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Date:   Thu,  4 Feb 2021 09:30:45 -0800
From:   Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@...gle.com>
To:     brendanhiggins@...gle.com, davidgow@...gle.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        skhan@...uxfoundation.org, Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] kunit: tool: fix unintentional statefulness in run_kernel()

This is a bug that has been present since the first version of this
code.
Using [] as a default parameter is dangerous, since it's mutable.

Example using the REPL:
>>> def bad(param = []):
...     param.append(len(param))
...     print(param)
...
>>> bad()
[0]
>>> bad()
[0, 1]

This wasn't a concern in the past since it would just keep appending the
same values to it.

E.g. before, `args` would just grow in size like:
  [mem=1G', 'console=tty']
  [mem=1G', 'console=tty', mem=1G', 'console=tty']

But with now filter_glob, this is more dangerous, e.g.
  run_kernel(filter_glob='my-test*') # default modified here
  run_kernel()			     # filter_glob still applies here!
That earlier `filter_glob` will affect all subsequent calls that don't
specify `args`.

Note: currently the kunit tool only calls run_kernel() at most once, so
it's not possible to trigger any negative side-effects right now.

Fixes: 6ebf5866f2e8 ("kunit: tool: add Python wrappers for running KUnit tests")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@...gle.com>
---
 tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py
index 71b1942f5ccd..6dd3cf6e8efa 100644
--- a/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py
+++ b/tools/testing/kunit/kunit_kernel.py
@@ -199,7 +199,9 @@ class LinuxSourceTree(object):
 			return False
 		return self.validate_config(build_dir)

-	def run_kernel(self, args=[], build_dir='', filter_glob='', timeout=None) -> Iterator[str]:
+	def run_kernel(self, args=None, build_dir='', filter_glob='', timeout=None) -> Iterator[str]:
+		if not args:
+			args = []
 		args.extend(['mem=1G', 'console=tty'])
 		if filter_glob:
 			args.append('kunit.filter_glob='+filter_glob)
-- 
2.30.0.365.g02bc693789-goog