Re: [PATCH 4/6] check: don't abort on non-existent excluded groups

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

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 09:00:19AM -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 06:56:42PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
> > 
> > Don't abort the whole test run if we asked to exclude groups that aren't
> > included in the candidate group list, since we actually /are/ satisfying
> > the user's request.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
> > ---
> >  check |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > 
> > diff --git a/check b/check
> > index e51cbede..6f8db858 100755
> > --- a/check
> > +++ b/check
> > @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ _prepare_test_list()
> >  		list=$(get_group_list $xgroup)
> >  		if [ -z "$list" ]; then
> >  			echo "Group \"$xgroup\" is empty or not defined?"
> > -			exit 1
> > +			continue
> >  		fi
> 
> Is this only for a nonexistent group? I.e., 'check -x nosuchgroup ...' ?
> If so, what's the advantage?

I wrote this for groups that exist somewhere but would never have been
selected for this filesystem type in the first place.  For example,
'dangerous_scrub' (aka fuzz testing for xfs_scrub) is only found in
tests/xfs/group, so running:

# FSTYP=ext4 ./check -x dangerous_scrub

fails because ./check cannot select any of the dangerous_scrub tests for
an ext4 run so it doesn't recognize the group name.  IOWs, it's too
stupid to realize that excluding a group that can't be selected should
be a no-op.

--D

> Brian
> 
> >  
> >  		trim_test_list $list
> > 
>