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Jonathan Hui edd387d04e [coap] enhance CoAP option parsing validation and robustness (#12670)
This commit improves the robustness of CoAP option parsing by adding
rigorous validation checks to prevent potential overflows and null
pointer dereferences.

Summary of changes:
1. In 'ReadExtendedOptionField()', added an overflow check when
   calculating extended lengths for 2-byte extensions. It now returns
   'kErrorParse' if the value would exceed the 16-bit range.
2. In 'ReadBlockOptionValues()', added a check to ensure the block
   option exists before accessing it. This prevents a crash when
   'GetOption()' returns null.
3. In 'ReadBlockOptionValues()', added length validation to ensure the
   option value does not exceed the local buffer size (5 bytes) before
   copying.
4. Added a new unit test 'test_coap_overflow' to verify these validation
   checks and ensure they correctly handle malformed or missing options.
2026-03-11 14:03:42 -05:00
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OpenThread Unit Tests

This page describes how to build and run OpenThread unit tests. It will be helpful for developers to debug failed unit test cases if they got one in CI or to add some new test cases.

Build Simulation

The unit tests cannot be built solely without building the whole project. So first build OpenThread on the simulation platform, which will also build all unit tests:

# Go to the root directory of OpenThread
$ script/cmake-build simulation

List all tests

To see what tests are available in OpenThread:

# Make sure you are at the simulation build directory (build/simulation)
$ ctest -N

Run the Unit Tests

To run all the unit tests:

# Make sure you are at the simulation build directory (build/simulation)
$ ctest

To run a specific unit test, for example, ot-test-spinel:

# Make sure you are at the simulation build directory (build/simulation)
$ ctest -R ot-test-spinel

Update a Test Case

If you are developing a unit test case and have made some changes in the test source file, you will need rebuild the test before running it:

# Make sure you are at the simulation build directory (build/simulation)
$ ninja <test_name>

This will only build the test and take a short time.

If any changes or fixes were made to the OpenThread code, then you'll need to rebuild the entire project:

# Make sure you are at the simulation build directory (build/simulation)
$ ninja

This will build the updated OpenThread code as well as the test cases.