Re: [PATCH 1/2] test/count: replace use of gdb with a LD_PRELOAD shim

Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] test/count: replace use of gdb with a LD_PRELOAD shim

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 22:04:36 +0300

To: David Bremner, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Tomi Ollila


On Sun, Oct 24 2021, David Bremner wrote:

> There is a certain amount of boilerplate to pass the call on the
> original function, so abstract it out as a C preprocessor macro, plus
> some extra includes in notmuch-test.h

Looks like good progress -- some comments...

> ---
>  test/T060-count.sh  | 29 +++++++++++++++++------------
>  test/notmuch-test.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/test/T060-count.sh b/test/T060-count.sh
> index 6ad80df9..acf51d88 100755
> --- a/test/T060-count.sh
> +++ b/test/T060-count.sh
> @@ -102,22 +102,27 @@ output=$(sed 's/^\(A Xapian exception [^:]*\):.*$/\1/' OUTPUT)
>  test_expect_equal "${output}" "A Xapian exception occurred opening database"
>  restore_database
>  
> -cat <<EOF > count-files.gdb
> -set breakpoint pending on
> -set logging file count-files-gdb.log
> -set logging on
> -break count_files
> -commands
> -shell cp /dev/null ${MAIL_DIR}/.notmuch/xapian/postlist.*
> -continue
> -end
> -run
> +make_shim qsm-shim<<EOF
> +#include <notmuch-test.h>
> +notmuch_status_t
> +notmuch_query_search_messages (notmuch_query_t *query, notmuch_messages_t **messages) {
> +  static notmuch_status_t (*orig_notmuch_query_search_messages)
> +	(notmuch_query_t *query, notmuch_messages_t **messages) = NULL;
> +  TEST_SAVE_ORIG(notmuch_query_search_messages);

The C preprocessor macro could do both of the lines above, deduplicating
orig_notmuch_query_search_messages and notmuch_query_search_messages to
one, but perhaps this way is clearer...(?)

> +
> +  /* XXX WARNING THIS CORRUPTS THE DATABASE */
> +  int fd = open("target_postlist",O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC);
missing space after ,

> +  if (fd < 0)
> +    exit (8);

close(fd) ?

> +
> +  return orig_notmuch_query_search_messages(query, messages);
> +}
>  EOF
>  
>  backup_database
>  test_begin_subtest "error message from query_search_messages"
> -${TEST_GDB} --batch-silent --return-child-result -x count-files.gdb \
> -    --args notmuch count --output=files '*' 2>OUTPUT 1>/dev/null
> +ln -s ${MAIL_DIR}/.notmuch/xapian/postlist.* target_postlist
> +notmuch_with_shim qsm-shim count --output=files '*' 2>OUTPUT 1>/dev/null
>  cat <<EOF > EXPECTED
>  notmuch count: A Xapian exception occurred
>  A Xapian exception occurred performing query
> diff --git a/test/notmuch-test.h b/test/notmuch-test.h
> index 34dbb8e0..8613a299 100644
> --- a/test/notmuch-test.h
> +++ b/test/notmuch-test.h
> @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
>  #include <stdio.h>
>  #include <stdlib.h>
>  #include <notmuch.h>
> +#include <dlfcn.h>
> +#include <sys/types.h>
> +#include <sys/stat.h>
> +#include <fcntl.h>
>  
>  inline static void
>  expect0 (int line, notmuch_status_t ret)
> @@ -14,4 +18,22 @@ expect0 (int line, notmuch_status_t ret)
>  }
>  
>  #define EXPECT0(v)  expect0 (__LINE__, v);
> +
> +#define TEST_SAVE_ORIG(func) \
> +  if (! orig_##func) { \
> +    void *handle; \
> +    char *error; \
> +    handle = dlopen("libnotmuch.so", RTLD_LAZY); \

could have void *handle = dlopen... to reduce one macro line

> +    if (! handle) { \
> +      fputs(dlerror(), stderr); \
> +      exit(1); \
> +    } \
> +    orig_##func = dlsym(handle, #func); \
> +    if ((error = dlerror()) != NULL) { \
> +      fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", error); \
> +      exit(1); \
> +    } \
> +  }
> +
> +
>  #endif
> -- 
> 2.33.0
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