The maximum size for extended attribute values is 65536 (XATTR_SIZE_MAX).
Since there are filesystems that can set blksize to really big values
(CephFS for example has a default of 4M), it's easy to have this test
failing with fsetxattr returning -E2BIG.
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx>
---
src/attr_replace_test.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/attr_replace_test.c b/src/attr_replace_test.c
index 0720bfdc18ab..1ca9bf11ba58 100644
--- a/src/attr_replace_test.c
+++ b/src/attr_replace_test.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/xattr.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <linux/limits.h>
#define die() do { perror(""); \
fprintf(stderr, "error at line %d\n", __LINE__); \
@@ -44,6 +45,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
size = sbuf.st_blksize * 3 / 4;
if (!size)
fail("Invalid st_blksize(%ld)\n", sbuf.st_blksize);
+ if (size > XATTR_SIZE_MAX)
+ size = XATTR_SIZE_MAX;
value = malloc(size);
if (!value)
fail("Failed to allocate memory\n");
