[PATCH 0/6] Test and linter fixups

[PATCH 0/6] Test and linter fixups

[David Gibson]

Before starting to convert testcases to use tunbridge, I wanted to add
linting for the Python test scripts.  While doing that I discovered a
new crop of cppcheck and clang-tidy false positives, and a Makefile
bug.

Here's a batch of fixes.

I didn't manage to get through the whole testsuite with this.  I keep
getting hangs on rampstream_out, which I *think* are unrelated.

David Gibson (6):
  test: Convince make not to accidentally delete exetool
  test: Add linting of Python test scripts
  clang-tidy: Suppress redundant expression warning
  cppcheck: Suppress the suppression of a suppression
  cppcheck: Suppress a buggy cppcheck warning
  cppcheck: Suppress variable scope warnings in dhcpv6()

 dhcpv6.c                      |  8 ++++++++
 linux_dep.h                   |  2 +-
 tcp.c                         |  5 +++++
 test/Makefile                 | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 test/build/build.py           |  5 +++--
 test/build/static_checkers.sh |  6 +++++-
 vhost_user.c                  |  1 +
 7 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

-- 
2.51.0

[PATCH 1/6] test: Convince make not to accidentally delete exetool

[David Gibson]

Our exeter tests make use of exetool, a tool that's part of the exeter
tree.  Both Yumei and I have seen cases where exetool is missing, despite
it being from an external tree we shouldn't be touching.

I haven't pinned down the exact circumstances in which this happens, but I
think this is occurring because the way the Makefile refers to it can make
it look like an intermediate target that make may delete when interrupted.
Mark it as .PRECIOUS to prevent that.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
 test/Makefile | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/test/Makefile b/test/Makefile
index 49388276..69987d0b 100644
--- a/test/Makefile
+++ b/test/Makefile
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ pull-%: %
 exeter:
 	git clone https://gitlab.com/dgibson/exeter.git
 
+# Don't delete this, make, even though it looks like an intermediate target
+.PRECIOUS: exeter/exetool/exetool
 exeter/exetool/exetool: pull-exeter
 
 mbuto:
-- 
2.51.0

[PATCH 2/6] test: Add linting of Python test scripts

[David Gibson]

We currently have one test moved to the new exeter based framwork written
in Python.  We plan to add many more, so add linting (flake8) and type
checking (mypy) of those scripts.  This can be invoked manually with
"make flake8" or "make mypy" in test/, and is also added to the static
checkers test set.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
 test/Makefile                 | 14 +++++++++++++-
 test/build/build.py           |  5 +++--
 test/build/static_checkers.sh |  6 +++++-
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/test/Makefile b/test/Makefile
index 69987d0b..2637e0ed 100644
--- a/test/Makefile
+++ b/test/Makefile
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 BATS = bats -j $(shell nproc)
 EXETOOL = exeter/exetool/exetool
 WGET = wget -c
+FLAKE8 = flake8
+MYPY = mypy --strict
 
 DEBIAN_IMGS = debian-8.11.0-openstack-amd64.qcow2 \
 	debian-10-nocloud-amd64.qcow2 \
@@ -65,11 +67,15 @@ LOCAL_ASSETS = mbuto.img mbuto.mem.img podman/bin/podman QEMU_EFI.fd \
 ASSETS = $(DOWNLOAD_ASSETS) $(LOCAL_ASSETS)
 
 EXETER_PYPATH = exeter/py3
+EXETER_PYTHON = build/build.py
 EXETER_BATS = smoke/smoke.sh.bats \
-	build/build.py.bats build/static_checkers.sh.bats
+	$(EXETER_PYTHON:%=%.bats) build/static_checkers.sh.bats
 BATS_FILES = $(EXETER_BATS) \
 	podman/test/system/505-networking-pasta.bats
 
