[LTP] [PATCH v4 0/9] Test the new fanotify FAN_FS_ERROR event

Gabriel Krisman Bertazi krisman@collabora.com
Fri Nov 19 20:29:13 CET 2021


Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 1:57 AM Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
> <krisman@collabora.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> FAN_FS_ERROR was merged into Linus tree, and the PIDFD testcases reached
>> LTP.  Therefore, I'm sending a new version of the FAN_FS_ERROR LTP
>> tests.  This is the v4 of this patchset, and it applies the feedback of
>> the previous version.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Original cover letter:
>>
>> FAN_FS_ERROR is a new (still unmerged) fanotify event to monitor
>> fileystem errors.  This patchset introduces a new LTP test for this
>> feature.
>>
>> Testing file system errors is slightly tricky, in particular because
>> they are mostly file system dependent.  Since there are only patches for
>> ext4, I choose to make the test around it, since there wouldn't be much
>> to do with other file systems.  The second challenge is how we cause the
>> file system errors, since there is no error injection for ext4 in Linux.
>> In this series, this is done by corrupting specific data in the
>> test device with the help of debugfs.
>>
>> The FAN_FS_ERROR feature is flying around linux-ext4 and fsdevel, and
>> the latest version is available on the branch below:
>>
>>     https://gitlab.collabora.com/krisman/linux -b fanotify-notifications-v9
>>
>> A proper manpage description is also available on the respective mailing
>> list, or in the branch below:
>>
>>     https://gitlab.collabora.com/krisman/man-pages.git -b fan-fs-error
>>
>> Please, let me know your thoughts.
>>
>
> Gabriel,
>
> Can you please push these v4 patches to your gitlab tree?

Hi Amir,

I have pushed v4 to :

https://gitlab.collabora.com/krisman/ltp.git -b fan-fs-error_v4

Thank you!

-- 
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi


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