Hi all, There are several tests in fstests (generic/019, generic/388, generic/475, xfs/057, etc.) that test filesystem crash recovery by starting a loop that kicks off a filesystem exerciser, waits a few seconds, and offlines the filesystem somehow. Some of them use the block layer's error injector, some use dm-error, and some use the shutdown ioctl. The crash tests that employ error injection have the unfortunate trait of causing occasional livelocks when tested against XFS because XFS allows administrators to configure the filesystem to retry some failed writes indefinitely. If the offlining races with a full log trying to update the filesystem, the fs will hang forever. Fix this by allowing XFS to go offline immediately. While we're at it, fix the dmesg scrapers so they don't trip over XFS reporting these IO errors as internal errors. If you're going to start using this mess, you probably ought to just pull from my git trees, which are linked below. This is an extraordinary way to destroy everything. Enjoy! Comments and questions are, as always, welcome. --D fstests git tree: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/djwong/xfstests-dev.git/log/?h=fix-shutdown-test-hangs --- check | 1 + common/dmerror | 4 ++++ common/fail_make_request | 1 + common/rc | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- common/xfs | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- tests/xfs/006.out | 6 +++--- tests/xfs/264.out | 12 ++++++----- 7 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)