+# Python test code (for linters)
+PYPKGS = $(EXETER_PYTHON)
+
 CFLAGS = -Wall -Werror -Wextra -pedantic -std=c99
 
 assets: $(ASSETS)
@@ -130,6 +136,12 @@ medium.bin:
 big.bin:
 	dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=10 of=$@
 
+flake8: pull-exeter
+	PYTHONPATH=$(EXETER_PYPATH) $(FLAKE8) $(PYPKGS)
+
+mypy: pull-exeter
+	PYTHONPATH=$(EXETER_PYPATH) $(MYPY) $(PYPKGS)
+
 $(EXETER_BATS): %.bats: % $(EXETOOL)
 	PYTHONPATH=$(EXETER_PYPATH) $(EXETOOL) bats -- $< > $@
 
diff --git a/test/build/build.py b/test/build/build.py
index e49287c9..e3de8305 100755
--- a/test/build/build.py
+++ b/test/build/build.py
@@ -18,11 +18,12 @@ import os
 from pathlib import Path
 import subprocess
 import tempfile
-from typing import Iterable, Iterator
+from typing import Iterator
 
 import exeter
 
-def sh(cmd):
+
+def sh(cmd: str) -> None:
     """Run given command in a shell"""
     subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True)
 
diff --git a/test/build/static_checkers.sh b/test/build/static_checkers.sh
index 42806e79..228b99ae 100755
--- a/test/build/static_checkers.sh
+++ b/test/build/static_checkers.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ exeter_set_description cppcheck "passt sources pass cppcheck"
 exeter_register clang_tidy make -C .. clang-tidy
 exeter_set_description clang_tidy "passt sources pass clang-tidy"
 
-exeter_main "$@"
+exeter_register flake8 make flake8
+exeter_set_description flake8 "passt tests in Python pass flake8"
 
+exeter_register mypy make mypy
+exeter_set_description mypy "passt tests in Python pass mypy --strict"
 
+exeter_main "$@"
-- 
2.51.0

[PATCH 3/6] clang-tidy: Suppress redundant expression warning

[David Gibson]

clang-tidy 20.1.8 doesn't like (VHOST_USER_MAX_VQS / 2), because it expands
to (2 / 2).  But in the context of the #define, this makes logical sense,
so suppress the warning.

I'm not sure why it isn't firing on the debug() line just below.  Possibly
it only complains once per expression per function, so we only have to
suppress it once?

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
 vhost_user.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/vhost_user.c b/vhost_user.c
index fa343a86..223332d5 100644
--- a/vhost_user.c
+++ b/vhost_user.c
@@ -939,6 +939,7 @@ static bool vu_get_queue_num_exec(struct vu_dev *vdev,
 {
 	(void)vdev;
 
+	/* NOLINTNEXTLINE(misc-redundant-expression) */
 	vmsg_set_reply_u64(vmsg, VHOST_USER_MAX_VQS / 2);
 
 	debug("VHOST_USER_MAX_VQS  %u", VHOST_USER_MAX_VQS / 2);
-- 
2.51.0

[PATCH 4/6] cppcheck: Suppress the suppression of a suppression

[David Gibson]

Apparently cppcheck 2.18.3 no longer trips the funcArgNamesDifferent
warning on our (re-)definition of close_range().  So instead we get an
unmatchedSuppression warning.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
 linux_dep.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/linux_dep.h b/linux_dep.h
index 1d9e1669..89e590c8 100644
--- a/linux_dep.h
+++ b/linux_dep.h
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ struct tcp_info_linux {
 #endif
 
 __attribute__ ((weak))
-/* cppcheck-suppress funcArgNamesDifferent */
+/* cppcheck-suppress [funcArgNamesDifferent,unmatchedSuppression] */
 int close_range(unsigned int first, unsigned int last, int flags) {
 	return syscall(SYS_close_range, first, last, flags);
 }
-- 
2.51.0

[PATCH 5/6] cppcheck: Suppress a buggy cppcheck warning

[David Gibson]

