On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 10:38:51AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > Xfstests #62 was recently enabled by commit b2b36d0a4. > > However, this test is failing for ext4 because ext4 doesn't support > extended attributes on anything other than regular files and > directories. This is behavior is documented in the attr(5) man page: As explained to you before that is not the reason why it fails. The reason is that Andreas Gruenbacher changed return values for certain xattr operations in commit 55b23bde19c08f14127a27d461a4e079942c7258. > It looks like XFS is not conformant to documented behaviour and the file > system generic code. Care to explain that conclusion? A simple test and/or a look at the code will reveal that this is not true. Below is the patch from Andreas that makes the test work properly again on Linux 3.0+ on XFS, although other filesystem still have some issues with it. For ext4 that mostly seems the presence of the lost+found directory, and a different ordering from readdir than expected.
diff --git a/062 b/062 index 5cb6f92..df29e7a 100755 --- a/062 +++ b/062 @@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ _scratch_mkfs_xfs | _filter_mkfs 2>$tmp.mkfs _scratch_mount || _fail "mount failed" _create_test_bed +# In kernels before 3.0.0, getxattr() returns -EPERM for an attribute which +# cannot exist. Later kernels return -ENODATA. +invalid_attribute_filter() { + sed -e "s:\(No such attribute\|Operation not permitted\):No such attribute or operation not permitted:" +} + if [ "$USE_ATTR_SECURE" = yes ]; then ATTR_MODES="user security trusted" else @@ -119,15 +125,15 @@ for nsp in $ATTR_MODES; do echo "*** set an empty value for second attribute" setfattr -h -n $nsp.name2 $SCRATCH_MNT/$inode - getfattr -m $nsp -n $nsp.name2 $SCRATCH_MNT/$inode + getfattr -m $nsp -n $nsp.name2 $SCRATCH_MNT/$inode 2>&1 | invalid_attribute_filter echo "*** overwrite empty value" setfattr -h -n $nsp.name2 -v 0xcafe $SCRATCH_MNT/$inode - getfattr -m $nsp -e hex -n $nsp.name2 $SCRATCH_MNT/$inode + getfattr -m $nsp -e hex -n $nsp.name2 $SCRATCH_MNT/$inode 2>&1 | invalid_attribute_filter echo "*** remove attribute" setfattr -h -x $nsp.name2 $SCRATCH_MNT/$inode - getfattr -m $nsp -e hex -n $nsp.name2 $SCRATCH_MNT/$inode + getfattr -m $nsp -e hex -n $nsp.name2 $SCRATCH_MNT/$inode 2>&1 | invalid_attribute_filter echo "*** final list (strings, type=$inode, nsp=$nsp)" getfattr -m '.' -e hex $SCRATCH_MNT/$inode diff --git a/062.out b/062.out index 73fd628..5e3f5d9 100644 --- a/062.out +++ b/062.out @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ user.name2 user.name2=0xcafe *** remove attribute -SCRATCH_MNT/reg: user.name2: No such attribute +SCRATCH_MNT/reg: user.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** final list (strings, type=reg, nsp=user) # file: SCRATCH_MNT/reg user.name=0xbabe @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ user.name2 user.name2=0xcafe *** remove attribute -SCRATCH_MNT/dir: user.name2: No such attribute +SCRATCH_MNT/dir: user.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** final list (strings, type=dir, nsp=user) # file: SCRATCH_MNT/dir user.name=0xbabe @@ -125,13 +125,13 @@ setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/lnk: Operation not permitted setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/lnk: Operation not permitted *** set an empty value for second attribute setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/lnk: Operation not permitted -SCRATCH_MNT/lnk: user.name2: Operation not permitted +SCRATCH_MNT/lnk: user.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** overwrite empty value setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/lnk: Operation not permitted -SCRATCH_MNT/lnk: user.name2: Operation not permitted +SCRATCH_MNT/lnk: user.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** remove attribute setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/lnk: Operation not permitted -SCRATCH_MNT/lnk: user.name2: Operation not permitted +SCRATCH_MNT/lnk: user.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** final list (strings, type=lnk, nsp=user) === TYPE dev/b; NAMESPACE user @@ -150,13 +150,13 @@ setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/b: Operation not permitted setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/b: Operation not permitted *** set an empty value for second attribute setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/b: Operation not permitted -SCRATCH_MNT/dev/b: user.name2: Operation not permitted +SCRATCH_MNT/dev/b: user.