diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/Makefile b/tools/bootconfig/Makefile
index 681b7aef3e443cf61f0d07a462298f2e029cd113..a6146ac6445804fd6052d81b77831681db62dc25 100644
--- a/tools/bootconfig/Makefile
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/Makefile
@@ -16,5 +16,8 @@ bootconfig: ../../lib/bootconfig.c main.c $(HEADER)
install: $(PROGS)
install bootconfig $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)
+test: bootconfig
+ ./test-bootconfig.sh
+
clean:
$(RM) -f *.o bootconfig
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-array-space-comment.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-array-space-comment.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fda19e47d0db63854d7ba5bcd4ab02a4a02513b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-array-space-comment.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+key = # comment
+ "value1", # comment1
+ "value2" # comment2
+,
+ "value3"
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-array.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-array.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0174af019d7f8d9c8d1bde0f31a53df70a39c1f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-array.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Array must be comma separated.
+key = "value1" "value2"
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-dotword.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-dotword.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ba5557b2bdd3dd6403efd50c27395d89bc14969d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-dotword.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# do not start keyword with .
+key {
+ .word = 1
+}
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-empty.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-empty.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2ba3f6cc6a47c10f671597fd59e6249bae0a8e5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-empty.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+# Wrong boot config: comment only
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-keyerror.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-keyerror.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b6e247a099d0464e9c193ea3fe221b57f9f652a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-keyerror.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# key word can not contain ","
+key,word
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-longkey.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-longkey.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eb97369f91a819006b696443b72917413a517bc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-longkey.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+key_word_is_too_long01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-manywords.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-manywords.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8db81967c48a4de53645a0e5ffb8835d095cf19d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-manywords.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+key1.is2.too3.long4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.16.17
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-no-keyword.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-no-keyword.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..eff26808566cd4592ade2747a697d1d45f335820
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-no-keyword.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# No keyword
+{}
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-nonprintable.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-nonprintable.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3bb1a2864e520d688e76523b6c7dd1655eec2a20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-nonprintable.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Non printable
+key = ""
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-spaceword.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-spaceword.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..90c703d32a9a5c07749f6c2b2e4125d38264cc00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-spaceword.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# No space between words
+key . word
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-tree.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-tree.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5a6038edcd55ca54acaf2dd1247d13d9a5b0f7da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-tree.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# brace is not closing
+tree {
+ node {
+ value = 1
+}
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-value.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-value.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a1217fed86cc83f46b84f8506467b9003d4d9047
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/bad-value.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Quotes error
+value = "data
+
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/escaped.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/escaped.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9f72043b3216ff592e4b6c273dca07f087f892d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/escaped.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+key1 = "A\B\C"