Another cppcheck package in Fedora, another bogus false positive.  This
one seems to not realise that a variable has been initialised by
getsockopt() under a complicated set of circumstances.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
 tcp.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tcp.c b/tcp.c
index 48b1ef29..7da41797 100644
--- a/tcp.c
+++ b/tcp.c
@@ -1030,6 +1030,11 @@ int tcp_update_seqack_wnd(const struct ctx *c, struct tcp_tap_conn *conn,
 					return 0;
 			}
 
+			/* This trips a cppcheck bug in some versions, including
+			 * cppcheck 2.18.3.
+			 * https://sourceforge.net/p/cppcheck/discussion/general/thread/fecde59085/
+			 */
+			/* cppcheck-suppress [uninitvar,unmatchedSuppression] */
 			conn->seq_ack_to_tap = tinfo->tcpi_bytes_acked +
 				conn->seq_init_from_tap;
 
-- 
2.51.0

[PATCH 6/6] cppcheck: Suppress variable scope warnings in dhcpv6()

[David Gibson]

At least some cppcheck versions (2.18.3 for me) complain that the _storage
variables in dhcpv6() could be reduced in scope.  That's not actually the
case, because although we don't reference the variables, we may touch
their memory via pointers after the blocks in question.  There's no
reasonable way for cppcheck to determine that, though, so suppress its
warnings.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
 dhcpv6.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dhcpv6.c b/dhcpv6.c
index c1a27aba..e4df0db5 100644
--- a/dhcpv6.c
+++ b/dhcpv6.c
@@ -550,10 +550,18 @@ int dhcpv6(struct ctx *c, struct iov_tail *data,
 {
 	const struct opt_server_id *server_id = NULL;
 	const struct opt_hdr *client_id = NULL;
+	/* The _storage variables can't be local to the blocks they're used in,
+	 * because IOV_*_HEADER() may return pointers to them which are
+	 * dereferenced afterwards. Since we don't have Rust-like lifetime
+	 * tracking, cppcheck can't reasonably determine that, so we must
+	 * suppress its warnings. */
+	/* cppcheck-suppress [variableScope,unmatchedSuppression] */
 	struct opt_server_id server_id_storage;
 	struct iov_tail opt, client_id_base;
 	const struct opt_ia_na *ia = NULL;
+	/* cppcheck-suppress [variableScope,unmatchedSuppression] */
 	struct opt_hdr client_id_storage;
+	/* cppcheck-suppress [variableScope,unmatchedSuppression] */
 	struct opt_ia_na ia_storage;
 	const struct in6_addr *src;
 	struct msg_hdr mh_storage;
-- 
2.51.0

Re: [PATCH 2/6] test: Add linting of Python test scripts

[Stefano Brivio]

On Wed,  1 Oct 2025 19:51:58 +1000
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> We currently have one test moved to the new exeter based framwork written
> in Python.  We plan to add many more, so add linting (flake8) and type
> checking (mypy) of those scripts.  This can be invoked manually with
> "make flake8" or "make mypy" in test/, and is also added to the static
> checkers test set.

I never used a Python linter, so I'm not sure if it's as bad as Go or
Rust linters taking the whole poetry away, as it happened for instance
in my most recent experience with 'cargo fmt':

  https://github.com/AsahiLinux/muvm/compare/68094c02c19b6f5d5e3def6d29379c1244c9a5e4..9af11c334a1ce37f533c056d982f8608c8d80d27#diff-e1a95ce380b9a8a317f97cccce1cbfd3dccd343dc62169ed1340208ab304fab9L106

  https://github.com/AsahiLinux/muvm/pull/111#discussion_r1863551727
  (you need to click around before you get to it, no idea how to share
  a proper link that opens that comment right away)

Maybe with Python it's not as annoying? I don't have a strong
preference against this, I just wanted to raise a possible downside.

In general, my thought is that coding style serves a purpose, and it's
used by humans for humans, so it's flexible, with exceptions, and
reasons behind it and behind those exceptions.

