linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] selftests: Remove forced unbuffering for test running

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Date:   Tue, 21 May 2019 08:12:43 -0600
From:   shuah <shuah@...nel.org>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        shuah <shuah@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] selftests: Remove forced unbuffering for test running

On 5/20/19 11:21 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2019 00:37:48 +0200,
> Kees Cook wrote:
>>
>> As it turns out, the "stdbuf" command will actually force all
>> subprocesses into unbuffered output, and some implementations of "echo"
>> turn into single-character writes, which utterly wrecks writes to /sys
>> and /proc files.
>>
>> Instead, drop the "stdbuf" usage, and for any tests that want explicit
>> flushing between newlines, they'll have to add "fflush(stdout);" as
>> needed.
>>
>> Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
>> Fixes: 5c069b6dedef ("selftests: Move test output to diagnostic lines")
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> 
> Tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
> 
> BTW, this might be specific to shell invocation.  As in the original
> discussion thread, it starts working when I replace "echo" with
> "/usr/bin/echo".
> 
> Still it's not easy to control in a script itself, so dropping the
> unbuffered mode is certainly safer, yes.
> 
> Thanks!

Thank you both.

I will get this in for next rc.

-- Shuah