On kvm-xfstest, getfattr (2.4.43) does not return failure exit code when the requested xattr is not found. Change the test to check the returned xattr value instead of exit code. Cc: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> --- Eryu, This test is supposed to pass on master now and it does pass on my Ubuntu 16.04, but fails on kvm-xfstests (Debian stretch). The failure is due to different behavior of getfattr on different systems and as a result of me suggesting to Chandan to check getfattr exit code. So this patch is for my redemption ;-) I surveyed for other places that check exit code of getfattr as indication of ENODATA and found only one other instance in _require_scratch_richacl_support() (for non xfs/ext4 FSTYP). However, this instance is buggy regardless, because it provides no file argument to getfattr. I would fix it, but I am not sure what's the semantics and have no idea how to test this. Amir. tests/overlay/038 | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/overlay/038 b/tests/overlay/038 index 24cd432..69fd76a 100755 --- a/tests/overlay/038 +++ b/tests/overlay/038 @@ -108,9 +108,9 @@ test_file_st_ino=$(stat -c '%i' $SCRATCH_MNT/test_file) mv $SCRATCH_MNT/test_file $impure_dir -$GETFATTR_PROG --absolute-names -n 'trusted.overlay.impure' \ - $upperdir/test_dir/impure_dir >>$seqres.full 2>&1 -[[ $? == 0 ]] || echo "Impure directory missing impure xattr" +impure=$($GETFATTR_PROG --absolute-names --only-values -n 'trusted.overlay.impure' \ + $upperdir/test_dir/impure_dir) +[[ $impure == "y" ]] || echo "Impure directory missing impure xattr" # After $impure_dir becomes impure parent_d=$($here/src/t_dir_type $impure_dir $impure_dir_parent_st_ino) @@ -133,9 +133,9 @@ rm -rf $impure_dir/test_file $here/src/t_dir_type $impure_dir $test_file_st_ino [[ $? != 0 ]] || echo "Directory's readdir cache has stale entries" -$GETFATTR_PROG --absolute-names -n 'trusted.overlay.impure' \ - $upperdir/test_dir/impure_dir >>$seqres.full 2>&1 -[[ $? != 0 ]] || echo "Pure directory has impure xattr" +impure=$($GETFATTR_PROG --absolute-names --only-values -n 'trusted.overlay.impure' \ + $upperdir/test_dir/impure_dir 2>/dev/null) +[[ -z $impure ]] || echo "Pure directory has impure xattr" # Verify d_ino values corresponding to "." and ".." entries of a # pure lower dir. -- 2.7.4 -- 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