Re: [PATCH v2] fstests: generic/228: do not rely on the bash core dump output

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On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 03:49:44PM +0930, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> [BUG]
> With bash 5.3.x, the test case generic/228 will always fail with the
> following golden output mismatch:
> 
> FSTYP         -- btrfs
> PLATFORM      -- Linux/x86_64 btrfs-vm 6.17.0-rc3-custom+ #281 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Aug 28 11:15:21 ACST 2025
> MKFS_OPTIONS  -- /dev/mapper/test-scratch1
> MOUNT_OPTIONS -- /dev/mapper/test-scratch1 /mnt/scratch
> 
> generic/228 1s ... - output mismatch (see /home/adam/xfstests/results//generic/228.out.bad)
>     --- tests/generic/228.out	2025-09-04 15:15:08.965000000 +0930
>     +++ /home/adam/xfstests/results//generic/228.out.bad	2025-09-04 15:16:05.627457599 +0930
>     @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>      QA output created by 228
>      File size limit is now set to 100 MB.
>      Let us try to preallocate 101 MB. This should fail.
>     -File size limit exceeded
>     +File size limit exceeded   $XFS_IO_PROG -f -c 'falloc 0 101m' $TEST_DIR/ouch
>      Let us now try to preallocate 50 MB. This should succeed.
>      Test over.
>     ...
>     (Run 'diff -u /home/adam/xfstests/tests/generic/228.out /home/adam/xfstests/results//generic/228.out.bad'  to see the entire diff)
> Ran: generic/228
> Failures: generic/228
> Failed 1 of 1 tests
> 
> [CAUSE]
> The "File size limit exceeded" line is never from xfs_io, but the
> coredump from bash itself.
> 
> And with latest 5.3.x bash, it added extra dump during such core dump
> handling (even if we have explicitly skipped the coredump).
> 
> [FIX]
> Instead of relying on bash to do the coredump, which is unreliable
> between different bash versions as I have shown above, ignore the
> SIGXFSZ signal so that xfs_io will do the error output, which is more
> reliable than bash.
> 
> And since we do not need to bother the coredump behavior, remove all the
> cleanup and preparation for coredump.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx>

Makes sense, thanks for testing against the latest bash!

Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>




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