[LTP] [PATCH v2 2/3] check: Add LTP-005 null termination check on test.tags

Richard Palethorpe rpalethorpe@suse.com
Tue Dec 7 11:29:03 CET 2021


This only adds a check for test.tags. There are other null terminated
arrays which would benefit from this check. However these appear to be
accessed on every invocation of a test. So missing the null sentinel
value will reliably result in a segfault.

This check should be relatively easy to generalise. However this would
still complicate this initial commit. Other types and variables
produce different ASTs even if the concrete syntax looks
similar.

This does not explicitly check for zero at the end of an array. For
one thing the zero is implicit when one writes '{}'. We just get an
empty expression list. When one writes 'NULL', we get an implicit cast
to '$a_type *'. Currently we only handle '{}' as this is what
test.tags requires. Using '{NULL, NULL}' is semantically equivalent to
'{}', but it simplifies things to only accept '{}'.

Perhaps surprisingly the following will be checked for null
termination correctly:

static struct tst_tag tags[] = { ..., {} };

static struct tst_test test = {
       .tags = tags,
       ...
}

There is some logic in the code which is particularly baffling

	if (item_init->type == EXPR_POS)
		item_init = item_init->init_expr;

This helps with the above case as for some reason we only see EXPR_POS
when test.tags are initialized inline.

		if (entry->init_expr->type != EXPR_SYMBOL)
			continue;

This prevents a segfault when we encounter test.timeout which is
represented with an immediate value (EXPR_VALUE). The more corner
cases we need to handle the more lines like this appear.

Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
---
 tools/sparse/sparse-ltp.c | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 84 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/sparse/sparse-ltp.c b/tools/sparse/sparse-ltp.c
index b1677d336..3a38229f1 100644
--- a/tools/sparse/sparse-ltp.c
+++ b/tools/sparse/sparse-ltp.c
@@ -126,10 +126,94 @@ static void check_symbol_visibility(const struct symbol *const sym)
 		name);
 }
 
+/* See base_type() in dissect.c */
+static struct symbol *unwrap_base_type(const struct symbol *sym)
+{
+	switch (sym->ctype.base_type->type) {
+	case SYM_ARRAY:
+	case SYM_NODE:
+	case SYM_PTR:
+		return unwrap_base_type(sym->ctype.base_type);
+	default:
+		return sym->ctype.base_type;
+	}
+}
+
+/* Checks if some struct array initializer is terminated with a blank
+ * (zeroed) item i.e. {}
+ */
+static bool is_terminated_with_null_struct(const struct symbol *const sym)
+{
+	const struct expression *const arr_init = sym->initializer;
+	const struct expression *item_init =
+		last_ptr_list((struct ptr_list *)arr_init->expr_list);
+
+	if (item_init->type == EXPR_POS)
+		item_init = item_init->init_expr;
+
+	return ptr_list_empty((struct ptr_list *)item_init->expr_list);
+}
+
+/* Check for (one instance of) LTP-005
+ *
+ * The tags array is only accessed when the test fails. So we perform
+ * a static check to ensure it ends with {}
+ */
+static void check_tag_initializer(const struct symbol *const sym)
+{
+	if (is_terminated_with_null_struct(sym))
+		return;
+
+	warning(sym->pos,
+		"LTP-005: test.tags array doesn't appear to be null-terminated; did you forget to add '{}' as the final entry?");
+}
+
+/* Find struct tst_test test = { ... } and perform tests on its initializer */
+static void check_test_struct(const struct symbol *const sym)
+{
+	static struct ident *tst_test, *tst_test_test, *tst_tag;
+	struct ident *ctype_name = NULL;
+	struct expression *init = sym->initializer;
+	struct expression *entry;
+
+	if (!sym->ctype.base_type)
+		return;
+
+	ctype_name = sym->ctype.base_type->ident;
+
+	if (!init)
+		return;
+
+	if (!tst_test_test) {
+		tst_test = built_in_ident("tst_test");
+		tst_test_test = built_in_ident("test");
+		tst_tag = built_in_ident("tst_tag");
+	}
+
+	if (sym->ident != tst_test_test)
+		return;
+
+	if (ctype_name != tst_test)
+		return;
+
+	FOR_EACH_PTR(init->expr_list, entry) {
+		if (entry->init_expr->type != EXPR_SYMBOL)
+			continue;
+
+		const struct symbol *entry_init = entry->init_expr->symbol;
+		const struct symbol *entry_ctype = unwrap_base_type(entry_init);
+
+		if (entry_ctype->ident == tst_tag)
+			check_tag_initializer(entry_init);
+	} END_FOR_EACH_PTR(entry);
+
+}
+
 /* AST level checks */
 static void do_symbol_checks(struct symbol *sym)
 {
 	check_symbol_visibility(sym);
+	check_test_struct(sym);
 }
 
 /* Compile the AST into a graph of basicblocks */
-- 
2.34.0



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