From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:39276 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752594AbcEXN1S (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2016 09:27:18 -0400 From: Eryu Guan Subject: [PATCH] generic/250: ignore xfs_io IO errors when writing to dmerror device Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 21:24:36 +0800 Message-Id: <1464096276-28407-1-git-send-email-eguan@redhat.com> Sender: fstests-owner@vger.kernel.org To: fstests@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Eryu Guan List-ID: When testing with data=journal ext4, direct write to dmerror device doesn't return EIO, because ext4 turns direct write to buffered write in data=journal mode and all data is written to journal buffer. The write only fails later when commiting journal and error messages can be seen in dmesg. As the test is checking on the md5 checksum of the test file, it's ok to ignore the IO error returned by xfs_io, as long as the checksums match the golden image. Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan --- Not returning errors to userspace properly is kind of an ext4 bug in journal mode, but ext4 always behaves this way. So I think instead of fixing ext4, this is the easiest way to make generic/250 work with journal mode ext4. tests/generic/250 | 3 ++- tests/generic/250.out | 1 - 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/generic/250 b/tests/generic/250 index 6d15de2..891b8b0 100755 --- a/tests/generic/250 +++ b/tests/generic/250 @@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ echo "CoW and unmount" $XFS_IO_PROG -f -c "pwrite -S 0x63 $bufsize 1" $testdir/file2 >> $seqres.full sync _dmerror_load_error_table -$XFS_IO_PROG -d -f -c "pwrite -S 0x63 -b $bufsize 0 $filesize" $testdir/file2 >> $seqres.full +$XFS_IO_PROG -d -f -c "pwrite -S 0x63 -b $bufsize 0 $filesize" $testdir/file2 \ + >> $seqres.full 2>&1 _dmerror_load_working_table _dmerror_unmount _dmerror_mount diff --git a/tests/generic/250.out b/tests/generic/250.out index 710c80e..0ff87d0 100644 --- a/tests/generic/250.out +++ b/tests/generic/250.out @@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ Create the original files Compare files ec8bb3b24d5b0f1b5bdf8c8f0f541ee6 SCRATCH_MNT/test-250/file2 CoW and unmount -pwrite64: Input/output error Compare files 3ed86318f4ff8da26c1c2a6e3041f9be SCRATCH_MNT/test-250/file2 Check for damage -- 2.5.5