Re: [Ping][PATCH] perf test: Checking BPF metadata collection fails on version string

[Ian Rogers]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 5:26 AM Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> commit edf2cadf01e8f ("perf test: add test for BPF metadata collection")
>
> fails consistently on the version string check. The perf version
> string on some of the constant integration test machines contains
> characters with special meaning in grep's extended regular expression
> matching algorithm. The output of perf version is:
>
>  # perf version
>  perf version 6.17.0-20250814.rc1.git20.24ea63ea3877.63.fc42.s390x+git
>  #
>
> and the '+' character has special meaning in egrep command.
> Also the use of egrep is deprecated.
>
> Change the perf version string check to fixed character matching
> and get rid of egrep's warning being deprecated. Use grep -F instead.
>
> Output before:
>  # perf test -F 102
>  Checking BPF metadata collection
>  egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
>  Basic BPF metadata test [Failed invalid output]
>  102: BPF metadata collection test             : FAILED!
>  #
>
> Output after:
>  # perf test -F 102
>  Checking BPF metadata collection
>  Basic BPF metadata test [Success]
>  102: BPF metadata collection test             : Ok
>  #
>
> Fixes: edf2cadf01e8f ("perf test: add test for BPF metadata collection")
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Blake Jones <blakejones@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Ian

> ---
>  tools/perf/tests/shell/test_bpf_metadata.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_bpf_metadata.sh b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_bpf_metadata.sh
> index 69e3c2055134..be67d56e0f09 100755
> --- a/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_bpf_metadata.sh
> +++ b/tools/perf/tests/shell/test_bpf_metadata.sh
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ test_bpf_metadata() {
>                 /perf_version/ {
>                         if (entry) print $NF;
>                 }
> -       ' | egrep "$VERS" > /dev/null
> +       ' | grep -qF "$VERS"
>         then
>                 echo "Basic BPF metadata test [Failed invalid output]"
>                 err=1
> --
> 2.50.1
>
>