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** overwrite empty value setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/b: Operation not permitted -SCRATCH_MNT/dev/b: user.name2: Operation not permitted +SCRATCH_MNT/dev/b: user.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** remove attribute setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/b: Operation not permitted -SCRATCH_MNT/dev/b: user.name2: Operation not permitted +SCRATCH_MNT/dev/b: user.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** final list (strings, type=dev/b, nsp=user) === TYPE dev/c; NAMESPACE user @@ -175,13 +175,13 @@ setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/c: Operation not permitted setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/c: Operation not permitted *** set an empty value for second attribute setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/c: Operation not permitted -SCRATCH_MNT/dev/c: user.name2: Operation not permitted +SCRATCH_MNT/dev/c: user.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** overwrite empty value setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/c: Operation not permitted -SCRATCH_MNT/dev/c: user.name2: Operation not permitted +SCRATCH_MNT/dev/c: user.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** remove attribute setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/c: Operation not permitted -SCRATCH_MNT/dev/c: user.name2: Operation not permitted +SCRATCH_MNT/dev/c: user.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** final list (strings, type=dev/c, nsp=user) === TYPE dev/p; NAMESPACE user @@ -200,13 +200,13 @@ setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/p: Operation not permitted setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/p: Operation not permitted *** set an empty value for second attribute setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/p: Operation not permitted -SCRATCH_MNT/dev/p: user.name2: Operation not permitted +SCRATCH_MNT/dev/p: user.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** overwrite empty value setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/p: Operation not permitted -SCRATCH_MNT/dev/p: user.name2: Operation not permitted +SCRATCH_MNT/dev/p: user.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** remove attribute setfattr: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/p: Operation not permitted -SCRATCH_MNT/dev/p: user.name2: Operation not permitted +SCRATCH_MNT/dev/p: user.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** final list (strings, type=dev/p, nsp=user) === TYPE reg; NAMESPACE trusted @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ trusted.name2 trusted.name2=0xcafe *** remove attribute -SCRATCH_MNT/reg: trusted.name2: No such attribute +SCRATCH_MNT/reg: trusted.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** final list (strings, type=reg, nsp=trusted) # file: SCRATCH_MNT/reg trusted.name=0xbabe @@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ trusted.name2 trusted.name2=0xcafe *** remove attribute -SCRATCH_MNT/dir: trusted.name2: No such attribute +SCRATCH_MNT/dir: trusted.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** final list (strings, type=dir, nsp=trusted) # file: SCRATCH_MNT/dir trusted.name=0xbabe @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ trusted.name2 trusted.name2=0xcafe *** remove attribute -SCRATCH_MNT/lnk: trusted.name2: No such attribute +SCRATCH_MNT/lnk: trusted.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** final list (strings, type=lnk, nsp=trusted) # file: SCRATCH_MNT/lnk trusted.name=0xbabe @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ trusted.name2 trusted.name2=0xcafe *** remove attribute -SCRATCH_MNT/dev/b: trusted.name2: No such attribute +SCRATCH_MNT/dev/b: trusted.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** final list (strings, type=dev/b, nsp=trusted) # file: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/b trusted.name=0xbabe @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ trusted.name2 trusted.name2=0xcafe *** remove attribute -SCRATCH_MNT/dev/c: trusted.name2: No such attribute +SCRATCH_MNT/dev/c: trusted.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** final list (strings, type=dev/c, nsp=trusted) # file: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/c trusted.name=0xbabe @@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ trusted.name2 trusted.name2=0xcafe *** remove attribute -SCRATCH_MNT/dev/p: trusted.name2: No such attribute +SCRATCH_MNT/dev/p: trusted.name2: No such attribute or operation not permitted *** final list (strings, type=dev/p, nsp=trusted) # file: SCRATCH_MNT/dev/p trusted.name=0xbabe