Re: [PATCH 0/6] btrfs-progs: Fixes for valgrind errors during fsck-tests

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On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 08:59:16AM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2020/3/25 下午10:42, David Sterba wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 06:53:09PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> >> This patchset can be fetched from github:
> >> https://github.com/adam900710/btrfs-progs/tree/valgrind_fixes
> >>
> >> Inspired by that long-existing-but-I-can't-reproduce v5.1 bug, I will
> >> never trust D=asan/D=uban anymore, and run valgrind on all fsck-tests.
> >>
> >> The patchset is the result from the latest valgrind runs.
> >>
> >> The first patch is to make "make INSTRUMENT=valgrind test-fsck" run
> >> smoothly without false alerts due to mount/umount failure with valgrind.
> > 
> > Thanks, that's great. In addition to that, all commands that use the
> > SUDO_HELPER/root_helper won't pass through valgrind. For maximum
> > coverage we might want to remove the helper from the subcommands of
> > 'btrfs'. From a quick scan I found a lot of them and I'm not sure that
> > all are required. There's a lot of copy&paste in the tests, so that
> > would have to be cleaned up, or we leave it as it is and run the whole
> > tests under root.
> 
> The root fix is, like what we did for lowmem mode, injecting valgrind to
> proper location.
> 
> Currently I take a shortcut to reuse current infrastructure, but the
> root fix would need to inject INSTRUMENT directly before
> "btrfs/mkfs.btrfs/btrfs-convert", so that sudo_helper won't be a problem.

That's a great idea. For some reason I thought that valgrind refused to
work under root but that's not true. Injecting the instrumentation only
to the tools built from git is exactly what we want.



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