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<title>tests: Use dhclient --no-pid for namespaces in two_guests tests</title>
<updated>2022-07-22T17:42:18+00:00</updated>
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<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-07-15T05:21:37+00:00</published>
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Before starting the guests, these tests configure addresses in a pasta
namespace using dhclient.  However, because it's a user namespace, it's
not running as "real" root and can't write to the dhclient pid file.
This doesn't stop it working, but causes an ugly error message which we
can avoid by using the --no-pid option.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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Before starting the guests, these tests configure addresses in a pasta
namespace using dhclient.  However, because it's a user namespace, it's
not running as "real" root and can't write to the dhclient pid file.
This doesn't stop it working, but causes an ugly error message which we
can avoid by using the --no-pid option.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>tests: Remove unnecessary ^D in passt_in_ns teardown</title>
<updated>2022-07-22T17:42:18+00:00</updated>
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<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-07-15T05:21:35+00:00</published>
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teardown_passt_in_ns() sends a ^D to the NS pane, which appears to be
intended to terminate the nsenter running there, leaving the namespace.
However, we've also sent a ^D to the PASST pane which will exit the pasta
instance which created the namespace.  With the namespace destroyed the
nsenter in the NS pane will be killed, so it does not need to be exited
explicitly.

In fact sending the extra ^D can be harmful, since it will exit the shell
in which the nsenter was run, causing the whole pane to be closed.  That
can then mean that the "pane_wait NS" hangs indefinitely.  I believe this
will sometimes work, because there's a race between the various options
here, but it should be more reliable without the extra ^D.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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teardown_passt_in_ns() sends a ^D to the NS pane, which appears to be
intended to terminate the nsenter running there, leaving the namespace.
However, we've also sent a ^D to the PASST pane which will exit the pasta
instance which created the namespace.  With the namespace destroyed the
nsenter in the NS pane will be killed, so it does not need to be exited
explicitly.

In fact sending the extra ^D can be harmful, since it will exit the shell
in which the nsenter was run, causing the whole pane to be closed.  That
can then mean that the "pane_wait NS" hangs indefinitely.  I believe this
will sometimes work, because there's a race between the various options
here, but it should be more reliable without the extra ^D.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>tests: Fix detection of empty 'hout' responses in passt{,_in_ns} tests</title>
<updated>2022-07-22T17:41:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-07-15T05:21:31+00:00</published>
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The dhcp/passt and dhcp/passt_in_ns tests at least, and maybe others
use 'hout' commands that need to be able to detect empty output.
However, we don't set PS1, which means the screen-scraping logic which
detects this may not be reliable.  In addition, if the host is using a
recent bash, it will have bracketed paste mode enabled which will also
add escape codes which will mess up the empty output detection.

Set the prompt and disable bracketed paste mode from the passt and
passt_in_ns setups to avoid these problems.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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The dhcp/passt and dhcp/passt_in_ns tests at least, and maybe others
use 'hout' commands that need to be able to detect empty output.
However, we don't set PS1, which means the screen-scraping logic which
detects this may not be reliable.  In addition, if the host is using a
recent bash, it will have bracketed paste mode enabled which will also
add escape codes which will mess up the empty output detection.

Set the prompt and disable bracketed paste mode from the passt and
passt_in_ns setups to avoid these problems.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>test: Drop further ^D in passt demo teardown</title>
<updated>2022-07-22T17:41:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2022-07-21T12:01:28+00:00</published>
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Similar case as the one fixed by David's patch "tests: Remove
unnecessary ^D in passt_in_ns teardown": we happen to pseudo-randomly
close panes by unnecessarily exiting the parent shells there, and
subsequent pane_wait directives hang.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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Similar case as the one fixed by David's patch "tests: Remove
unnecessary ^D in passt_in_ns teardown": we happen to pseudo-randomly
close panes by unnecessarily exiting the parent shells there, and
subsequent pane_wait directives hang.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>tests: Explicitly list test files in test/run, remove "onlyfor" support</title>
<updated>2022-07-13T23:32:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-07-06T07:29:06+00:00</published>
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Currently test/run uses wildcards to run all of the tests in a directory.
However, that wildcard list is filtered down by the "onlyfor" directives
in the test files... usually to a single file.

Therefore, just explicitly list the files we *really* want to run for this
test mode.  This makes it easier to see at the top level what tests will
be executed, and to change that list temporarily while debugging specific
failures.

This means the "onlyfor" directive no longer has any purpose, and we can
remove it.  "onlyfor" was also the only used of the $MODE variable, so we
can remove that too.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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Currently test/run uses wildcards to run all of the tests in a directory.
However, that wildcard list is filtered down by the "onlyfor" directives
in the test files... usually to a single file.

Therefore, just explicitly list the files we *really* want to run for this
test mode.  This makes it easier to see at the top level what tests will
be executed, and to change that list temporarily while debugging specific
failures.

This means the "onlyfor" directive no longer has any purpose, and we can
remove it.  "onlyfor" was also the only used of the $MODE variable, so we
can remove that too.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>tests: Move mbuto download and execution to asset build</title>
<updated>2022-07-13T23:32:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-07-06T07:29:00+00:00</published>
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Move the download of mbuto and using it to create a sample initramfs to
the asset build makefile, rather than embedding it in the test scripts
themselves.

