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<title>passt, branch 2022_08_24.60ffc5b</title>
<subtitle>Plug A Simple Socket Transport</subtitle>
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<title>Don't unnecessarily avoid CLOEXEC flags</title>
<updated>2022-08-24T16:01:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-08-23T06:31:51+00:00</published>
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There are several places in the passt code where we have lint overrides
because we're not adding CLOEXEC flags to open or other operations.
Comments suggest this is because it's before we fork() into the background
but we'll need those file descriptors after we're in the background.

However, as the name suggests CLOEXEC closes on exec(), not on fork().  The
only place we exec() is either super early invoke the avx2 version of the
binary, or when we start a shell in pasta mode, which certainly *doesn't*
require the fds in question.

Add the CLOEXEC flag in those places, and remove the lint overrides.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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There are several places in the passt code where we have lint overrides
because we're not adding CLOEXEC flags to open or other operations.
Comments suggest this is because it's before we fork() into the background
but we'll need those file descriptors after we're in the background.

However, as the name suggests CLOEXEC closes on exec(), not on fork().  The
only place we exec() is either super early invoke the avx2 version of the
binary, or when we start a shell in pasta mode, which certainly *doesn't*
require the fds in question.

Add the CLOEXEC flag in those places, and remove the lint overrides.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>gitignore README.plain.md</title>
<updated>2022-08-24T16:01:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-08-23T06:31:50+00:00</published>
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Add the generated README.plain.md file to .gitignore.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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Add the generated README.plain.md file to .gitignore.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>conf: Fix incorrect bounds checking for sock_path parameter</title>
<updated>2022-08-24T16:01:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-08-23T06:31:49+00:00</published>
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Looks like a copy-paste error where we're checking against the size of the
pcap field, rather than the sock_path field.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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Looks like a copy-paste error where we're checking against the size of the
pcap field, rather than the sock_path field.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>Makefile: Use more GNU-style directory variables, explicit docdir for OpenSUSE</title>
<updated>2022-08-21T20:25:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2022-08-21T09:23:54+00:00</published>
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It turns out that, while on most distributions "docdir" would be
/usr/share/doc, it's /usr/share/doc/packages/ on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
Use an explicit docdir as shown in:
  https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_cross_distribution_howto

and don't unnecessarily hardcode directory variables in the Makefile.
Otherwise, RPM builds for OpenSUSE will fail now that we have a README
there.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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It turns out that, while on most distributions "docdir" would be
/usr/share/doc, it's /usr/share/doc/packages/ on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
Use an explicit docdir as shown in:
  https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_cross_distribution_howto

and don't unnecessarily hardcode directory variables in the Makefile.
Otherwise, RPM builds for OpenSUSE will fail now that we have a README
there.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>test: debian: Export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive for sid</title>
<updated>2022-08-20T17:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2022-08-19T09:37:05+00:00</published>
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We start getting prompts about restarting outdated services: we're
using daily images but they might have been cached for a while now.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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We start getting prompts about restarting outdated services: we're
using daily images but they might have been cached for a while now.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>test: Kill qemu by pidfile rather than ^C</title>
<updated>2022-08-20T17:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-08-18T06:13:58+00:00</published>
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Currently in at least some of the testcases we kill qemu processes we're
done with by issuing a Control-C to the tmux panel it's running in.  That
makes things harder as we try to move towards allowing "headless" testing
without tmux.

So, instead always use an explicit kill on a pid derived from a pidfile
for killing qemu.  Note that we don't need to remove the pidfiles
afterwards, because qemu does that itself when terminated.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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Currently in at least some of the testcases we kill qemu processes we're
done with by issuing a Control-C to the tmux panel it's running in.  That
makes things harder as we try to move towards allowing "headless" testing
without tmux.

