linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] shared/012: Add tests for filename casefolding feature

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:32:04 -0400
From:   Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
To:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     fstests@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        "Lakshmipathi.G" <lakshmipathi.ganapathi@...labora.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] shared/012: Add tests for filename casefolding feature

"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 01:01:46AM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
>> > I tried out this test, and it's apparently failing for me using
>> > e2fsprogs 1.45.2; it looks like it's a whitespace issue?
>> 
>> Hi Ted,
>> 
>> Yes, definitely just whitespace.  But i don't understand why you are
>> getting this behavior.  I tried both with the master branch of e2fsprogs
>> and the tagged commit of v1.45.2 and on both occasions the test succeed
>> in my system.  For sure I can use filter_spaces but I'm puzzled why I
>> can't reproduce this.
>
> That's wierd.  The kvm-xfstests appliance VM that's uploaded to
>
> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/kvm-xfstests/
>
> shows the problem.  With your patch applied to the xfstests-dev
> directory after checking out xfstests-bld (see [1] for more
> information if you haven't used kvm-xfstests before), it's reproducible via:
>
> kvm-xfstests -I ../out_dir/root_fs.img.amd64 --update-xfstests-tar -c 4k shared/012
>
> [1] https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/kvm-quickstart.md

Hi,

Thanks for the tip.  With my setup, I still can't reproduce it, but I
was able to trigger it with xfstests-bld.  I'll send a follow up patch
that makes the result deterministic, making it work for every scenario.
Later, I'll take a look to see what is missing on my setup to make it
trigger.

-- 
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi