Re: [PATCH] selftests: ublk: fix behavior when fio is not installed

From: Uday Shankar
Date: Tue Sep 16 2025 - 20:36:12 EST


On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 04:11:53PM -0600, Uday Shankar wrote:
> Some ublk selftests have strange behavior when fio is not installed.
> While most tests behave correctly (run if they don't need fio, or skip
> if they need fio), the following tests have different behavior:
>
> - test_null_01 and test_null_02 try to run fio without checking if it
> exists first, and fail on any failure of the fio command (including
> "fio command not found"). So these tests fail when they should skip.
> - test_stress_05 runs fio without checking if it exists first, but
> doesn't fail on fio command failure. This test passes, but that pass
> is misleading as the test doesn't do anything useful without fio
> installed. So this test passes when it should skip.
>
> Fix these issues by adding _have_program fio checks to the top of all
> three of these tests.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Please disregard; it was pointed out to me that I missed a few tests.
Will post an updated v2 soon.