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[v3,1/2] kunit: drop assumption in kunit-log-test about current suite

Message ID 20210831171926.3832806-1-dlatypov@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New
Delegated to: Brendan Higgins
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Series [v3,1/2] kunit: drop assumption in kunit-log-test about current suite | expand

Commit Message

Daniel Latypov Aug. 31, 2021, 5:19 p.m. UTC
This test assumes that the declared kunit_suite object is the exact one
which is being executed, which KUnit will not guarantee [1].

Specifically, `suite->log` is not initialized until a suite object is
executed. So if KUnit makes a copy of the suite and runs that instead,
this test dereferences an invalid pointer and (hopefully) segfaults.

N.B. since we no longer assume this, we can no longer verify that
`suite->log` is *not* allocated during normal execution.

An alternative to this patch that would allow us to test that would
require exposing an API for the current test to get its current suite.
Exposing that for one internal kunit test seems like overkill, and
grants users more footguns (e.g. reusing a test case in multiple suites
and changing behavior based on the suite name, dynamically modifying the
setup/cleanup funcs, storing/reading stuff out of the suite->log, etc.).

[1] In a subsequent patch, KUnit will allow running subsets of test
cases within a suite by making a copy of the suite w/ the filtered test
list. But there are other reasons KUnit might execute a copy, e.g. if it
ever wants to support parallel execution of different suites, recovering
from errors and restarting suites

Signed-off-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>
---
 lib/kunit/kunit-test.c | 14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


base-commit: 9c849ce86e0fa93a218614eac562ace44053d7ce

Comments

Brendan Higgins Aug. 31, 2021, 8:42 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 10:19 AM Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com> wrote:
>
> This test assumes that the declared kunit_suite object is the exact one
> which is being executed, which KUnit will not guarantee [1].
>
> Specifically, `suite->log` is not initialized until a suite object is
> executed. So if KUnit makes a copy of the suite and runs that instead,
> this test dereferences an invalid pointer and (hopefully) segfaults.
>
> N.B. since we no longer assume this, we can no longer verify that
> `suite->log` is *not* allocated during normal execution.
>
> An alternative to this patch that would allow us to test that would
> require exposing an API for the current test to get its current suite.
> Exposing that for one internal kunit test seems like overkill, and
> grants users more footguns (e.g. reusing a test case in multiple suites
> and changing behavior based on the suite name, dynamically modifying the
> setup/cleanup funcs, storing/reading stuff out of the suite->log, etc.).
>
> [1] In a subsequent patch, KUnit will allow running subsets of test
> cases within a suite by making a copy of the suite w/ the filtered test
> list. But there are other reasons KUnit might execute a copy, e.g. if it
> ever wants to support parallel execution of different suites, recovering
> from errors and restarting suites
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
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diff --git a/lib/kunit/kunit-test.c b/lib/kunit/kunit-test.c
index d69efcbed624..555601d17f79 100644
--- a/lib/kunit/kunit-test.c
+++ b/lib/kunit/kunit-test.c
@@ -415,12 +415,15 @@  static struct kunit_suite kunit_log_test_suite = {
 
 static void kunit_log_test(struct kunit *test)
 {
-	struct kunit_suite *suite = &kunit_log_test_suite;
+	struct kunit_suite suite;
+
+	suite.log = kunit_kzalloc(test, KUNIT_LOG_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	KUNIT_ASSERT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test, suite.log);
 
 	kunit_log(KERN_INFO, test, "put this in log.");
 	kunit_log(KERN_INFO, test, "this too.");
-	kunit_log(KERN_INFO, suite, "add to suite log.");
-	kunit_log(KERN_INFO, suite, "along with this.");
+	kunit_log(KERN_INFO, &suite, "add to suite log.");
+	kunit_log(KERN_INFO, &suite, "along with this.");
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KUNIT_DEBUGFS
 	KUNIT_EXPECT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test,
@@ -428,12 +431,11 @@  static void kunit_log_test(struct kunit *test)
 	KUNIT_EXPECT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test,
 				     strstr(test->log, "this too."));
 	KUNIT_EXPECT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test,
-				     strstr(suite->log, "add to suite log."));
+				     strstr(suite.log, "add to suite log."));
 	KUNIT_EXPECT_NOT_ERR_OR_NULL(test,
-				     strstr(suite->log, "along with this."));
+				     strstr(suite.log, "along with this."));
 #else
 	KUNIT_EXPECT_PTR_EQ(test, test->log, (char *)NULL);
-	KUNIT_EXPECT_PTR_EQ(test, suite->log, (char *)NULL);
 #endif
 }