[LTP] [PATCH v3 1/2] open: fix cleanup condition and use snprintf

Jinseok Kim always.starving0@gmail.com
Thu Feb 19 15:15:17 CET 2026


The test uses sprintf() to build temporary file names, which may
overflow the fixed-size buffer. Replace it with snprintf() to avoid
potential buffer overflows.

The cleanup logic also checked '!first' to decide whether to close
file descriptors. Since file descriptor 0 is valid, this condition
can incorrectly skip cleanup and leak file descriptors.

To fix this:
- Initialize first = -1 to correctly detect uninitialized state
- Initialize fds array with -1 after malloc to avoid closing invalid fds

Signed-off-by: Jinseok Kim <always.starving0@gmail.com>
---
 testcases/kernel/syscalls/open/open04.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/open/open04.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/open/open04.c
index 3dc3486d3..152bec2d4 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/open/open04.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/open/open04.c
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@

 #define FNAME "open04"

-static int fds_limit, first, i;
+static int fds_limit, i;
+static int first = -1;
 static int *fds;
 static char fname[20];

@@ -27,10 +28,11 @@ static void setup(void)
 	first = SAFE_OPEN(FNAME, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0777);

 	fds = SAFE_MALLOC(sizeof(int) * (fds_limit - first));
+	memset(fds, -1, sizeof(int) * (fds_limit - first));
 	fds[0] = first;

 	for (i = first + 1; i < fds_limit; i++) {
-		sprintf(fname, FNAME ".%d", i);
+		snprintf(fname, sizeof(fname), FNAME ".%d", i);
 		fd = open(fname, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0777);
 		if (fd == -1) {
 			if (errno != EMFILE)
@@ -44,13 +46,13 @@ static void setup(void)

 static void run(void)
 {
-	sprintf(fname, FNAME ".%d", fds_limit);
+	snprintf(fname, sizeof(fname), FNAME ".%d", fds_limit);
 	TST_EXP_FAIL2(open(fname, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0777), EMFILE);
 }

 static void cleanup(void)
 {
-	if (!first || !fds)
+	if (first < 0 || !fds)
 		return;

 	for (i = first; i < fds_limit; i++)
--
2.43.0


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