Re: [CFT] vfs.git #work.cifs

[Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 08:54:35PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> I can put the patches back into the automated test bucket tomorrow.
> There was a problem with the last patch of the series breaking, but
> all the rest looked fine before.  I wanted to add onto those the
> change (and earlier WIP patch of mine) to move the conversion of path
> separators (depending on dialect) '/' to '\' to later (not in
> build_path_from_dentry ... but rather later (where it is safer to do
> the conversion) e.g. when the pathname is translated (usually from
> UTF8 to UCS2 Unicode).
> 
> Setting up Samba server is pretty easy for testing - some of the
> instructions are on the Samba xfstesting wiki page
> 
> Also interesting that it could even be a bit easier (setting up
> automated testing on localhost) for some soon by testing to the kernel
> server (ksmbd) but that is currently in linux-next not mainline (yet)
> pending working through various code review comments, patches etc.

Umm... the failing tests tended to be the ones with "azure" in names;
"samba" counterparts passed, IIRC...