#!/bin/sh # ensure that tail -F doesn't leak inotify resources # Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src print_ver_ tail grep '^#define HAVE_INOTIFY 1' "$CONFIG_HEADER" >/dev/null \ || skip_ 'inotify required' require_strace_ 'inotify_add_watch,inotify_rm_watch' # Quickly skip on remote file systems df --local . >/dev/null 2>&1 || skip_ 'inotify not used on remote file system' check_tail_output() { local delay="$1" grep "$tail_re" out > /dev/null || { sleep $delay; return 1; } } # Wait up to 25.5 seconds for grep REGEXP 'out' to succeed. grep_timeout() { tail_re="$1" retry_delay_ check_tail_output .1 8; } check_strace() { local delay="$1" grep "$strace_re" strace.out > /dev/null || { sleep $delay; return 1; } } cleanup_fail() { cat out warn_ $1 fail=1 } # Terminate any background tail process cleanup_() { kill $pid 2>/dev/null && wait $pid; } fastpoll='-s.1 --max-unchanged-stats=1' touch k || framework_failure_ # Note the timeout guard isn't strictly necessary here, # however without it strace will ignore SIGTERM. # strace does always honor SIGTERM with the -I2 option, # though that's not available on RHEL6 for example. timeout 180 strace -e inotify_add_watch,inotify_rm_watch -o strace.out \ tail -F $fastpoll k >> out 2>&1 & pid=$! reverted_to_polling_=0 for i in $(seq 2); do echo $i echo 'tailed' > k; # Wait for watch on (new) file strace_re='inotify_add_watch.*MODIFY' retry_delay_ check_strace .1 8 || no_watch_=1 # Assume this is not because we're leaking # (resources may already be depleted) # The explicit check for inotify_rm_watch should confirm that. grep -F 'reverting to polling' out >/dev/null && skip_ 'inotify unused' # Otherwise failure is unknown test "$no_watch_" && { cat out; framework_failure_ 'no inotify_add_watch'; } mv k k.tmp # wait for tail to detect the rename grep_timeout 'inaccessible' || { cleanup_fail 'failed to detect rename'; break; } # Note we strace here rather than consuming all available watches # to be more efficient, but more importantly avoid depleting resources. # Note also available resources can currently be tuned with: # sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=$smallish_number # However that impacts all processes for the current user, and also # may not be supported in future, instead being auto scaled to RAM # like the Linux epoll resources were. if test "$i" -gt 1; then strace_re='inotify_rm_watch' retry_delay_ check_strace .1 8 || { cleanup_fail 'failed to find inotify_rm_watch syscall'; break; } fi >out && >strace.out || framework_failure_ 'failed to reset output files' done cleanup_ Exit $fail