On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/20/2016 03:09 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Andrew Pinski <pins...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 07/20/2016 02:21 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:48:09PM +0530, Senthil Kumar Selvaraj wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I see this for some of the larger C frontend tests with lots of
>>>>>>> expected
>>>>>>> errors/warnings as well.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I also see this for tests with small output, but it happens more
>>>>> often for tests with big output.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you guys getting this everytime or is it sporadic?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Not always, but usually. It seems related to how busy the system is,
>>>>> but that could be my imagination.
>>>>>
>>>>> It usually happens for a bunch of tests at the same time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not always is the output just cut short: some random characters
>>>>> are inserted sometimes (in the individual log files, the consolidated
>>>>> log file does not have those; it looks like pointers).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, there was a kernel bug a while back which had similar behavior.
>>>> What
>>>> kernel version are you running?
>>>
>>>
>>> I am running with 4.2. Let me find the old email and see I should
>>> include it in our tree (I thought we did).
>>
>>
>> Found it. It looks like it was not put in yet:
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96311
>>
>> I know Jakub asked about a year ago saying it was not 4.1-rc1 yet.
>> Can someone look to see if it even made it into newer kernels?
>
> I know "a" fix is in modern Fedora kernels and I thought it came from
> upstream.
>
> Jeff
>
commit 1a48632ffed61352a7810ce089dc5a8bcd505a60
Author: Peter Hurley <pe...@hurleysoftware.com>
Date: Mon Apr 13 13:24:34 2015 -0400
pty: Fix input race when closing
A read() from a pty master may mistakenly indicate EOF (errno == -EIO)
after the pty slave has closed, even though input data remains to be read.
For example,
--
H.J.
