Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] iotests: Avoid SIGPIPE death to certtool

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 10:09:20AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> Our use of 'head -1' to log less output of certtool during
> iotest 233 could result in certtool dying early due to SIGPIPE
> if it generates enough output; if that happens, the certificate
> it was supposed to generate may be zero length, which causes
> failures such as:
> 
>   == check TLS client to plain server fails ==
>  -qemu-img: Could not open 'driver=nbd,host=127.0.0.1,port=PORT,tls-creds=tls0': Denied by server for option 5 (starttls)
>  -server reported: TLS not configured
>  -qemu-nbd: Denied by server for option 5 (starttls)
>  -server reported: TLS not configured
>  +qemu-nbd: Unable to import client certificate /tmp/qemu-iotests-quick-28354/tls/client1/client-cert.pem: Base64 unexpected header error.
> 
> Fix the pipelines to consume all output.
> 
> Reported-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> ---
>  tests/qemu-iotests/common.tls | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.tls b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.tls
> index eae81789bbc..15c6e8c8425 100644
> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.tls
> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.tls
> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ EOF
>      certtool --generate-self-signed \
>               --load-privkey "${tls_dir}/key.pem" \
>               --template "${tls_dir}/ca.info" \
> -             --outfile "${tls_dir}/$name-cert.pem" 2>&1 | head -1
> +             --outfile "${tls_dir}/$name-cert.pem" 2>&1 | sed -n 1p

I've actually prepared a patch which gets rid of the pipe entirely,
because in debugging this problem I found it unhelpful that we culled
stderr when certtool failed.

Regards,
Daniel
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