[PATCH v2] tests/validation: Fix 64bit test failure

[Sebastian Huber]

On 24/02/2021 17:54, Gedare Bloom wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 2:52 AM Sebastian Huber
> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>  wrote:
>> On 16/02/2021 06:51, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>
>>> The issue can be fixed in two ways.
>>>
>>> 1. We change the API, so that the error condition can happen also on
>>> 64-bit architectures (current patch).
>>>
>>> 2. We change the specification and implementation, so that this error
>>> condition is removed on 64-bit architectures. In the implementation,
>>> this is easy. In the specification, this is a bit more difficult since
>>> I would have to introduce a new option which enables or disables parts
>>> of the specification based on the word size of the architecture
>>> (similar to RTEMS_SMP). This is the main reason why I didn't fix the
>>> issue immediately
>> How do we want to address this issue? Change the API or the
>> specification, etc.?
>>
> I'd lean toward 1, except without digging in the details I think the
> proposed patch is wrong to use size_t, and the implementation check of
> SIZE_MAX. We shouldn't use size_t for a counting variable, that is
> wrong. size_t has an implied type of number of bytes. The check should
> be against UINT32_MAX if the variable type is uint32_t.
This is exactly the problem. Internally, this uint32_t variable is used 
to compute the allocation size in size_t, which is uint64_t on 64-bit 
architectures and an overflow cannot happen.

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