So, instead always use an explicit kill on a pid derived from a pidfile
for killing qemu.  Note that we don't need to remove the pidfiles
afterwards, because qemu does that itself when terminated.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>test: Log debugging output from test script</title>
<updated>2022-08-20T17:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-18T06:13:57+00:00</published>
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The test scripts run with sh -e, which means they will stop if any commands
return an error.  That's generally desirable, because we won't continue
after things are hopeless due to an earlier step failing.

Unfortunately, the tmux setup we run the script in means it's not obvious
where any error messages related to such a failure will go.  Depending on
exactly where the error occurs they might go to the original terminal
hidden behind tmux, or they might go to a tmux panel that's not visible in
the normal layouts.

To make it easier to find such error message, redirect direct output and
errors from the test script itself to a 'script.log' file in the logs
directory.  When in DEBUG=1 mode, additionaly 'set -x' so we log all the
commands we execute to that file.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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The test scripts run with sh -e, which means they will stop if any commands
return an error.  That's generally desirable, because we won't continue
after things are hopeless due to an earlier step failing.

Unfortunately, the tmux setup we run the script in means it's not obvious
where any error messages related to such a failure will go.  Depending on
exactly where the error occurs they might go to the original terminal
hidden behind tmux, or they might go to a tmux panel that's not visible in
the normal layouts.

To make it easier to find such error message, redirect direct output and
errors from the test script itself to a 'script.log' file in the logs
directory.  When in DEBUG=1 mode, additionaly 'set -x' so we log all the
commands we execute to that file.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>test: Use shutdown test for pasta</title>
<updated>2022-08-20T17:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-18T06:13:56+00:00</published>
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For the passt and passt_in_ns tests we have a "shutdown" testcase that
checks for any errors from the passt process we were using (including
valgrind warnings).  Do the same for pasta tests, so that we catch any
error codes from the pasta process.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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For the passt and passt_in_ns tests we have a "shutdown" testcase that
checks for any errors from the passt process we were using (including
valgrind warnings).  Do the same for pasta tests, so that we catch any
error codes from the pasta process.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>test: Rename slightly misleading "valgrind" tests</title>
<updated>2022-08-20T17:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-18T06:13:55+00:00</published>
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The "valgrind" test cases are designed to pick up errors reported when
passt is running under valgrind.  But what it actually does is just kill
the passt process, then see if it had a non-zero exit code.  That means it
will equally well pick up any other problems which caused passt to exit
with an error status: either something detected within passt or as a result
of passt being killed by an unexpected signal.

The fact that the "valgrind" test is actually responsible for shutting down
the passt process is non-obvious and can lead to problems when selectively
running tests during debugging.

Rename the "valgrind" tests to "shutdown" tests and run it regardless of
whether we're using valgrind or not.  This allows us to remove an ugly
speacial case in the passt_in_ns teardown code.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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The "valgrind" test cases are designed to pick up errors reported when
passt is running under valgrind.  But what it actually does is just kill
the passt process, then see if it had a non-zero exit code.  That means it
will equally well pick up any other problems which caused passt to exit
with an error status: either something detected within passt or as a result
of passt being killed by an unexpected signal.

The fact that the "valgrind" test is actually responsible for shutting down
the passt process is non-obvious and can lead to problems when selectively
running tests during debugging.

Rename the "valgrind" tests to "shutdown" tests and run it regardless of
whether we're using valgrind or not.  This allows us to remove an ugly
speacial case in the passt_in_ns teardown code.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>test: Only select a single interface or gateway in tests</title>
<updated>2022-08-20T17:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-18T06:13:54+00:00</published>
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The queries we use in the test scripts to locate the external interface
or gateway can return multiple results.  We get away with this because the
way we parse command output only looks at the last line.  It's not really
correct, though, and improvements to our handling of command output will
mean it breaks.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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The queries we use in the test scripts to locate the external interface
or gateway can return multiple results.  We get away with this because the
way we parse command output only looks at the last line.  It's not really
correct, though, and improvements to our handling of command output will
mean it breaks.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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