The two_guests tests used to use two separate copies of the mbuto
image.  As an initramfs the mbuto image is strictly readonly though,
so that's not necessary.  So, also use the same image for both guests.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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Move the download of mbuto and using it to create a sample initramfs to
the asset build makefile, rather than embedding it in the test scripts
themselves.

The two_guests tests used to use two separate copies of the mbuto
image.  As an initramfs the mbuto image is strictly readonly though,
so that's not necessary.  So, also use the same image for both guests.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>Invoke specific qemu-system-* binaries</title>
<updated>2022-07-13T23:32:42+00:00</updated>
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<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-07-06T07:28:58+00:00</published>
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A lot of tests and examples invoke qemu with the command "kvm".  However,
as far as I can tell, "kvm" being aliased to the appropriate qemu system
binary is Debian specific.  The binary names from qemu upstream -
qemu-system-$ARCH - also aren't universal, but they are more common (they
should be good for both Debian and Fedora at least).

In order to still get KVM acceleration when available, we use the option
"-M accel=kvm:tcg" to tell qemu to try using either KVM or TCG in that
order

A number of the places we invoked "kvm" are expecting specifically an x86
guest, and so it's also safer to explicitly invoke qemu-system-x86_64.

Some others appear to be independent of the target arch (just wanting the
same arch as the host to allow KVM acceleration).  Although I suspect there
may be more subtle x86 specific options in the qemu command lines, attempt
to preserve arch independence by using $(uname -m).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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A lot of tests and examples invoke qemu with the command "kvm".  However,
as far as I can tell, "kvm" being aliased to the appropriate qemu system
binary is Debian specific.  The binary names from qemu upstream -
qemu-system-$ARCH - also aren't universal, but they are more common (they
should be good for both Debian and Fedora at least).

In order to still get KVM acceleration when available, we use the option
"-M accel=kvm:tcg" to tell qemu to try using either KVM or TCG in that
order

A number of the places we invoked "kvm" are expecting specifically an x86
guest, and so it's also safer to explicitly invoke qemu-system-x86_64.

Some others appear to be independent of the target arch (just wanting the
same arch as the host to allow KVM acceleration).  Although I suspect there
may be more subtle x86 specific options in the qemu command lines, attempt
to preserve arch independence by using $(uname -m).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>test: Add external mbuto profile, drop udhcpc, and switch to it</title>
<updated>2022-07-06T06:09:26+00:00</updated>
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<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2022-06-23T12:34:54+00:00</published>
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This depends on a future change in mbuto to accept external profile
files. Add a file defining what we need for tests and demos, dropping
udhcpc and script as they're not needed anymore, and switch to it.

Suggested-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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This depends on a future change in mbuto to accept external profile
files. Add a file defining what we need for tests and demos, dropping
udhcpc and script as they're not needed anymore, and switch to it.

Suggested-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>Use dhclient instead of udhcpc</title>
<updated>2022-06-15T07:38:10+00:00</updated>
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<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-06-10T02:32:44+00:00</published>
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For some reason, the passt/pasta tests and examples use dhclient for
DHCPv6, but in most cases use udhcpc for DHCPv4.  Change it to use dhclient
for both DHCPv4 and DHCPv6.  This means one less tool we need for testing,
plus dhclient is easily available on Fedora whereas udhcpc is not.

Note that the passt tests still rely on udhcpc indirectly because mbuto
wants to put it into the guest images it generates.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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For some reason, the passt/pasta tests and examples use dhclient for
DHCPv6, but in most cases use udhcpc for DHCPv4.  Change it to use dhclient
for both DHCPv4 and DHCPv6.  This means one less tool we need for testing,
plus dhclient is easily available on Fedora whereas udhcpc is not.

Note that the passt tests still rely on udhcpc indirectly because mbuto
wants to put it into the guest images it generates.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<title>Tweak dhclient arguments for readability</title>
<updated>2022-06-15T07:38:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Gibson</name>
<email>david@gibson.dropbear.id.au</email>
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<published>2022-06-10T02:32:43+00:00</published>
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A number of tests and examples use dhclient in both IPv4 and IPv6 modes.
We use "dhclient -6" for IPv6, but usually just "dhclient" for IPv4.  Add
an explicit "-4" argument to make it more clear and explicit.

In addition, when dhclient is run from within pasta it usually won't be
"real" root, and so will not have access to write the default global pid
file.  This results in a mostly harmless but irritating error:
    Can't create /var/run/dhclient.pid: Permission denied
We can avoid that by using the --no-pid flag to dhclient.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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A number of tests and examples use dhclient in both IPv4 and IPv6 modes.
We use "dhclient -6" for IPv6, but usually just "dhclient" for IPv4.  Add
an explicit "-4" argument to make it more clear and explicit.

In addition, when dhclient is run from within pasta it usually won't be
"real" root, and so will not have access to write the default global pid
file.  This results in a mostly harmless but irritating error:
    Can't create /var/run/dhclient.pid: Permission denied
We can avoid that by using the --no-pid flag to dhclient.

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