If we just pass everything through a linter, well, except for the
purposes of revision control, we don't really need a coding style?

> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> ---
>  test/Makefile                 | 14 +++++++++++++-
>  test/build/build.py           |  5 +++--
>  test/build/static_checkers.sh |  6 +++++-
>  3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/test/Makefile b/test/Makefile
> index 69987d0b..2637e0ed 100644
> --- a/test/Makefile
> +++ b/test/Makefile
> @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
>  BATS = bats -j $(shell nproc)
>  EXETOOL = exeter/exetool/exetool
>  WGET = wget -c
> +FLAKE8 = flake8
> +MYPY = mypy --strict
>  
>  DEBIAN_IMGS = debian-8.11.0-openstack-amd64.qcow2 \
>  	debian-10-nocloud-amd64.qcow2 \
> @@ -65,11 +67,15 @@ LOCAL_ASSETS = mbuto.img mbuto.mem.img podman/bin/podman QEMU_EFI.fd \
>  ASSETS = $(DOWNLOAD_ASSETS) $(LOCAL_ASSETS)
>  
>  EXETER_PYPATH = exeter/py3
> +EXETER_PYTHON = build/build.py
>  EXETER_BATS = smoke/smoke.sh.bats \
> -	build/build.py.bats build/static_checkers.sh.bats
> +	$(EXETER_PYTHON:%=%.bats) build/static_checkers.sh.bats
>  BATS_FILES = $(EXETER_BATS) \
>  	podman/test/system/505-networking-pasta.bats
>  
> +# Python test code (for linters)
> +PYPKGS = $(EXETER_PYTHON)
> +
>  CFLAGS = -Wall -Werror -Wextra -pedantic -std=c99
>  
>  assets: $(ASSETS)
> @@ -130,6 +136,12 @@ medium.bin:
>  big.bin:
>  	dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=10 of=$@
>  
> +flake8: pull-exeter
> +	PYTHONPATH=$(EXETER_PYPATH) $(FLAKE8) $(PYPKGS)
> +
> +mypy: pull-exeter
> +	PYTHONPATH=$(EXETER_PYPATH) $(MYPY) $(PYPKGS)
> +
>  $(EXETER_BATS): %.bats: % $(EXETOOL)
>  	PYTHONPATH=$(EXETER_PYPATH) $(EXETOOL) bats -- $< > $@
>  
> diff --git a/test/build/build.py b/test/build/build.py
> index e49287c9..e3de8305 100755
> --- a/test/build/build.py
> +++ b/test/build/build.py
> @@ -18,11 +18,12 @@ import os
>  from pathlib import Path
>  import subprocess
>  import tempfile
> -from typing import Iterable, Iterator
> +from typing import Iterator
>  
>  import exeter
>  
> -def sh(cmd):
> +
> +def sh(cmd: str) -> None:
>      """Run given command in a shell"""
>      subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True)
>  
> diff --git a/test/build/static_checkers.sh b/test/build/static_checkers.sh
> index 42806e79..228b99ae 100755
> --- a/test/build/static_checkers.sh
> +++ b/test/build/static_checkers.sh
> @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ exeter_set_description cppcheck "passt sources pass cppcheck"
>  exeter_register clang_tidy make -C .. clang-tidy
>  exeter_set_description clang_tidy "passt sources pass clang-tidy"
>  
> -exeter_main "$@"
> +exeter_register flake8 make flake8
> +exeter_set_description flake8 "passt tests in Python pass flake8"
>  
> +exeter_register mypy make mypy
> +exeter_set_description mypy "passt tests in Python pass mypy --strict"
>  
> +exeter_main "$@"

-- 
Stefano

Re: [PATCH 2/6] test: Add linting of Python test scripts

[Paul Holzinger]

