Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] kunit: make kunit_kfree() not segfault on invalid inputs

[Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 1:15 PM Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com> wrote:
>
> kunit_kfree() can only work on data ("resources") allocated by KUnit.
>
> Currently for code like this,
> > void *ptr = kmalloc(4, GFP_KERNEL);
> > kunit_kfree(test, ptr);
> kunit_kfree() will segfault.
>
> It'll try and look up the kunit_resource associated with `ptr` and get a
> NULL back, but it won't check for this. This means we also segfault if
> you double-free.
>
> Change kunit_kfree() so it'll notice these invalid pointers and respond
> by failing the test.
>
> Implementation: kunit_destroy_resource() does what kunit_kfree() does,
> but is more generic and returns -ENOENT when it can't find the resource.
> Sadly, unlike just letting it crash, this means we don't get a stack
> trace. But kunit_kfree() is so infrequently used it shouldn't be hard to
> track down the bad callsite anyways.
>
> After this change, the above code gives:
> > # example_simple_test: EXPECTATION FAILED at lib/kunit/test.c:702
> > kunit_kfree: 00000000626ec200 already freed or not allocated by kunit
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>