[LTP] [PATCH] fs: don't block i_writecount during exec

[Tudor Ambarus]

On 6/6/24 6:49 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 06:33:34PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 12:53:18PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 04:37:49PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 01:45:05PM +0100, Aishwarya TCV wrote:
>>
>>>>> LTP test "execve04" is failing when run against
>>>>> next-master(next-20240606) kernel with Arm64 on JUNO in our CI.
>>
>>>> It's also causing the LTP creat07 test to fail with basically the same
>>>> bisection (I started from next/pending-fixes rather than the -rc so the
>>>> initial phases were different):
>>
>>>> tst_test.c:1690: TINFO: LTP version: 20230929
>>>> tst_test.c:1574: TINFO: Timeout per run is 0h 01m 30s
>>>> creat07.c:37: TFAIL: creat() succeeded unexpectedly
>>>> Test timeouted, sending SIGKILL!
>>>> tst_test.c:1622: TINFO: Killed the leftover descendant processes
>>>> tst_test.c:1628: TINFO: If you are running on slow machine, try exporting LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL > 1
>>>> tst_test.c:1630: TBROK: Test killed! (timeout?)
>>
>>>> The code in the testcase is below:
>>
>>> These tests will have to be updated, as this patch removes that behavior.
>>
>> Adding the LTP list - looking at execve04 it seems to be trying for a
>> similar thing to creat07, it's looking for an ETXTBUSY.
> 
> Or not since they reject signed mail :/

FYI, I encountered the same test failures. I opened a bug on the github
ltp project suggesting that the tests need to be updated. Here it is:
https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/issues/1184

Cheers,
ta