[LTP] [PATCH v4 1/3] lib: alter find_free_loopdev()

[Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>]

> Hi!
>> Alter find_free_loopdev() to return the free loopdev minor
>> (and -1 for no free loopdev) and then WE can safely use the
>> minor number that find_free_loopdev() returned in test cases.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yang Xu<xuyang2018.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein<amir73il@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>   doc/test-writing-guidelines.txt |  9 +++++++++
>>   include/tst_device.h            |  6 ++++++
>>   lib/tst_device.c                | 12 ++++++------
>>   3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/doc/test-writing-guidelines.txt b/doc/test-writing-guidelines.txt
>> index c6d4e001d..887801e68 100644
>> --- a/doc/test-writing-guidelines.txt
>> +++ b/doc/test-writing-guidelines.txt
>> @@ -1045,6 +1045,15 @@ IMPORTANT: All testcases should use 'tst_umount()' instead of 'umount(2)' to
>>   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>   #include "tst_test.h"
>>
>> +int find_free_loopdev();
> Once this is exported as public API it should be prefixed with tst_.
>
OK.

>> -static int find_free_loopdev(void)
>> +int find_free_loopdev(void)
>>   {
>>   	int ctl_fd, dev_fd, rc, i;
>>   	struct loop_info loopinfo;
>> @@ -82,10 +82,10 @@ static int find_free_loopdev(void)
>>   		if (rc>= 0) {
>>   			set_dev_path(rc);
>>   			tst_resm(TINFO, "Found free device '%s'", dev_path);
>> -			return 0;
>> +			return rc;
>>   		}
>>   		tst_resm(TINFO, "Couldn't find free loop device");
>> -		return 1;
>> +		return -1;
>>   	}
>>
>>   	switch (errno) {
>> @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static int find_free_loopdev(void)
>>   				continue;
>>   			tst_resm(TINFO, "Found free device '%s'", dev_path);
>>   			close(dev_fd);
>> -			return 0;
>> +			return i;
>>   		}
>>
>>   		close(dev_fd);
>> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ static int find_free_loopdev(void)
>>
>>   	tst_resm(TINFO, "No free devices found");
>>
>> -	return 1;
>> +	return -1;
>>   }
> This needs more changes than this.
>
> The problem here is that the function modifies dev_path which is
> returned by tst_acquire_device() so if you call this function after
> tst_acquire_device() it will rewrite the dev_path which means that the
> test would end up with wrong device path in tst_device->dev.
>
> I guess that the easiest solution would be changing the function to get
> buffer parameter which, when non-NULL, is filled with the path.
>
> I.e. the function prototype would became:
>
> int tst_find_free_loopdev(char *path, size_t path_len);
>
> And we would pass the dev_path inside of the tst_device.c and NULL from
> the copy_file_range() tests.
Hi Cyril

This is a good comment. But I doubt why we don't use a set_devpath_flag todistinguish it.
Or you have a future plan(in different directory ,/dev,/dev/loop/,/dev/block)?

Thanks
Yang Xu