This test was taking about 5 minutes to run, specifically
the requested scan test. One slight optimization is to
remove the duplicate hidden network, since there is no
need for two. In addition the requested scan test was
changed so it does not periodic scan and only issues a dbus
scan.
This simulates the conditions that trigger a free-after-use which was
fixed with:
2c355db7 ("scan: remove periodic scans from queue on abort")
This behavior can be reproduced reliably using this test with the above
patch reverted.
testScan was creating 10 separate hidden networks which
sometimes bogged down hostapd to the point that it would
not start up in time before test-runner's timeouts fired.
This appeared to be due to hostapd needing to create 10
separate interfaces which would sometimes fail with -ENFILE.
The test itself only needed two separate networks, so instead
the additional 8 can be completely removed.
After the test-runner re-write many tests were left with
stale options that are no longer used at all. These were
periodically getting removed as changes were made to
individual tests, but its apparent now that a tree wide
removal was needed.
Slower systems may not be able to make some timeouts that tests
mandated. All timeouts were increased significantly to allow tests
to pass on slow systems.
Don't use del wd to dereference the IWD instance at the end of the function
where it has been defined in the first place as at this point wd is about
to have its reference count decreased anyway (the variable's scope is
ending) so it's pointless (but didn't hurt).
Relying on the __del__ destructor to kill the IWD process in those tests
it has been started in the constructor is a bit of a hack in the first
place, because the destructor is called on garbage collection and even
through CPython does this on the refcount reaching 0, this is not
documented and there's no guideline on when it should happen or if it
should happen at all. So it could be argued that we should keep the del
wd statemenets to be able to easily replace all of them with a call to a
new method. But most of them are not placed so that they're guaranteed
to happen on test success or failure. It would probably be easier to do
this and other housekeeping in a base class and make the tests its
subclasses. Also some of these tests don't really need to launch iwd
themselves, since IWD now tracks changes in the known network files I
think IWD only really needs to be killed between tests when main.conf
changes.
At some point a stray ';' got added into an autotest in a section
of code that is heavily copy pasted. So in turn nearly all the autotests
have this stray ';' after list_devices (and a few in other places).
James Prestwood