[LTP] [PATCH 1/2] testcases/lib: Fix tst_ns_* helpers

[Petr Vorel]

Hi Cyril, Li,

> On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> wrote:

> > Replaces SAFE_CLONE() with tst_clone() in the tst_ns_* helpers.

> > The reason for the replacement is that SAFE_CLONE() uses
> > TST_RETRY_FUNC() which calls tst_multiply_timeout(). The problem with
> > that is that the tst_multiply_timeout() is a test library function that
> > started to print TINFO messages recently and that we rely on parsing the
> > output from the tst_ns_* helpers.

> > The reason SAFE_CLONE() started to call TST_RETRY_FUNC() is that in the
> > case that we create new namespaces with the clone call, we may end up
> > creating them faster than kernel can clean them up which is described in:

> > commit 7d882081a5613f44a12fc6b1c44267d4df0857a4
> > Author: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
> > Date:   Mon Mar 28 22:46:43 2022 +0200

> >     lib: Retry safe_clone() on ENOSPC

> > This combined with the newly introduced changes in the test library that
> > check for kernel debugging options that may need to adjust default
> > timeouts:

> > commit 893ca0abe7e82851ff0e5d93c09b1098f2eff121
> > Author: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
> > Date:   Sun Dec 22 15:22:49 2024 +0800

> >     lib: multiply the timeout if detect slow kconfigs

> > which adds tst_has_slow_kconfig() into the tst_multiply_timeout() causes
> > the TINFO messages to be printed.

> > The reason why we can safely replace the SAFE_CLONE() with tst_clone()
> > here is that we are not creating new namspaces in the tst_ns_* helpers,
> > but rather than that cloning a new process to be executed inside of the
> > namespace, hence we do not need to retry on ENOSPC.

> > Signed-off-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>


> Reviewed-by: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>

> Nice work!

Thanks for fix and review. This one fixes the problem, thus I merged it.
I'll let you know about the other patch soon (I suspect that it does not catch
other usage, some tools needs to parse stderr ...).

Kind regards,
Petr