Re: [PATCH] xfs/444: add check for xfs_db write bno array

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 06:00:30PM +0800, yang xu wrote:
> On RHEL7.5Alpha, the test case can trigger an xfsprogs bug that xfs_db
> writes bno array failed ,such as:
>   $ xfs_db -x -c "agfl 0" -c "write bno[32] 78" /dev/sda9
>     bno[32] = 32:null 33:null 34:null 35:null 36:null 37:null ...
> 
> the correct result as below:
>     bno[32] = 78
> 
> On xfs/444 the following code triggers this bug:
>     cat $tmp.remap | while read dest_pos bno junk; do
>           _scratch_xfs_set_metadata_field "bno[$dest_pos]" "$bno" \
>           "agfl 0" >> $seqres.full
>        done
> 
> It is because xfs_db on RHEL7.5Alpha doesn't support write via array
> indexing.  The problem has been fixed since xfprogs commit 4222d000ed
> ("db: write via array indexing doesn't work").  But the fix patch has
> not been merged into RHEL7.5Alpha.
> 
> For users, they should know the reason for the failure of the test is
> a filesystem bug or an xfsprogs bug.  So, we add check for xfs_db
> write bno array.
> 
> Signed-off-by: yang xu <xuyang.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  tests/xfs/444 | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/xfs/444 b/tests/xfs/444
> index 141be52..fe80502 100755
> --- a/tests/xfs/444
> +++ b/tests/xfs/444
> @@ -58,6 +58,22 @@ _require_test_program "punch-alternating"
>  # This is only a v5 filesystem problem
>  _require_scratch_xfs_crc
>  
> +check_xfs_db_write_bno_array() {

_require_xfs_db_write_array(), and move to common/xfs.

> +	_scratch_xfs_set_metadata_field "bno[32]" "78" "agfl 0" >> $seqres.full
> +
> +	# Before xfsprogs commit 0ebbf1d58898 ("db: limit AGFL bno
> +	# arrayi printing), When asking for a single agfl entry,
> +	# the result outputs the entire remainder of the array
> +	# starting at the given index.
> +	# It is difficult to extract single entry values.
> +	# So filter them.
> +	bno2=$(_scratch_xfs_get_metadata_field "bno[32]" \
> +		"agfl 0" |sed -e 's/ .*$//g' | sed -e 's/^.*://g')
> +	echo "bno[32] set 78 get $bno2" >> $seqres.full
> +
> +	[ "${bno2}" != "78" ] && _fail "xfs_db write can't support bno array"

test should _notrun is db doesn't have therequired support, not
_fail.

> +#Before xfsprogs commit 4222d000ed("db: write via array indexing doesn't work").
> +#xfs_db command to write a specific AGFL index doesn't work. We should check it.
> +check_xfs_db_write_bno_array

This comment belongs with the function, not the caller.

Cheers,

Dave.

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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com