On Tue, 21 May 2019 00:37:48 +0200,
Kees Cook wrote:
>
> As it turns out, the "stdbuf" command will actually force all
> subprocesses into unbuffered output, and some implementations of "echo"
> turn into single-character writes, which utterly wrecks writes to /sys
> and /proc files.
>
> Instead, drop the "stdbuf" usage, and for any tests that want explicit
> flushing between newlines, they'll have to add "fflush(stdout);" as
> needed.
>
> Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 5c069b6dedef ("selftests: Move test output to diagnostic lines")
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
BTW, this might be specific to shell invocation. As in the original
discussion thread, it starts working when I replace "echo" with
"/usr/bin/echo".
Still it's not easy to control in a script itself, so dropping the
unbuffered mode is certainly safer, yes.
Thanks!
Takashi
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/runner.sh | 12 +-----------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/runner.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/runner.sh
> index eff3ee303d0d..00c9020bdda8 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/runner.sh
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kselftest/runner.sh
> @@ -24,16 +24,6 @@ tap_prefix()
> fi
> }
>
> -# If stdbuf is unavailable, we must fall back to line-at-a-time piping.
> -tap_unbuffer()
> -{
> - if ! which stdbuf >/dev/null ; then
> - "$@"
> - else
> - stdbuf -i0 -o0 -e0 "$@"
> - fi
> -}
> -
> run_one()
> {
> DIR="$1"
> @@ -54,7 +44,7 @@ run_one()
> echo "not ok $test_num $TEST_HDR_MSG"
> else
> cd `dirname $TEST` > /dev/null
> - (((((tap_unbuffer ./$BASENAME_TEST 2>&1; echo $? >&3) |
> + (((((./$BASENAME_TEST 2>&1; echo $? >&3) |
> tap_prefix >&4) 3>&1) |
> (read xs; exit $xs)) 4>>"$logfile" &&
> echo "ok $test_num $TEST_HDR_MSG") ||
> --
> 2.17.1
>
