[release-branch.go1.17] syscall: relax output check in TestGroupCleanupUserNamespace

“If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.”
― attr. Alan J. Perlis

I argue that the same is true for hard-coded special cases.

In TestGroupCleanupUserNamespace, instead of a curated list of strings
observed in the wild we now check for a prefix, as was done for
TestGroupCleanup in CL 24670.

Updates #52088.
Fixes #52148.

Change-Id: I59c5b0c048113e306996c0f8247e09c714d2423a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/397316
Trust: Bryan Mills <[email protected]>
Run-TryBot: Bryan Mills <[email protected]>
TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 434b2a5)
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/398235
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <[email protected]>

Author: Bryan C. Mills

src/syscall/exec_linux_test.go

@@ -275,12 +275,14 @@ func TestGroupCleanup(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("Cmd failed with err %v, output: %s", err, out)
 	}
 	strOut := strings.TrimSpace(string(out))
+	t.Logf("id: %s", strOut)
+
 	expected := "uid=0(root) gid=0(root)"
 	// Just check prefix because some distros reportedly output a
 	// context parameter; see https://golang.org/issue/16224.
 	// Alpine does not output groups; see https://golang.org/issue/19938.
 	if !strings.HasPrefix(strOut, expected) {
-		t.Errorf("id command output: %q, expected prefix: %q", strOut, expected)
+		t.Errorf("expected prefix: %q", expected)
 	}
 }
 
@@ -309,23 +311,14 @@ func TestGroupCleanupUserNamespace(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("Cmd failed with err %v, output: %s", err, out)
 	}
 	strOut := strings.TrimSpace(string(out))
+	t.Logf("id: %s", strOut)
 
-	// Strings we've seen in the wild.
-	expected := []string{
-		"uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)",
-		"uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),65534(nobody)",
-		"uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),65534(nogroup)",
-		"uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),65534",
-		"uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),65534(nobody),65534(nobody),65534(nobody),65534(nobody),65534(nobody),65534(nobody),65534(nobody),65534(nobody),65534(nobody),65534(nobody)", // Alpine; see https://golang.org/issue/19938
-		"uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023",                                                                               // CentOS with SELinux context, see https://golang.org/issue/34547
-		"uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),65534(nobody) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023",                                                                 // Fedora with SElinux context, see https://golang.org/issue/46752
-	}
-	for _, e := range expected {
-		if strOut == e {
-			return
-		}
+	// As in TestGroupCleanup, just check prefix.
+	// The actual groups and contexts seem to vary from one distro to the next.
+	expected := "uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)"
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(strOut, expected) {
+		t.Errorf("expected prefix: %q", expected)
 	}
-	t.Errorf("id command output: %q, expected one of %q", strOut, expected)
 }
 
 // TestUnshareHelperProcess isn't a real test. It's used as a helper process