On 01/10/2025 12:23, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Wed,  1 Oct 2025 19:51:58 +1000
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>
>> We currently have one test moved to the new exeter based framwork written
>> in Python.  We plan to add many more, so add linting (flake8) and type
>> checking (mypy) of those scripts.  This can be invoked manually with
>> "make flake8" or "make mypy" in test/, and is also added to the static
>> checkers test set.
> I never used a Python linter, so I'm not sure if it's as bad as Go or
> Rust linters taking the whole poetry away, as it happened for instance
> in my most recent experience with 'cargo fmt':
>
>    https://github.com/AsahiLinux/muvm/compare/68094c02c19b6f5d5e3def6d29379c1244c9a5e4..9af11c334a1ce37f533c056d982f8608c8d80d27#diff-e1a95ce380b9a8a317f97cccce1cbfd3dccd343dc62169ed1340208ab304fab9L106
>
>    https://github.com/AsahiLinux/muvm/pull/111#discussion_r1863551727
>    (you need to click around before you get to it, no idea how to share
>    a proper link that opens that comment right away)
Not really on topic for this series but since you brought up rust there 
is actually a "#[rustfmt::skip]" attribute that can be used to skip the 
formatting selectively in case you need it in the future.

-- 
Paul Holzinger

Re: [PATCH 2/6] test: Add linting of Python test scripts

[Stefano Brivio]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2025 12:40:09 +0200
Paul Holzinger <pholzing@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 01/10/2025 12:23, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > On Wed,  1 Oct 2025 19:51:58 +1000
> > David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> >  
> >> We currently have one test moved to the new exeter based framwork written
> >> in Python.  We plan to add many more, so add linting (flake8) and type
> >> checking (mypy) of those scripts.  This can be invoked manually with
> >> "make flake8" or "make mypy" in test/, and is also added to the static
> >> checkers test set.  
> > I never used a Python linter, so I'm not sure if it's as bad as Go or
> > Rust linters taking the whole poetry away, as it happened for instance
> > in my most recent experience with 'cargo fmt':
> >
> >    https://github.com/AsahiLinux/muvm/compare/68094c02c19b6f5d5e3def6d29379c1244c9a5e4..9af11c334a1ce37f533c056d982f8608c8d80d27#diff-e1a95ce380b9a8a317f97cccce1cbfd3dccd343dc62169ed1340208ab304fab9L106
> >
> >    https://github.com/AsahiLinux/muvm/pull/111#discussion_r1863551727
> >    (you need to click around before you get to it, no idea how to share
> >    a proper link that opens that comment right away)
>
> Not really on topic for this series but since you brought up rust there 
> is actually a "#[rustfmt::skip]" attribute that can be used to skip the 
> formatting selectively in case you need it in the future.

Ah, thanks, I didn't know about it. Now that you mention that, I just
found out that, with flake8, it looks like one can ignore the entire
file with "# flake8: noqa" on a line of its own:

  https://stackoverflow.com/a/64431741

but still, my doubts remain.

-- 
Stefano

Re: [PATCH 2/6] test: Add linting of Python test scripts

[David Gibson]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 5250 bytes --]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 12:23:51PM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Wed,  1 Oct 2025 19:51:58 +1000
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> 
> > We currently have one test moved to the new exeter based framwork written
> > in Python.  We plan to add many more, so add linting (flake8) and type
> > checking (mypy) of those scripts.  This can be invoked manually with
> > "make flake8" or "make mypy" in test/, and is also added to the static
> > checkers test set.
> 
> I never used a Python linter, so I'm not sure if it's as bad as Go or
> Rust linters taking the whole poetry away, as it happened for instance
> in my most recent experience with 'cargo fmt':
> 
>   https://github.com/AsahiLinux/muvm/compare/68094c02c19b6f5d5e3def6d29379c1244c9a5e4..9af11c334a1ce37f533c056d982f8608c8d80d27#diff-e1a95ce380b9a8a317f97cccce1cbfd3dccd343dc62169ed1340208ab304fab9L106
> 
>   https://github.com/AsahiLinux/muvm/pull/111#discussion_r1863551727
>   (you need to click around before you get to it, no idea how to share
>   a proper link that opens that comment right away)
> 
> Maybe with Python it's not as annoying? I don't have a strong
> preference against this, I just wanted to raise a possible downside.

