either and the tests still pass
with the check removed.
This fixes an alignment issue I encountered in the static version of
the packet buffer.
The bug is caused by a race-condition where a certain order of
operations leads to a chunk being released according to the
byte-alignment of the platform, but overlapping potential space for
a future `_unused_t` struct e.g. (x mark allocated regions):
Future leak of size sizeof(_unused_t) Time
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Sadly, I wasn't able to create a reproducable unittest that show-cases
this corner-case, since I don't understand the order of operations that
cause this one 100%, but the bug is reproducable (but also not
reliably) by sending large (i.e. fragmented) packets to a 6Lo-enabled
host from more than 1 host simultaneously (use `gnrc_pktbuf_cmd` to
check).
By making the size of `_unused_t` the only condition for alignment,
this bug is fixed.
The packet buffer was originally designed to have a replaceable
back-end. This is why the actual module is called `gnrc_pktbuf_static`.
However, since than some auxiliary functions snuck into the static
back-end, which should go into the common module (which is a
pseudo-module at the moment).
This fix makes the `gnrc_pktbuf` pseudo-module an actual module and
moves the auxiliary functions to that module.
This patch fixes overflow, which is caused by
(pkt->size - aligned_size). This happens if pkt->size and
new size are unaligned and the difference
between pkt->size and new size is less than four.
