On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 03:08:20PM -0600, Eric Biggers wrote: > From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> > > The xfstests-bld repository may have been cloned with a umask that > masked out the group and/or the other bits. When using --update-files > in this situation or when creating a GCE image, the VM ended up in a > state where non-root users were unable to execute anything, which made > all tests using the fsgqa user get skipped. Fix this by copying the r > and x user bits to the group and other bits when creating files.tar.gz. > Also set the owner and group to root while we're at it. > > Note that git doesn't actually store file owners, groups, or any mode > bits other than "is the file executable"? So this patch really just > enforces a consistent, sane default for this "unstored" metadata. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> As it turns out, update_xfstests() in kvm-xfstests/test-appliance/gen-image also needs to be updated. (I'm not sure why it wasn't a problem for me before.) So I'll send yet another version of this patch. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fstests" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
