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node/test/parallel/test-buffer-tostring-rangeerror.js
Christian Aurich ad67159bea test: zero-fill buffers before the string length limit check
The test allocates a buffer one byte longer than MAX_STRING_LENGTH and
expects toString('utf8') to throw ERR_STRING_TOO_LONG. MAX_STRING_LENGTH
counts UTF-16 units rather than bytes, so that only holds if every byte
decodes to a single unit. For the two Buffer.allocUnsafe variants the
contents are whatever the allocator hands back, and a single multi-byte
UTF-8 sequence anywhere in the buffer decodes to fewer units than it
occupies bytes, bringing the result down to MAX_STRING_LENGTH or less
so that nothing is thrown.

This goes unnoticed when the allocator returns zeroed pages, which is
why the test passes elsewhere. The AIX builders expose non-zero
contents and fail with "Missing expected exception (Error)".

Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/reliability/issues/1649

Signed-off-by: Christian Aurich <christian.aurichzm@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/65755
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/reliability/issues/1648
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/reliability/issues/1649
Reviewed-By: Filip Skokan <panva.ip@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
2026-09-05 05:44:06 +00:00

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'use strict';
const common = require('../common');
// This test ensures that Node.js throws an Error when trying to convert a
// large buffer into a string.
// Regression test for https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/649.
if (!common.enoughTestMem) {
common.skip('skipped due to memory requirements');
}
const assert = require('assert');
const {
Buffer,
constants: {
MAX_STRING_LENGTH,
},
} = require('buffer');
const len = MAX_STRING_LENGTH + 1;
const message = {
code: 'ERR_STRING_TOO_LONG',
name: 'Error',
};
function test(getBuffer) {
let buf;
try {
buf = getBuffer();
} catch (e) {
// If the buffer allocation fails, we skip the test.
if (e.code === 'ERR_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_FAILED' || /Array buffer allocation failed/.test(e.message)) {
return;
}
}
// MAX_STRING_LENGTH counts UTF-16 units, not bytes. Uninitialized memory can
// hold multi-byte UTF-8 sequences, which decode to fewer units than they
// occupy bytes, and a single one of them is enough to bring the result down
// to MAX_STRING_LENGTH or less. ASCII bytes keep the decoded length equal to
// the buffer length.
buf.fill(0);
assert.throws(() => { buf.toString('utf8'); }, message);
}
test(() => Buffer(len));
test(() => Buffer.alloc(len));
test(() => Buffer.allocUnsafe(len));
test(() => Buffer.allocUnsafeSlow(len));