[OE-core] [PATCH 0/1] sanity.bbclass: check for validity of TMPDIR

ChenQi Qi.Chen at windriver.com
Fri Nov 15 02:44:13 UTC 2013 

Hi All,

This cover letter contains some testing records.

Best Regards,
Chen Qi

On 11/14/2013 09:07 PM, Qi.Chen at windriver.com wrote:
> From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
>
> This patch checks the validity of TMPDIR.
>
> The TMPDIR must match the following regexp.
> ^/[a-zA-Z0-9\-_/.~]+$
>
> Detailed tests about why I came up with this regexp are displayed at the end of this cover letter.
>
> A major reason for why TMPDIR cannot support many special chars such as @ and # is that these
> special chars are used by the sed command as its field separator in our recipes.
>
> And here are things I want to make sure of.
> 1. For now, TMPDIR must be an absolute path. So do we need to make it support relative path?
> 2. I included the tilde (~) into the valid char set because `bitbake world' succeeded. But
>     it's still possible the the tilde (~) will serve as the field separator in sed. So is it
>     OK that I include it into the valid char set?
>
>
> **********************  TESTING RECORDS  ****************************************
> Test Case 1: use `bitbake minimal' on paths containing special chars
> Here's the output.
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/`_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/^_contained"
> RESULT: SUCCESS
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/~_contained"
> RESULT: SUCCESS
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/<_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/=_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/>_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/|_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/ _contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/,_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/;_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/:_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/!_contained"
> RESULT: SUCCESS
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/?_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/'_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/\"_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/(_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/)_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/[_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/]_contained"
> RESULT: SUCCESS
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/{_contained"
> RESULT: SUCCESS
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/}_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/@_contained"
> RESULT: SUCCESS
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/$_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/*_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/\_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/&_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/#_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/%_contained"
> RESULT: FAIL
> ===================
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/+_contained"
> RESULT: SUCCESS
>
>
> Test Case 2: TMPDIR containing ^
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/^_contained"
> Command:
>      bitbake core-image-minimal -cpopulate_sdk
> Result:
>      Fail
> Formatted Error Message:
>      ERROR: Task 5 (virtual:nativesdk:/home/chenqi/poky/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc_2.18.bb, do_populate_sysroot) failed with exit code '1'
>      | checking whether the C compiler works... no
>      | configure: error: in `/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/^_contained/work/i686-nativesdk-pokysdk-linux/nativesdk-eglibc/2.18-r0/site_config_qemux86':
>      | configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>      | See `config.log' for more details
>
>
> Test Case 3: TMPDIR containing +
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/+_contained"
> Command:
>      bitbake world
> Result:
>      Fail
> Formatted Error Message:
>      ERROR: Task 9084 (virtual:native:/home/chenqi/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/tcltk/tcl_8.6.1.bb, do_install) failed with exit code '1'
>      | oe_libinstall: cd /home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/+_contained/work/i686-linux/tcl-native/8.6.1-r0/build
>      | sed: -e expression #1, char 117: unknown option to `s'
> Reason:
>      '+' is used by the sed command as a separator in tcl recipe.
>      sed -i "s+${WORKDIR}+${STAGING_INCDIR}+g" tclConfig.sh
>
>
> Test Case 4: TMPDIR containing ]
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/]_contained"
> Command:
>      bitbake world
> Result:
>      Fail
> Formatted Error Message:
>      ERROR: Task 5 (virtual:native:/home/chenqi/poky/meta/recipes-graphics/xcb/xcb-proto_1.8.bb, do_configure) failed with exit code '1'
>      | configure.ac:9: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>      |       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>      |       See the Autoconf documentation.
>      | configure.ac:12: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
>      | configure.ac:17: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_PYTHON
>      | autoreconf: /home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/]_contained/sysroots/i686-linux/usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
>      | ERROR: autoreconf execution failed.
>      | WARNING: exit code 1 from a shell command.
>
>
> Test Case 5: TMPDIR containing {
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/[_contained"
> Command:
>      bitbake world
> Result:
>      Fail
> Formatted Error Message:
>      ERROR: Task 9237 (virtual:native:/home/chenqi/poky/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/gnome-doc-utils_0.20.10.bb, do_compile) failed with exit code '1'
>      | xsltproc -nonet -o "C/db-label.xml" \
>      |      --stringparam basename "db-label" \
>      |      --stringparam xsl_file "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/{_contained/work/i686-linux/gnome-doc-utils-native/0.20.10-r0/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10/doc/xslt/../../xslt/\
> docbook/common/db-label.xsl" \
>      |      "./xsldoc-docbook.xsl" "C/db-label.xsldoc"
>      | db-chunk: No stylesheet param for documented db.chunk.chunks
>      | db-common: No named template for documented db.copyright
>      | make[2]: *** [C/db-chunk.xml] Error 10
>
>
> Test Case 6: TMPDIR containing @
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/@_contained"
> Command:
>      bitbake qt-mobility-x11
> Result:
>      Fail
> Formatted Error Message:
>      ERROR: Task 2 (/home/chenqi/poky/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt-mobility-x11_1.2.0.bb, do_install) failed with exit code '1'
>      | DEBUG: Executing shell function do_install
>      | sed: -e expression #1, char 75: unknown option to `s'
>
>
> Test Case 7: TMPDIR containing ~
> TMPDIR = "/home/chenqi/wrlinux-build/directory-names/dir-with-special-chars/[_contained"
> Command:
>      bitbake world
> Result:
>     Success
>
> ****************************************************************************************
>
> The following changes since commit ea92671d9823e3667d6ced7ac2af20f991da404d:
>
>    bitbake: cooker: replace "w" file opening mode with "a" mode (2013-11-12 17:01:37 +0000)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>    git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib ChenQi/TMPDIR
>    http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=ChenQi/TMPDIR
>
> Chen Qi (1):
>    sanity.bbclass: check for validity of TMPDIR
>
>   meta/classes/sanity.bbclass |    7 +++++++
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>

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