[PATCH v2] common/rc: Modify _require_batched_discard to improve test coverage

From: Ojaswin Mujoo
Date: Mon May 16 2022 - 02:40:08 EST


A recent ext4 patch discussed [1] that some devices (eg LVMs) can
have a discard granularity as big as 42MB which makes it larger
than the group size of ext4 FS with 1k BS. This causes the FITRIM
IOCTL to fail.

This case was not correctly handled by this test since
"_require_batched_discard" incorrectly interpreted the FITRIM
failure as SCRATCH_DEV not supporting the IOCTL. This caused the test
to report "not run" instead of "failed" in case of large discard granularity.

Fix "_require_batched_discard" to use a more accurate method
to determine if discard is supported.

[1] commit 173b6e383d2
ext4: avoid trim error on fs with small groups

Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Changes since v1 [1]

* Changed $RET to a local variable
* Fixed the grep command

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220401055713.634842-1-ojaswin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

common/rc | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
index e2d3d72a..f366e409 100644
--- a/common/rc
+++ b/common/rc
@@ -3858,7 +3858,13 @@ _require_batched_discard()
exit 1
fi
_require_fstrim
- $FSTRIM_PROG $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 || _notrun "FITRIM not supported on $1"
+
+ grep -q "not supported" <($FSTRIM_PROG $1 2>&1)
+ local ret=$?
+ if [ "$ret" = "0" ]
+ then
+ _notrun "FITRIM not supported on $1"
+ fi
}

_require_dumpe2fs()
--
2.27.0