[PATCH v8 2/6] selftests/liveupdate: add test cases for LIVEUPDATE_IOCTL_CREATE_SESSION calls with invalid length

luca.boccassi at gmail.com luca.boccassi at gmail.com
Sat Apr 18 09:28:19 PDT 2026


From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>

Verify that LIVEUPDATE_IOCTL_CREATE_SESSION ioctl which provide a name
that is an empty string or too long are not allowed.

Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
---
 .../testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c b/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c
index c2878e3d5ef9..f0a8e600c154 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c
@@ -345,4 +345,46 @@ TEST_F(liveupdate_device, preserve_unsupported_fd)
 	ASSERT_EQ(close(session_fd), 0);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Test Case: Create Session with No Null Termination
+ *
+ * Verifies that filling the entire 64-byte name field with non-null characters
+ * (no '\0' terminator) is rejected by the kernel with EINVAL.
+ */
+TEST_F(liveupdate_device, create_session_no_null_termination)
+{
+	struct liveupdate_ioctl_create_session args = {};
+
+	self->fd1 = open(LIVEUPDATE_DEV, O_RDWR);
+	if (self->fd1 < 0 && errno == ENOENT)
+		SKIP(return, "%s does not exist", LIVEUPDATE_DEV);
+	ASSERT_GE(self->fd1, 0);
+
+	/* Fill entire name field with 'X', no null terminator */
+	args.size = sizeof(args);
+	memset(args.name, 'X', sizeof(args.name));
+
+	EXPECT_LT(ioctl(self->fd1, LIVEUPDATE_IOCTL_CREATE_SESSION, &args), 0);
+	EXPECT_EQ(errno, EINVAL);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Test Case: Create Session with Empty Name
+ *
+ * Verifies that creating a session with an empty string name fails
+ * with EINVAL.
+ */
+TEST_F(liveupdate_device, create_session_empty_name)
+{
+	int session_fd;
+
+	self->fd1 = open(LIVEUPDATE_DEV, O_RDWR);
+	if (self->fd1 < 0 && errno == ENOENT)
+		SKIP(return, "%s does not exist", LIVEUPDATE_DEV);
+	ASSERT_GE(self->fd1, 0);
+
+	session_fd = create_session(self->fd1, "");
+	EXPECT_EQ(session_fd, -EINVAL);
+}
+
 TEST_HARNESS_MAIN
-- 
2.47.3




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