Re: [PATCH] xfs/227: fix bad variable expansion

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2026 at 02:08:39AM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote:
> The create_data() set cmd_str to "-c \"resvsp $((off * 4096)) 4096\".
> That cause xfs_io can't split the command line properly, it fails as:
> 
>   command ""resvsp" not found
> 
> Fixes: aaf40fb7 ("fstests: xfs/227 is really slow")
> Signed-off-by: Zorro Lang <zlang@kernel.org>

Glomming CLI arguments into a string is quite a bash antipattern.

Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>

--D

> ---
>  tests/xfs/227 | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/xfs/227 b/tests/xfs/227
> index 7f8ee2db..ed505b18 100755
> --- a/tests/xfs/227
> +++ b/tests/xfs/227
> @@ -78,13 +78,13 @@ create_attrs()
>  create_data()
>  {
>  	local blocks=$1
> -	local cmd_str
> +	local cmd_args=()
>  
>  	for off in `seq $blocks -1 0`; do
> -		cmd_str="-c \"resvsp $((off * 4096)) 4096\" $cmd_str"
> +		cmd_args+=("-c" "resvsp $((off * 4096)) 4096")
>  	done
>  	$XFS_IO_PROG -f -c "truncate $((($blocks + 1) * 4096))" \
> -			$cmd_str $2 >> seqres.full 2>&1
> +			"${cmd_args[@]}" $2 >> $seqres.full 2>&1
>  }
>  
>  # create the designated file with a certain number of attributes and a certain
> -- 
> 2.52.0
> 
>