linux-ext4 - [PATCH 18/33] generic/338: skip test if we can't mount with strictatime

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Message-ID: <176169820315.1433624.14341009274441357914.stgit@frogsfrogsfrogs>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:25:07 -0700
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>
To: djwong@...nel.org, zlang@...hat.com
Cc: neal@...pa.dev, fstests@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, joannelkoong@...il.com, bernd@...ernd.com
Subject: [PATCH 18/33] generic/338: skip test if we can't mount with
 strictatime

From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@...nel.org>

If we can't mount a filesystem with strictatime, skip this test.

Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>
---
 tests/generic/338 |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/generic/338 b/tests/generic/338
index d138c023960f8d..450f34889b96ef 100755
--- a/tests/generic/338
+++ b/tests/generic/338
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ _dmerror_init

 # Use strictatime mount option here to force atime updates, which could help
 # trigger the NULL pointer dereference on ext4 more easily
-_dmerror_mount "-o strictatime"
+_dmerror_mount "-o strictatime" || _notrun "could not mount with strictatime"
 _dmerror_load_error_table

 # flush dmerror block device buffers and drop all caches, force reading from