Bugfix communication.cpp : guard against buffer[-1] when newline is first byte#6
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Problem
software_stm32/src/communication.cpp:207accessesbuffer[c-1]without checking thatc > 0:When
c == 0and the first byte happens to be\n,buffer[c-1]readsbuffer[-1]— out of bounds. This is undefined behaviour per the C/C++ standard.In practice it is unlikely (the outer guard
if (buflen >= 5)and the convention that ESP32 sends\r\nmake a leading\nrare), but it can happen on UART glitches, partial frames, or right after reset. On STM32 this typically reads stack/heap memory that happens to sit just beforebuffer, so the comparison may spuriously succeed and the code then writes'\0'to that out-of-bounds location too — silent memory corruption.Fix
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c > 0 &&to the condition. One-line defensive guard.