On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:55 AM Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On UBIFS we had an embarrassing bug where xattr operations > worked only for files with nlink > 0. > Make sure this will never happen again. > > Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> > --- > Hi! > > I'm not sure whether this is worth a new test, maybe we can add it > to an existing test? What about generic/020? We usually add new tests, so existing test wont start failing for unpatched kernels. > Since xfs_io does not support xattrs, we need a new C test helper.t > I could just as well write: Since xfs_io does not support xattrs, we need to add xattrs support to xfs_io but I won't be the one to insist on that. What you did is you cloned attr_replace_test.c with the tiniest change and did not even bother to mention that. Please add -T flag support to attr_replace_test.c (following xfs_io -T) instead of cloning the helper and use that in your new test. Thanks, Amir.