[LTP] [RFC] [PATCH 01/15] lib/tst_mkfs: Clear first 512k of the device

[Jan Stancek]

----- Original Message -----
> If we cal tst_mkfs() from a test more than once we end up with the very
> same bug we already fixed by clearing the device in
> tst_acquire_device(), i.e. some mkfs programs will not format it when
> there is a valid FS signature there.
> 
> So this commit moves the code to clear up the first 512k of the device
> from tst_acquire_device() to the tst_mkfs() where it rightfully belongs.

Didn't we move the clearing to tst_acquire_device() because of shell library
some time ago? tst_mkfs() from tst_test.sh is not using tst_mkfs_().

Regards,
Jan

> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
> ---
>  lib/tst_device.c | 9 +--------
>  lib/tst_mkfs.c   | 6 ++++++
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/tst_device.c b/lib/tst_device.c
> index 936bbfd03..c0d689dde 100644
> --- a/lib/tst_device.c
> +++ b/lib/tst_device.c
> @@ -244,15 +244,8 @@ const char *tst_acquire_device__(unsigned int size)
>  
>  		ltp_dev_size = ltp_dev_size/1024/1024;
>  
> -		if (acq_dev_size <= ltp_dev_size) {
> -			if (tst_fill_file(dev, 0, 1024, 512)) {
> -				tst_resm(TWARN | TERRNO,
> -					 "Failed to clear the first 512k of %s",
> -					 dev);
> -			}
> -
> +		if (acq_dev_size <= ltp_dev_size)
>  			return dev;
> -		}
>  
>  		tst_resm(TINFO, "Skipping $LTP_DEV size %"PRIu64"MB, requested size %uMB",
>  				ltp_dev_size, acq_dev_size);
> diff --git a/lib/tst_mkfs.c b/lib/tst_mkfs.c
> index f2e40ecd6..a63ee5e68 100644
> --- a/lib/tst_mkfs.c
> +++ b/lib/tst_mkfs.c
> @@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ void tst_mkfs_(const char *file, const int lineno, void
> (cleanup_fn)(void),
>  
>  	argv[pos] = NULL;
>  
> +	if (tst_fill_file(dev, 0, 1024, 512)) {
> +		tst_brkm(TBROK, cleanup_fn,
> +			 "Failed to clear 512k block on %s", dev);
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
>  	tst_resm(TINFO, "Formatting %s with %s opts='%s' extra opts='%s'",
>  	         dev, fs_type, fs_opts_str, extra_opt ? extra_opt : "");
>  	ret = tst_run_cmd(cleanup_fn, argv, "/dev/null", NULL, 1);
> --
> 2.13.0
> 
> 
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