I've been using flake8 for a while now.  It _is_ pedantic about
formatting, but so far at least, I haven't felt like it conflicted
with anything I wanted to express.  Finding missing or redundant
imports and the like is certainly useful, since there's no compiler to
do so.  There is certainly some overlap with what mypy does.

> In general, my thought is that coding style serves a purpose, and it's
> used by humans for humans, so it's flexible, with exceptions, and
> reasons behind it and behind those exceptions.
> 
> If we just pass everything through a linter, well, except for the
> purposes of revision control, we don't really need a coding style?

flake8 is partly about code formatting, but not entirely.  Think of it
as sitting somewhere in between indent and cppcheck, maybe?

> 
> > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> > ---
> >  test/Makefile                 | 14 +++++++++++++-
> >  test/build/build.py           |  5 +++--
> >  test/build/static_checkers.sh |  6 +++++-
> >  3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/test/Makefile b/test/Makefile
> > index 69987d0b..2637e0ed 100644
> > --- a/test/Makefile
> > +++ b/test/Makefile
> > @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
> >  BATS = bats -j $(shell nproc)
> >  EXETOOL = exeter/exetool/exetool
> >  WGET = wget -c
> > +FLAKE8 = flake8
> > +MYPY = mypy --strict
> >  
> >  DEBIAN_IMGS = debian-8.11.0-openstack-amd64.qcow2 \
> >  	debian-10-nocloud-amd64.qcow2 \
> > @@ -65,11 +67,15 @@ LOCAL_ASSETS = mbuto.img mbuto.mem.img podman/bin/podman QEMU_EFI.fd \
> >  ASSETS = $(DOWNLOAD_ASSETS) $(LOCAL_ASSETS)
> >  
> >  EXETER_PYPATH = exeter/py3
> > +EXETER_PYTHON = build/build.py
> >  EXETER_BATS = smoke/smoke.sh.bats \
> > -	build/build.py.bats build/static_checkers.sh.bats
> > +	$(EXETER_PYTHON:%=%.bats) build/static_checkers.sh.bats
> >  BATS_FILES = $(EXETER_BATS) \
> >  	podman/test/system/505-networking-pasta.bats
> >  
> > +# Python test code (for linters)
> > +PYPKGS = $(EXETER_PYTHON)
> > +
> >  CFLAGS = -Wall -Werror -Wextra -pedantic -std=c99
> >  
> >  assets: $(ASSETS)
> > @@ -130,6 +136,12 @@ medium.bin:
> >  big.bin:
> >  	dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=10 of=$@
> >  
> > +flake8: pull-exeter
> > +	PYTHONPATH=$(EXETER_PYPATH) $(FLAKE8) $(PYPKGS)
> > +
> > +mypy: pull-exeter
> > +	PYTHONPATH=$(EXETER_PYPATH) $(MYPY) $(PYPKGS)
> > +
> >  $(EXETER_BATS): %.bats: % $(EXETOOL)
> >  	PYTHONPATH=$(EXETER_PYPATH) $(EXETOOL) bats -- $< > $@
> >  
> > diff --git a/test/build/build.py b/test/build/build.py
> > index e49287c9..e3de8305 100755
> > --- a/test/build/build.py
> > +++ b/test/build/build.py
> > @@ -18,11 +18,12 @@ import os
> >  from pathlib import Path
> >  import subprocess
> >  import tempfile
> > -from typing import Iterable, Iterator
> > +from typing import Iterator
> >  
> >  import exeter
> >  
> > -def sh(cmd):
> > +
> > +def sh(cmd: str) -> None:
> >      """Run given command in a shell"""
> >      subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True)
> >  
> > diff --git a/test/build/static_checkers.sh b/test/build/static_checkers.sh
> > index 42806e79..228b99ae 100755
> > --- a/test/build/static_checkers.sh
> > +++ b/test/build/static_checkers.sh
> > @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ exeter_set_description cppcheck "passt sources pass cppcheck"
> >  exeter_register clang_tidy make -C .. clang-tidy
> >  exeter_set_description clang_tidy "passt sources pass clang-tidy"
> >  
> > -exeter_main "$@"
> > +exeter_register flake8 make flake8
> > +exeter_set_description flake8 "passt tests in Python pass flake8"
> >  
> > +exeter_register mypy make mypy
> > +exeter_set_description mypy "passt tests in Python pass mypy --strict"
> >  
> > +exeter_main "$@"
> 
> -- 
> Stefano
> 

