The Silent Killer: Stack Overflow in a System With No Stack Protector
No log. No crash dump. No pattern. Just a system that stops existing, and a much longer list of suspects than the one that turned out to be guilty.
Bare-metal drivers, RTOS scheduling, and the bugs that only show up at -40°C.

No log. No crash dump. No pattern. Just a system that stops existing, and a much longer list of suspects than the one that turned out to be guilty.

Five rules, two sides each, and the verdict our team actually ships with.

Priority inheritance is not automatic. Three real incidents and how we caught them.

A three-week hunt through a race condition between an ISR and a flash write routine.