Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] iotests: disable core dumps in test 061

[Max Reitz]

On 23.09.2015 18:11, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> Commit 934659c460 disabled the supression of segmentation faults in
> bash tests. The new output of test 061, however, assumes that a core
> dump will be produced if a program aborts. This is not necessarily the
> case because core dumps can be disabled using ulimit.
> 
> We cannot guarantee that core dumps can be enabled in all cases, so we
> should disable them completely and update the test output accordingly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>
> ---
>  tests/qemu-iotests/061     | 3 +++
>  tests/qemu-iotests/061.out | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

As noted in the commit message for
3f394472c5bca59de5cab9baafdff1984b0213a3, ulimit -c 0 does not work for
everyone (for instance, for me it fails, probably because I'm using
systemd's coredumpctl). Generally speaking, it'll only prevent a core
dump from being created if your /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern points to
a file, but it won't if it points to a program for gathering the dump.

What we really want is to use "sigraise $(kill -l KILL)" instead of
"abort", because SIGKILL never creates a core dump, but will have
basically the same effect of crashing qemu-io.

Max

> 
> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/061 b/tests/qemu-iotests/061
> index 1df887a..7d8415b 100755
> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/061
> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/061
> @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ _supported_fmt qcow2
>  _supported_proto file
>  _supported_os Linux
>  
> +# Disable core dumps or they'll mess up the test output
> +ulimit -c 0
> +
>  echo
>  echo "=== Testing version downgrade with zero expansion ==="
>  echo
> diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/061.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/061.out
> index a683f46..0499138 100644
> --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/061.out
> +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/061.out
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ No errors were found on the image.
>  Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
>  wrote 131072/131072 bytes at offset 0
>  128 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
> -./common.config: Aborted                 (core dumped) ( exec 
> "$QEMU_IO_PROG" $QEMU_IO_OPTIONS "$@" )
> +./common.config: Aborted                 ( exec "$QEMU_IO_PROG" 
> $QEMU_IO_OPTIONS "$@" )
>  magic                     0x514649fb
>  version                   3
>  backing_file_offset       0x0
> @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ No errors were found on the image.
>  Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864
>  wrote 131072/131072 bytes at offset 0
>  128 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
> -./common.config: Aborted                 (core dumped) ( exec 
> "$QEMU_IO_PROG" $QEMU_IO_OPTIONS "$@" )
> +./common.config: Aborted                 ( exec "$QEMU_IO_PROG" 
> $QEMU_IO_OPTIONS "$@" )
>  magic                     0x514649fb
>  version                   3
>  backing_file_offset       0x0
>

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