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Message-ID: <20130524201655.GA23086@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 16:16:55 -0400 From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> To: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, xfs@....sgi.com Subject: Re: XFS assertion from truncate. (3.10-rc2) On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 06:03:00PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > xfstest generic/193 is *supposed* to test behaviour of suid/sgid bits > and clearing them is various situations. > > You know what I'm about to say, don't you? The test doesn't test > what it thinks it is testing. it puts the destination file in root > directory of the xfstests harness, not in the filesystems being > tested. awesome, two bugs for the price of one! > So, on all my machines, it runs on ext3 filesystems, never on the > ext4, btrfs, xfs, etc filesystems that I'm actually testing. > > That's beside the point, because it doesn't test truncate behaviour. > But at least I know now why my attempts to reproduce the problem > didn't work... > > Right, patch below should fix the problem. Haven't seen anything out of the ordinary since I applied that, so I'd call it good. > What a frustrating bug. Now, where's my bottle of scotch? heh, enjoy the weekend. Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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