[RFC PATCH bpf-next 5/6] selftests/bpf: Exercise word-at-a-time string kfuncs
From: Leon Hwang
Date: Tue Jul 28 2026 - 11:20:25 EST
Add functional coverage for aligned and unaligned strings across
the scan, comparison, span, and substring families. Cover matches and
mismatches beyond the first word as well as the length-limited substring
suffix rule.
Use aligned invalid kernel addresses to exercise a failed
word-sized nofault load and its byte-sized retry.
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
.../bpf/progs/string_kfuncs_failure1.c | 58 +++++++++++++
.../bpf/progs/string_kfuncs_success.c | 86 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 144 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/string_kfuncs_failure1.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/string_kfuncs_failure1.c
index bddc4e8579d2..05f93c7cd07c 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/string_kfuncs_failure1.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/string_kfuncs_failure1.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
char *user_ptr = (char *)1;
char *invalid_kern_ptr = (char *)-1;
+char *invalid_aligned_kern_ptr = (char *)-8;
/*
* When passing userspace pointers, the error code differs based on arch:
@@ -108,4 +109,61 @@ SEC("syscall") __retval(-EFAULT) int test_strnstr_pagefault2(void *ctx) { return
SEC("syscall") __retval(-EFAULT) int test_strncasestr_pagefault1(void *ctx) { return bpf_strncasestr(invalid_kern_ptr, "hello", 1); }
SEC("syscall") __retval(-EFAULT) int test_strncasestr_pagefault2(void *ctx) { return bpf_strncasestr("hello", invalid_kern_ptr, 1); }
+/* Exercise word-load faults and the byte retry at the same address. */
+SEC("syscall")
+__retval(-EFAULT)
+int test_strncasecmp_word_pagefault(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strncasecmp(invalid_aligned_kern_ptr, "12345678", 8);
+}
+
+SEC("syscall")
+__retval(-EFAULT)
+int test_strnchr_word_pagefault(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strnchr(invalid_aligned_kern_ptr, 8, 'a');
+}
+
+SEC("syscall")
+__retval(-EFAULT)
+int test_strrchr_word_pagefault(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strrchr(invalid_aligned_kern_ptr, 'a');
+}
+
+SEC("syscall")
+__retval(-EFAULT)
+int test_strnlen_word_pagefault(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strnlen(invalid_aligned_kern_ptr, 8);
+}
+
+SEC("syscall")
+__retval(-EFAULT)
+int test_strspn_word_pagefault(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strspn(invalid_aligned_kern_ptr, "a");
+}
+
+SEC("syscall")
+__retval(-EFAULT)
+int test_strspn_set_word_pagefault(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strspn("a", invalid_aligned_kern_ptr);
+}
+
+SEC("syscall")
+__retval(-EFAULT)
+int test_strnstr_word_pagefault1(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strnstr(invalid_aligned_kern_ptr, "12345678", 8);
+}
+
+SEC("syscall")
+__retval(-EFAULT)
+int test_strnstr_word_pagefault2(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strnstr("12345678", invalid_aligned_kern_ptr, 8);
+}
+
char _license[] SEC("license") = "GPL";
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/string_kfuncs_success.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/string_kfuncs_success.c
index f65b1226a81a..ec72410e17a1 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/string_kfuncs_success.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/string_kfuncs_success.c
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@
#include "errno.h"
char str[] = "hello world";
+char aligned_str[] __aligned(8) = "0123456789abcdef0123456789ABCDEF";
+char unaligned_str[] __aligned(8) = "_0123456789abcdef0123456789ABCDEF";
+char scan_order[] __aligned(8) = { 'a', 'H', '\0', 'H', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x' };
+char compare_order1[] __aligned(8) = { 'a', 'b', '\0', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x' };
+char compare_order2[] __aligned(8) = { 'a', 'b', '\0', 'y', 'y', 'y', 'y', 'y' };
#define __test(retval) SEC("syscall") __success __retval(retval)
@@ -60,4 +65,85 @@ __test(-ENOENT) int test_strncasestr_notfound2(void *ctx) { return bpf_strncases
__test(-ENOENT) int test_strncasestr_notfound3(void *ctx) { return bpf_strncasestr("", "a", 0); }
__test(0) int test_strncasestr_empty(void *ctx) { return bpf_strncasestr(str, "", 1); }
+/* Exercise aligned word loads, mask ordering, and unaligned prefixes. */
+__test(30) int test_strnchr_word(void *ctx) { return bpf_strnchr(aligned_str, 32, 'E'); }
+
+__test(1) int test_strnchr_word_before_null(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strnchr(scan_order, sizeof(scan_order), 'H');
+}
+
+__test(-ENOENT) int test_strnchr_word_after_null(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strnchr(scan_order, sizeof(scan_order), 'x');
+}
+
+__test(2) int test_strchrnul_word_after_null(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strchrnul(scan_order, 'x');
+}
+
+__test(1) int test_strrchr_word_after_null(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strrchr(scan_order, 'H');
+}
+
+__test(2) int test_strnlen_word_null(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strnlen(scan_order, sizeof(scan_order));
+}
+
+__test(32) int test_strlen_word(void *ctx) { return bpf_strlen(aligned_str); }
+
+__test(0) int test_strcmp_word(void *ctx) { return bpf_strcmp(aligned_str, unaligned_str + 1); }
+
+__test(0) int test_strcmp_word_after_null(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strcmp(compare_order1, compare_order2);
+}
+
+__test(-1) int test_strcmp_word_mismatch(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strcmp(aligned_str, "0123456789abcdef1123456789abcdef");
+}
+
+__test(32) int test_strspn_word(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strspn(aligned_str, "0123456789abcdefABCDEF");
+}
+
+__test(0) int test_strspn_word_set_after_null(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strspn("xx", scan_order);
+}
+
+__test(30) int test_strcspn_word(void *ctx) { return bpf_strcspn(unaligned_str + 1, "E"); }
+
+__test(16) int test_strstr_word(void *ctx) { return bpf_strstr(aligned_str, "0123456789ABCDEF"); }
+
+__test(16) int test_strstr_unaligned(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strstr(unaligned_str + 1, "0123456789ABCDEF");
+}
+
+__test(15) int test_strcasestr_word(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strcasestr(aligned_str, "F0123456789ABCDEF");
+}
+
+__test(0) int test_strnstr_word_suffix(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strnstr(aligned_str, "0123456789abcdef", 16);
+}
+
+__test(-ENOENT) int test_strnstr_word_truncated(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strnstr(aligned_str, "0123456789abcdef0", 16);
+}
+
+__test(0) int test_strnstr_word_after_null(void *ctx)
+{
+ return bpf_strnstr(compare_order1, compare_order2, sizeof(compare_order1));
+}
+
char _license[] SEC("license") = "GPL";
--
2.55.0