Re: [PATCH 1/3] fstests: filter quota warnings

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 08:26:18AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 04:08:05PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Quota warning code has been removed from the upstream kernel and now
> > returns -EINVAL errors. Seeing as we can't set warnings anymore and
> > they have always been non-functional in the kernel, just remove the
> > calls to set warnings filter those errors out so those tests pass
> > again.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  tests/xfs/050 | 9 ---------
> >  tests/xfs/153 | 9 ---------
> >  tests/xfs/299 | 9 ---------
> >  3 files changed, 27 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tests/xfs/050 b/tests/xfs/050
> > index 1847611b..2220e470 100755
> > --- a/tests/xfs/050
> > +++ b/tests/xfs/050
> > @@ -84,9 +84,6 @@ _exercise()
> >  	_qsetup $1
> >  
> >  	echo "Using type=$type id=$id" >>$seqres.full
> > -
> > -	$XFS_QUOTA_PROG -x -c "warn -$type 65535 -d" $SCRATCH_DEV
> > -
> >  	echo
> >  	echo "*** report no quota settings" | tee -a $seqres.full
> >  	$XFS_QUOTA_PROG -D $tmp.projects -P $tmp.projid -x \
> > @@ -113,7 +110,6 @@ _exercise()
> >  	_file_as_id $SCRATCH_MNT/softie3 $id $type 1024 0
> >  	_file_as_id $SCRATCH_MNT/softie4 $id $type 1024 0
> >  	_qmount
> > -	$XFS_QUOTA_PROG -x -c "warn -i -$type 0 $id" $SCRATCH_DEV
> 
> I don't think we can revert this line from commit e5bbd47e
> ("xfs/{050,299}: clear quota warnings in between checks") because any
> kernel released in the past two years will increment the warning
> counter, and not resetting it to zero between tests means the golden
> output will break.

That's a feature, not a bug. i.e. it tells the people running the
tests that there are fixes they need to backport to the kernel they
are testing. Otherwise the moment a user sets warning limits they
will end up with a broken system.

If we want to make sure distros and LTS kernels backport fixes for
this issue, this is the way to make sure their QE/test environments
notice that these is something that needs fixing...

> We could, however, use more sed magic to force the warning counts in the
> repquota output to be zero, which (I think) enables these changes to
> move forward.

I think that's less good that the situation as it doesn't tell
anyone they are running a kernel with broken quota functionality
that needs fixing....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com