linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC 0/1] ext4/054: Should we remove auto and quick group?

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:43:25 +0800
From:   Eryu Guan <eguan@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     fstests <fstests@...r.kernel.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@...wei.com>, tytso@....edu,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, chenlong <chenlongcl.chen@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/1] ext4/054: Should we remove auto and quick group?

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 11:32:01AM +0530, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
> Hello Zhang/Ted,
> 
> Looks like the issue fixed by patches at [1], were observed with fault injection
> testing and with errors=continue mount option. But were not cc'd to stable.
> 
> Do you think those should be cc'd to stable tree?
> 
> Meanwhile, I was thinking we should anyway remove auto and quick group from this
> test as it could trigger a bug on in older kernel targets. Thoughts?

IMO, ext4/054 is a targeted regression test and should be in auto group,
which ensures the bug doesn't get re-introduced in future.

I think you could just skip this test to fit your kernel version, e.g.

echo ext4/054 > ext4.exclude
./check -X ext4.exclude

Thanks,
Eryu

> 
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210908120850.4012324-1-yi.zhang@huawei.com/
> 
> Ritesh Harjani (1):
>   ext4/054: Remove auto and quick group
> 
>  tests/ext4/054 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --
> 2.31.1