Re: [PATCH] kunit: fix too small allocation when using suite-only kunit.filter_glob

[Brendan Higgins]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 6:36 PM Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When a user filters by a suite and not a test, e.g.
> $ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run 'suite_name'
>
> it hits this code
>   const int len = strlen(filter_glob);
>   ...
>   parsed->suite_glob = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
> which fails to allocate space for the terminating NULL.
>
> Somehow, it seems like we can't easily reproduce this under UML, so the
> existing `parse_filter_test()` didn't catch this.
>
> Fix this by allocating `len + 1` and switch to kzalloc() just to be a
> bit more defensive. We're only going to run this code once per kernel
> boot, and it should never be very long.
>
> Also update the unit tests to be a bit more cautious.
> This bug showed up as a NULL pointer dereference here:
> >  KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ(test, (const char *)filtered.start[0][0]->name, "suite0");
> `filtered.start[0][0]` was NULL, and `name` is at offset 0 in the struct,
> so `...->name` was also NULL.
>
> Fixes: 3b29021ddd10 ("kunit: tool: allow filtering test cases via glob")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@xxxxxxxxxx>