Re: [PATCH 3/9] string: Add Kunit tests for strcat() family

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Apr 06 2023 - 19:07:44 EST


On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 11:11:09AM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> > +static void strncat_test(struct kunit *test)
> > +{
> > + char dest[8];
> > +
> > + /* Destination is terminated. */
> > + memset(dest, 0, sizeof(dest));
> > + KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, strlen(dest), 0);
> > + /* Empty copy of size 0 does nothing. */
> > + KUNIT_EXPECT_TRUE(test, strncat(dest, "", 0) == dest);
> > + KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ(test, dest, "");
> > + /* Empty copy of size 1 does nothing too. */
> > + KUNIT_EXPECT_TRUE(test, strncat(dest, "", 1) == dest);
> > + KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ(test, dest, "");
> > + /* Copy of max 0 characters should do nothing. */
> > + KUNIT_EXPECT_TRUE(test, strncat(dest, "asdf", 0) == dest);
> > + KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ(test, dest, "");
> > +
> > + /* 4 characters copied in, even if max is 8. */
> > + KUNIT_EXPECT_TRUE(test, strncat(dest, "four\000123", 8) == dest);
> > + KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ(test, dest, "four");
> > + KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, dest[5], '\0');
>
> Maybe also add a test case for strncat(dest, "four", 4) that checks
> that the fourth byte of dest is not 0?

I think I don't understand what state you want to test for? The line
above (STREQ is checking dest is "four". Maybe I should check for
dest[6] being 0 as well as dest[5]. But if that's not what you mean, I'm
not sure. Is it something here:

char dest[16];
memset(dest, 0, sizeof(dest));
// dest == ""
strncat(dest, "four", 4);
// dest == "four"
strncat(dest, "four", 4);
// dest == "fourfour"

strncat's "n" is how much to reach from source -- dest will always be
terminated.

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Kees Cook