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Re: [PATCH 2/6] test: Add linting of Python test scripts

[David Gibson]

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On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 12:48:36PM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2025 12:40:09 +0200
> Paul Holzinger <pholzing@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 01/10/2025 12:23, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > > On Wed,  1 Oct 2025 19:51:58 +1000
> > > David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> > >  
> > >> We currently have one test moved to the new exeter based framwork written
> > >> in Python.  We plan to add many more, so add linting (flake8) and type
> > >> checking (mypy) of those scripts.  This can be invoked manually with
> > >> "make flake8" or "make mypy" in test/, and is also added to the static
> > >> checkers test set.  
> > > I never used a Python linter, so I'm not sure if it's as bad as Go or
> > > Rust linters taking the whole poetry away, as it happened for instance
> > > in my most recent experience with 'cargo fmt':
> > >
> > >    https://github.com/AsahiLinux/muvm/compare/68094c02c19b6f5d5e3def6d29379c1244c9a5e4..9af11c334a1ce37f533c056d982f8608c8d80d27#diff-e1a95ce380b9a8a317f97cccce1cbfd3dccd343dc62169ed1340208ab304fab9L106
> > >
> > >    https://github.com/AsahiLinux/muvm/pull/111#discussion_r1863551727
> > >    (you need to click around before you get to it, no idea how to share
> > >    a proper link that opens that comment right away)
> >
> > Not really on topic for this series but since you brought up rust there 
> > is actually a "#[rustfmt::skip]" attribute that can be used to skip the 
> > formatting selectively in case you need it in the future.
> 
> Ah, thanks, I didn't know about it. Now that you mention that, I just
> found out that, with flake8, it looks like one can ignore the entire
> file with "# flake8: noqa" on a line of its own:

Right.  More selective suppressions are also possible.  I have exactly
one in exeter, for a case where I really am doing something odd for
testing reasons.

Fwiw, I gave up on using pylint, a different linting tool, because it
whinged too much.  flake8 I've been fairly happy with.

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Re: [PATCH 1/6] test: Convince make not to accidentally delete exetool

[David Gibson]

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On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 07:51:57PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> Our exeter tests make use of exetool, a tool that's part of the exeter
> tree.  Both Yumei and I have seen cases where exetool is missing, despite
> it being from an external tree we shouldn't be touching.
> 
> I haven't pinned down the exact circumstances in which this happens, but I
> think this is occurring because the way the Makefile refers to it can make
> it look like an intermediate target that make may delete when interrupted.
> Mark it as .PRECIOUS to prevent that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

This doesn't seem to be working, I'll try a different approach.

> ---
>  test/Makefile | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/test/Makefile b/test/Makefile
> index 49388276..69987d0b 100644
> --- a/test/Makefile
> +++ b/test/Makefile
> @@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ pull-%: %
>  exeter:
>  	git clone https://gitlab.com/dgibson/exeter.git
>  
> +# Don't delete this, make, even though it looks like an intermediate target
> +.PRECIOUS: exeter/exetool/exetool
>  exeter/exetool/exetool: pull-exeter
>  
>  mbuto:
> -- 
> 2.51.0
> 

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