On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 10:55:52AM -0700, Bobby Eshleman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 04:48:28PM +0000, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 06:00:06PM -0700, Bobby Eshleman wrote:
> > > From: Bobby Eshleman <[email protected]>
> > > 
> > > Save/restore pipefail to not mistakenly trip the if-condition
> > > in wait_for_listener().
> > > 
> > > awk doesn't gracefully handle SIGPIPE with a non-zero exit code, so grep
> > > exiting upon finding a match causes false-positives when the pipefail
> > > option is used. This will enable pipefail usage, so that we can losing
> > > failures when piping test output into log() functions.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: a4a65c6fe08b ("selftests/vsock: add initial vmtest.sh for vsock")
> > > Signed-off-by: Bobby Eshleman <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > >  tools/testing/selftests/vsock/vmtest.sh | 12 ++++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vsock/vmtest.sh 
> > > b/tools/testing/selftests/vsock/vmtest.sh
> > > index 561600814bef..ec3ff443f49a 100755
> > > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vsock/vmtest.sh
> > > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vsock/vmtest.sh
> > > @@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ wait_for_listener()
> > >   local port=$1
> > >   local interval=$2
> > >   local max_intervals=$3
> > > + local old_pipefail
> > >   local protocol=tcp
> > >   local pattern
> > >   local i
> > > @@ -251,6 +252,13 @@ wait_for_listener()
> > >  
> > >   # for tcp protocol additionally check the socket state
> > >   [ "${protocol}" = "tcp" ] && pattern="${pattern}0A"
> > > +
> > > + # 'grep -q' exits on match, sending SIGPIPE to 'awk', which exits with
> > > + # an error, causing the if-condition to fail when pipefail is set.
> > > + # Instead, temporarily disable pipefail and restore it later.
> > > + old_pipefail=$(set -o | awk '/^pipefail[[:space:]]+(on|off)$/{print 
> > > $2}')
> > > + set +o pipefail
> > > +
> > >   for i in $(seq "${max_intervals}"); do
> > >           if awk '{print $2" "$4}' /proc/net/"${protocol}"* | \
> > >              grep -q "${pattern}"; then
> > 
> > Hi Bobby,
> > 
> > I agree this is a problem. But I'm wondering if you considered
> > moving the pattern matching into the awk script. I'm no awk expert.
> > But suspect that would lead to a more elegant solution.
> > 
> 
> I bet you are right.
> 
> Playing around with awk, I find that this seems to work:
> 
> $ pattern=":$(printf '%04X' ${port}) 0A"
> $ awk -v pattern="${pattern}" 'BEGIN {rc=1} $2" "$4 ~ pattern {rc=0}
>       END {exit rc}' /proc/net/tcp && echo FOUND
> 
> I think it beats doing the save/restore on pipefail?

Yes, I think so.

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