Re: [PATCH] xfs/126: fix that corrupt xattr might fail with a small probability

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On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 08:22:00PM +0800, yukuai (C) wrote:
> 
> 
> ON 2020/1/10 0:46, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > It sounds like a reasonable idea, though I was suggesting doing the
> > snapshot-and-check in the xfs_db source, not fstests.
> 
> The problem is that blocktrash do changed some bits of the attr block,
> however, corrupt will still fail if the change is only inside the 'zero'
> range.
> 
> So, I think it's hard to fix the problem by doing the snapshot-and-check
> in the xfs_db source.

<nod>

I'm a little concerned about having a static seed though, since the
xfs_db rng isn't great.

Does adding "-o 4" to the blocktrash command make it work reliably?
That should be close enough to the start of the attrleaf block that
we'll reliably corrupt *some* amount of stuff in the header.

--D

> Thanks!
> Yu Kuai
> 



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