moved specs from busted to telescope in order to fix issue with debug.sethook-based quota errors

README.md

@@ -71,12 +71,9 @@ This library is released under the MIT license. See MIT-LICENSE.txt for details
 Specs
 =====
 
-This project uses [busted](http://olivinelabs.com/busted/) for its specs. In order to run them, install `busted` and then:
+This project uses [telescope](https://github.com/norman/telescope) for its specs. In order to run them, install it and then:
 
     cd /path/to/where/the/spec/folder/is
-    busted
+    tsc spec/*
-
-
-
-
 
+I would love to use [busted](http://olivinelabs.com/busted/), but it has some incompatibility with `debug.sethook(f, "", quota)` and the tests just hanged up.

sandbox.lua

@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 local BASE_ENV = {}
 -- Non-safe :
--- string.rep: can be used to allocate millions of bytes in 1 operation
+-- * string.rep: can be used to allocate millions of bytes in 1 operation
--- {set|get}metatable: can be used to modify the metatable of global objects (strings, integers)
+-- * {set|get}metatable: can be used to modify the metatable of global objects (strings, integers)
--- collectgarbage: can affect performance of other systems
+-- * collectgarbage: can affect performance of other systems
--- dofile: can access the server filesystem
+-- * dofile: can access the server filesystem
--- _G: Unsafe. It can be mocked though
+-- * _G: Unsafe. It can be mocked though
--- load{file|string}: All unsafe because they can grant acces to global env
+-- * load{file|string}: All unsafe because they can grant acces to global env
--- raw{get|set|equal}: Potentially unsafe
+-- * raw{get|set|equal}: Potentially unsafe
--- module|require|module: Can modify the host settings
+-- * module|require|module: Can modify the host settings
--- string.dump: Can display confidential server info (implementation of functions)
+-- * string.dump: Can display confidential server info (implementation of functions)
--- string.rep: Can allocate millions of bytes in one go
+-- * string.rep: Can allocate millions of bytes in one go
--- math.randomseed: Can affect the host sytem
+-- * math.randomseed: Can affect the host sytem
--- io.*, os.*: Most stuff there is non-save
+-- * io.*, os.*: Most stuff there is non-save
 
 ([[
 
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ local function cleanup()
 end
 
 local function protect(f, options)
-  return function(...)
   if type(f) == 'string' then f = assert(loadstring(f)) end
 
   options = options or {}
@@ -84,20 +83,13 @@ local function protect(f, options)
 
   setfenv(f, env)
 
-    -- I would love to be able to make step greater than 1
+  return function(...)
-    -- (say, 500000) but any value > 1 seems to choke with a simple while true do end
+    local timeout = function()
-    -- After ~100 iterations, they stop calling timeout. So I need to use step = 1 and
-    -- instructions_count the steps separatedly
-    local step = 1
-    local instructions_count = 0
-    local timeout = function(str)
-      instructions_count = instructions_count + 1
-      if instructions_count >= quota then
       cleanup()
-        error('Quota exceeded: ' .. tostring(instructions_count) .. '/' .. tostring(quota) .. ' instructions')
+      error('Quota exceeded: ' .. tostring(quota))
     end
-    end
+
-    debug.sethook(timeout, "", step)
+    debug.sethook(timeout, "", quota)
     string.rep = nil
 
     local ok, result = pcall(f, ...)

spec/sandbox_spec.lua

@@ -5,45 +5,45 @@ describe('sandbox.run', function()
   describe('when handling base cases', function()
     it('can run harmless functions', function()
       local r = sandbox.run(function() return 'hello' end)
-      assert.equal(r, 'hello')
+      assert_equal(r, 'hello')
     end)
 
     it('can run harmless strings', function()
       local r = sandbox.run("return 'hello'")
-      assert.equal(r, 'hello')
+      assert_equal(r, 'hello')
     end)
 
     it('has access to safe methods', function()
-      assert.equal(10,      sandbox.run("return tonumber('10')"))
+      assert_equal(10,      sandbox.run("return tonumber('10')"))
-      assert.equal('HELLO', sandbox.run("return string.upper('hello')"))
+      assert_equal('HELLO', sandbox.run("return string.upper('hello')"))
-      assert.equal(1,       sandbox.run("local a = {3,2,1}; table.sort(a); return a[1]"))
+      assert_equal(1,       sandbox.run("local a = {3,2,1}; table.sort(a); return a[1]"))
-      assert.equal(10,      sandbox.run("return math.max(1,10)"))
+      assert_equal(10,      sandbox.run("return math.max(1,10)"))
     end)
 