+key2 = '\'\''
+key3 = "\\"
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-array-space-comment.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-array-space-comment.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..45b938dc06959f49c7be4f3a647bad430b0a195f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-array-space-comment.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+key = # comment
+ "value1", # comment1
+ "value2" , # comment2
+ "value3"
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-comment-after-value.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-comment-after-value.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0d92a853df72640c36160c93ad1a0ab7c142506e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-comment-after-value.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+key = "value" # comment
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-printables.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-printables.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ebb985a66ed8eec2e3fc579aac68720a38ad1fcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-printables.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+key = "
+ !#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~"
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-simple.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-simple.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..37dd6d21c176ca5118c13c7009a8b6bfb70e35e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-simple.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# A good simple bootconfig
+
+key.word1 = 1
+key.word2=2
+key.word3 = 3;
+
+key {
+word4 = 4 }
+
+key { word5 = 5; word6 = 6 }
+
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-single.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-single.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..98e55ad8b7115eaae61a18041a0102a63664bfb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-single.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# single key style
+key = 1
+key2 = 2
+key3 = "alpha", "beta"
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-space-after-value.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-space-after-value.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..56c15cbc574198cb46d652adf01e277d6f051294
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-space-after-value.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+key = "value"
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-tree.bconf b/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-tree.bconf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f2ddefc8b52a1566bf6a9049a994249ebb4f019e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/samples/good-tree.bconf
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+key {
+ word {
+ tree {
+ value = "0"}
+ }
+ word2 {
+ tree {
+ value = 1,2 }
+ }
+}
+other.tree {
+ value = 2; value2 = 3;}
diff --git a/tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh b/tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..87725e8723f87c74f5f1b5340f2e08ce47b3e160
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+echo "Boot config test script"
+
+BOOTCONF=./bootconfig
+INITRD=`mktemp initrd-XXXX`
+TEMPCONF=`mktemp temp-XXXX.bconf`
+NG=0
+
+cleanup() {
+ rm -f $INITRD $TEMPCONF
+ exit $NG
+}
+
+trap cleanup EXIT TERM
+
+NO=1
+
+xpass() { # pass test command
+ echo "test case $NO ($3)... "
+ if ! ($@ && echo "\t\t[OK]"); then
+ echo "\t\t[NG]"; NG=$((NG + 1))
+ fi
+ NO=$((NO + 1))
+}
+
+xfail() { # fail test command
+ echo "test case $NO ($3)... "
+ if ! (! $@ && echo "\t\t[OK]"); then
+ echo "\t\t[NG]"; NG=$((NG + 1))
+ fi
+ NO=$((NO + 1))
+}
+
+echo "Basic command test"
+xpass $BOOTCONF $INITRD
+
+echo "Delete command should success without bootconfig"
+xpass $BOOTCONF -d $INITRD
+
+dd if=/dev/zero of=$INITRD bs=4096 count=1
+echo "key = value;" > $TEMPCONF
+bconf_size=$(stat -c %s $TEMPCONF)
+initrd_size=$(stat -c %s $INITRD)
+
+echo "Apply command test"
+xpass $BOOTCONF -a $TEMPCONF $INITRD
+new_size=$(stat -c %s $INITRD)
+
+echo "File size check"
+xpass test $new_size -eq $(expr $bconf_size + $initrd_size + 9)
+
+echo "Apply command repeat test"
+xpass $BOOTCONF -a $TEMPCONF $INITRD
+
+echo "File size check"
+xpass test $new_size -eq $(stat -c %s $INITRD)
+
+echo "Delete command check"
+xpass $BOOTCONF -d $INITRD
+
+echo "File size check"
+new_size=$(stat -c %s $INITRD)
+xpass test $new_size -eq $initrd_size
+
+echo "Max node number check"
+
+echo -n > $TEMPCONF
+for i in `seq 1 1024` ; do
+ echo "node$i" >> $TEMPCONF
+done
+xpass $BOOTCONF -a $TEMPCONF $INITRD
+
+echo "badnode" >> $TEMPCONF
+xfail $BOOTCONF -a $TEMPCONF $INITRD
+
+echo "Max filesize check"
+
+# Max size is 32767 (including terminal byte)
+echo -n "data = \"" > $TEMPCONF
+dd if=/dev/urandom bs=768 count=32 | base64 -w0 >> $TEMPCONF
+echo "\"" >> $TEMPCONF
+xfail $BOOTCONF -a $TEMPCONF $INITRD
+
+truncate -s 32764 $TEMPCONF
+echo "\"" >> $TEMPCONF # add 2 bytes + terminal ('\"\n\0')
+xpass $BOOTCONF -a $TEMPCONF $INITRD
+
+echo "=== expected failure cases ==="
+for i in samples/bad-* ; do
+ xfail $BOOTCONF -a $i $INITRD
+done
+
+echo "=== expected success cases ==="
+for i in samples/good-* ; do
+ xpass $BOOTCONF -a $i $INITRD
+done
+
+echo
+if [ $NG -eq 0 ]; then
+ echo "All tests passed"
+else
+ echo "$NG tests failed"
+fi