Integration tests: run git daemon on a random-but-bind()able port #5783

nalind · 2024-10-16T20:21:21Z

What type of PR is this?

/kind flake

What this PR does / why we need it:

Use a listener helper to bind to an available-according-to-the-kernel listening port and run a command with its stdio more or less tied to the connection instead of trying to launch a git daemon directly using a port number that we can only guess is available.

How to verify it

Our build-using-a-git-context tests should continue to pass.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

None

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Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?

None

Luap99

This looks like a bit overkill, in podman we have this long solved by using random_free_port() which seem to hold up fine there.
https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/740f1d1fc710d4560d2463b11333cc9ad68e22bd/test/system/helpers.network.bash#L306-L329

I think this is simpler for test issues to debug then dealing with custom written binary that can fail in a lot of unexpected ways. It will also means we would have to ship this binary in the test package for gating tests

nalind · 2024-10-18T15:56:50Z

Now that I know about it, it's tempting, but it's not appreciably shorter, and debugging Go code is easier than attempting to copy and keep up-to-date shell functions that live in a different repository.
Taking tests that were written here, incorporating and reusing them elsewhere, and then expecting them to not require any upkeep, is an unrealistic expectation to place on any project. I can add the helper binary to the .spec file, though, that's simple enough.

Luap99 · 2024-10-18T16:15:53Z

Well debugging this custom go code may be easier for you but I doubt it is easier for the person running these tests on gating env that have to look at any failures and make sense of them such as @edsantiago.

In any case you are the main maintainer here and I am certainly not going to block this if it helps to solve a flake.

Luap99 · 2024-10-18T16:18:06Z

tests/inet/inet.go

+	args := flag.Args()
+	if len(args) < 1 {
+		fmt.Printf("Usage: %s [-port-file filename] [-pid-file filename] command ...\n", filepath.Base(os.Args[0]))
+		return


should this exit(1)?

Yeah, probably. Changing it.

Luap99 · 2024-10-18T16:18:10Z

tests/inet/inet.go

+		return
+	}
+	// Start listening without specifying a port number.
+	ln, err := net.ListenTCP("tcp", &net.TCPAddr{})


would it make sense to at least bind 127.0.0.1, there seems little reason to expose this externally

Hmm, leaving it empty means we don't have to care about ipv4/ipv6 here, though.

I mean fair enough, it should not be a problem though as all test connect to localhost which generally should try both ::1 and 127.0.0.1 so I doubt it causes issues.

Luap99 · 2024-10-18T16:18:26Z

tests/inet/inet.go

+	colon := strings.LastIndex(addrString, ":")
+	if colon == -1 {
+		logrus.Fatalf("finding the start of the port number in %q", addrString)
+	}
+	// Write the port number part to the specified file, if one was specified.
+	portString := addrString[colon+1:]


you can use net.SplitHostPort()

Oh, nice. Switching to it.

edsantiago · 2024-10-21T14:50:09Z

Makefile

@@ -110,6 +110,9 @@ bin/copy: $(SOURCES) tests/copy/copy.go
 bin/tutorial: $(SOURCES) tests/tutorial/tutorial.go
 	$(GO_BUILD) $(BUILDAH_LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(BUILDFLAGS) ./tests/tutorial/tutorial.go

+bin/inet: tests/inet/inet.go


This will need to be shipped in the buildah-tests package, presumably in /usr/bin. Could I encourage you to name it buildah-inet-helper or something less generic?

cc @lsm5, @jnovy, because you will need to deal with this in gating.yaml on all affected branches

The scripts will need to be told where it is regardless, since it won't be in ../bin relative to where the scripts end up packaged. At that point it's the packager's decision, as it is with the other test helpers.

Luap99

go code LGTM

Luap99 · 2024-10-21T15:19:03Z

rpm/buildah.spec

@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ export BUILDTAGS+=" btrfs_noversion exclude_graphdriver_btrfs"
 %gobuild -o bin/imgtype ./tests/imgtype
 %gobuild -o bin/copy ./tests/copy
 %gobuild -o bin/tutorial ./tests/tutorial
+%gobuild -o bin/inet ./tests/inet


this also needs to be added to the install section like bin/copy and then listed under %files tests

And since we had this discussion last week about podman-tests do we ship buildah-tests in RHEL as well? I really doubt we want to support these test helpers?

Ah, right. Adding.

Luap99 · 2024-10-21T15:21:43Z

tests/inet/inet.go

+		return
+	}
+	// Start listening without specifying a port number.
+	ln, err := net.ListenTCP("tcp", &net.TCPAddr{})


I mean fair enough, it should not be a problem though as all test connect to localhost which generally should try both ::1 and 127.0.0.1 so I doubt it causes issues.

Use a listener helper to bind to an available-according-to-the-kernel listening port and run a command with its stdio more or less tied to the connection instead of trying to launch a git daemon directly using a port number that we can only guess is available. Signed-off-by: Nalin Dahyabhai <[email protected]>

This wrapper doesn't need to load anything from helpers.bash, because the various .bats files already do so on their own. Signed-off-by: Nalin Dahyabhai <[email protected]>

Luap99

LGTM

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rhatdan · 2024-10-22T10:18:34Z

/lgtm

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