     it('does not allow access to not-safe stuff', function()
-      assert.has_error(function() sandbox.run('return setmetatable({}, {})') end)
+      assert_error(function() sandbox.run('return setmetatable({}, {})') end)
-      assert.has_error(function() sandbox.run('return string.rep("hello", 5)') end)
+      assert_error(function() sandbox.run('return string.rep("hello", 5)') end)
-      assert.has_error(function() sandbox.run('return _G.string.upper("hello")') end)
+      assert_error(function() sandbox.run('return _G.string.upper("hello")') end)
     end)
   end)
 
   describe('when handling string.rep', function()
     it('does not allow pesky string:rep', function()
-      assert.has_error(function() sandbox.run('return ("hello"):rep(5)') end)
+      assert_error(function() sandbox.run('return ("hello"):rep(5)') end)
     end)
 
     it('restores the value of string.rep', function()
       sandbox.run("")
-      assert.equal('hellohello', string.rep('hello', 2))
+      assert_equal('hellohello', string.rep('hello', 2))
     end)
 
     it('restores string.rep even if there is an error', function()
-      assert.has_error(function() sandbox.run("error('foo')") end)
+      assert_error(function() sandbox.run("error('foo')") end)
-      assert.equal('hellohello', string.rep('hello', 2))
+      assert_equal('hellohello', string.rep('hello', 2))
     end)
 
     it('passes parameters to the function', function()
-      assert.equal(sandbox.run(function(a,b) return a + b end, {}, 1,2), 3)
+      assert_equal(sandbox.run(function(a,b) return a + b end, {}, 1,2), 3)
     end)
   end)
 
@@ -51,19 +51,19 @@ describe('sandbox.run', function()
   describe('when the sandboxed function tries to modify the base environment', function()
 
     it('does not allow modifying the modules', function()
-      assert.has_error(function() sandbox.run("string.foo = 1") end)
+      assert_error(function() sandbox.run("string.foo = 1") end)
-      assert.has_error(function() sandbox.run("string.char = 1") end)
+      assert_error(function() sandbox.run("string.char = 1") end)
     end)
 
     it('does not persist modifications of base functions', function()
       sandbox.run('error = function() end')
-      assert.has_error(function() sandbox.run("error('this should be raised')") end)
+      assert_error(function() sandbox.run("error('this should be raised')") end)
     end)
 
     it('DOES persist modification to base functions when they are provided by the base env', function()
       local env = {['next'] = 'hello'}
       sandbox.run('next = "bye"', {env=env})
-      assert.equal(env['next'], 'bye')
+      assert_equal(env['next'], 'bye')
     end)
   end)
 
@@ -71,17 +71,17 @@ describe('sandbox.run', function()
   describe('when given infinite loops', function()
 
     it('throws an error with infinite loops', function()
-      assert.has_error(function() sandbox.run("while true do end") end)
+      assert_error(function() sandbox.run("while true do end") end)
     end)
 
     it('restores string.rep even after a while true', function()
-      assert.has_error(function() sandbox.run("while true do end") end)
+      assert_error(function() sandbox.run("while true do end") end)
-      assert.equal('hellohello', string.rep('hello', 2))
+      assert_equal('hellohello', string.rep('hello', 2))
     end)
 
     it('accepts a quota param', function()
-      assert.no_has_error(function() sandbox.run("for i=1,100 do end") end)
+      assert_not_error(function() sandbox.run("for i=1,100 do end") end)
-      assert.has_error(function() sandbox.run("for i=1,100 do end", {quota = 20}) end)
+      assert_error(function() sandbox.run("for i=1,100 do end", {quota = 20}) end)
     end)
 
   end)
@@ -89,17 +89,17 @@ describe('sandbox.run', function()
 
   describe('when given an env option', function()
     it('is available on the sandboxed env', function()
-      assert.equal(1, sandbox.run("return foo", {env = {foo = 1}}))
+      assert_equal(1, sandbox.run("return foo", {env = {foo = 1}}))
     end)
 
     it('does not hide base env', function()
-      assert.equal('HELLO', sandbox.run("return string.upper(foo)", {env = {foo = 'hello'}}))
+      assert_equal('HELLO', sandbox.run("return string.upper(foo)", {env = {foo = 'hello'}}))
     end)
 
     it('can modify the env', function()
       local env = {foo = 1}
       sandbox.run("foo = 2", {env = env})
-      assert.equal(env.foo, 2)
+      assert_equal(env.foo, 2)
     end)
   end)