linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v4 0/9] Test the new fanotify FAN_FS

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Message-ID: <CAOQ4uxhbDgdZZ0qphWg1vnW4ZoAkUxcQp631yZO8W49AE18W9g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 19 Nov 2021 07:48:29 +0200
From:   Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
To:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
Cc:     Petr Vorel <pvorel@...e.cz>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
        Matthew Bobrowski <repnop@...gle.com>,
        Ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, kernel@...labora.com,
        Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@...gle.com>,
        LTP List <ltp@...ts.linux.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/9] Test the new fanotify FAN_FS_ERROR event

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 1:57 AM Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
<krisman@...labora.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?

Thanks,
Amir.