controller_unit_test crashed deterministically in write_WalCatchupEntry
(test_wal_catchup_append_term_fields_round_trip) -- the same bug class
as bug-1504 (SnapshotData.internalState): this codebase's capnpc-c
backend silently no-ops Data-field encoding in generated encode_XXX()
composite helpers without zero-initializing the caller's local struct
first, leaving an uninitialized capn_ptr written onto the wire.
Confirmed zero production exposure before fixing: xce_wal_batch_encode_
raw()/wal_entry_to_wire() (request.c) never call the generic
encode_WalCatchupEntry() at all -- they memset() their own struct and
call write_WalCatchupEntry() directly with every field hand-set, so
this was 100% test-only exposure (grepped every caller of the generic
encode/decode pair; only the crashing test uses it).
Fix mirrors bug-1504: WalCatchupEntry.payload (@2) and batchPayloads
(@10) switched from Data to List(UInt8) in controller.capnp (new
batchPayloadsLen @11 companion; payload reuses the existing
wirePayloadLen @9), typemap.h's wal_catchup_entry_t field types
updated, and request.c's extract_data_bytes() widened to take a raw
capn_ptr (it already only used .p internally) so its call sites work
regardless of which Data-shaped wrapper the generated accessor
returns now. batchPayloads' single-top-level-blob shape confirmed
this does not reintroduce bug-847's per-element cross-segment
far-pointer loss -- that issue is inherent to per-element data
regardless of Data vs List(UInt8) spelling.
Strengthened test_wal_catchup_append_term_fields_round_trip with real
payload/batchPayloads content assertions -- previously never
exercised, since the test's src fields were left NULL.
Verified: controller suite 3/3 (was 2/3, crashing), scheduler suite
unaffected at 37/37 (unrelated schema area).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JPPXeKSUXUqcqvzNXY1rzJ
