shared/005 and shared/007 work abnornamlly on RHEL6.8GA and RHEL6.9Beta because debugfs fails to set i_size to -1 or -512 and reports "exceeds field size maximum". When debugfs fails to set a negative i_size, we can skip these cases which don't trigger the kernel bug. Signed-off-by: Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tests/shared/005 | 7 +++++++ tests/shared/007 | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/tests/shared/005 b/tests/shared/005 index 296de17..37912d6 100755 --- a/tests/shared/005 +++ b/tests/shared/005 @@ -67,6 +67,13 @@ $DEBUGFS_PROG -w -R "sif /a size -1" $SCRATCH_DEV >> $seqres.full 2>&1 echo "Remount, try to append" _scratch_mount + +#check whether debugfs succeeds to set i_size to -1 or not +i_size=$(stat -c "%s" $testdir/a) +if [ $i_size -ne -1 ]; then + _notrun "Could not set i_size to -1 successfully, skip test." +fi + dd if=/dev/zero of=$testdir/a bs=512 count=1 oflag=append conv=notrunc >> $seqres.full 2>&1 || echo "Write did not succeed (ok)." sync diff --git a/tests/shared/007 b/tests/shared/007 index 0729ab8..06055a0 100755 --- a/tests/shared/007 +++ b/tests/shared/007 @@ -69,6 +69,13 @@ $DEBUGFS_PROG -w -R "sif /a size 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFE00" $SCRATCH_DEV >> $seqres.ful echo "Remount, try to append" _scratch_mount + +#check whether debugfs succeeds to set i_size to -512 or not +i_size=$(stat -c "%s" $testdir/a) +if [ $i_size -ne -512 ]; then + _notrun "Could not set i_size to -512 successfully, skip test." +fi + dd if=/dev/zero of=$testdir/a bs=512 count=1 oflag=direct,append conv=notrunc >> $seqres.full 2>&1 || echo "Write did not succeed (ok)." sync -- 1.8.3.1 -- 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