Re: [PATCH v4 17/18] kernel/sysctl-test: Add null pointer test for sysctl.c:proc_dointvec()

Stephen Boyd
2019-06-07T19:00:50Z

Quoting Iurii Zaikin (2019-06-05 18:29:42)
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 11:22 AM Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Quoting Brendan Higgins (2019-05-14 15:17:10)
> > > diff --git a/kernel/sysctl-test.c b/kernel/sysctl-test.c
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 0000000000000..fe0f2bae66085
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/kernel/sysctl-test.c
> > > +
> > > +
> > > +static void sysctl_test_dointvec_happy_single_negative(struct kunit *test)
> > > +{
> > > + struct ctl_table table = {
> > > + .procname = "foo",
> > > + .data = &test_data.int_0001,
> > > + .maxlen = sizeof(int),
> > > + .mode = 0644,
> > > + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
> > > + .extra1 = &i_zero,
> > > + .extra2 = &i_one_hundred,
> > > + };
> > > + char input[] = "-9";
> > > + size_t len = sizeof(input) - 1;
> > > + loff_t pos = 0;
> > > +
> > > + table.data = kunit_kzalloc(test, sizeof(int), GFP_USER);
> > > + KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, 0, proc_dointvec(&table, 1, input, &len, &pos));
> > > + KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, sizeof(input) - 1, len);
> > > + KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, sizeof(input) - 1, pos);
> > > + KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test, -9, *(int *)table.data);
> >
> > Is the casting necessary? Or can the macro do a type coercion of the
> > second parameter based on the first type?
> Data field is defined as void* so I believe casting is necessary to
> dereference it as a pointer to an array of ints. I don't think the
> macro should do any type coercion that == operator wouldn't do.
> I did change the cast to make it more clear that it's a pointer to an
> array of ints being dereferenced.

Ok, I still wonder if we should make KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ check the types on
both sides and cause a build warning/error if the types aren't the same.
This would be similar to our min/max macros that complain about
mismatched types in the comparisons. Then if a test developer needs to
convert one type or the other they could do so with a
KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ_T() macro that lists the types to coerce both sides to
explicitly.