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More QA Farm fixups and pmOptions changes for libpcp - #2717

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Package list and associated script changes.
Refactoring in libpcp to replace direct reference to environ with getenv() calls to improve portability.

…e for OpenIndiana

Ordering of candidates packages to pick the latest is secret mumbo jumbo
known only to pkg(1).
Resolver differences (not understood) on the new bozo have mean that that
an unknown hostname like no-such-host (without any '.'s) returns EAGAIN
by some short-circuit logic and never gets to the local bind which would
return the EHOSTUNREACH that some QA tests were expecting.

Changing to no-such-host.no.such.domain reinstates the original behaviour.
"ORIGIN_TIME" (wrong) -> "PCP_ORIGIN_TIME" (correct)
…isation

- resolved some inconsistencies in the ways information is copied
  (or not) when options are used to populate fields in the pmOptions
  structure
- plugged memory leaks and double free()s introduced in refactorisation
- improve coverage in qa/728
- add valgrind dual for qa/728 in qa/1730 (new)
- backport libpcp changes to libpcp3
- add some diagnostics
- we have some older PCP versions permanently running in the QA
  Farm now, so some tests need to be a little more careful about
  which remote host they choose to use
- bozo has more CPUs now, so some filter changes needed
1. reset guards to ensure repeated calls are OK
2. remove whacky workaround in src/pmdumptext/pmdumptext.cpp
   now that libpcp is more well-behaved
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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved option and resource cleanup, including safer handling of environment-based options and remote hosts.
    • Enhanced systemd-resolved setup to support additional configuration locations and report missing files clearly.
    • Corrected interval formatting for zero-valued times and invalid host handling.
  • Tests

    • Added Valgrind coverage for option-processing tests and improved failure reporting.
    • Expanded validation for command-line options, archives, environments, and diagnostics.
    • Updated platform-specific package checks and compatibility coverage across supported distributions.

Walkthrough

The change updates option memory ownership and cleanup, expands option-processing QA coverage, improves host and platform QA setup, and refreshes package discovery, availability, and required-package data.

Changes

Option processing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Option storage and cleanup
src/libpcp/src/getopt.c, src/libpcp3/src/getopt.c, src/pmdumptext/pmdumptext.cpp
Option host and archive strings are owned and freed by the options structure. Manual archive cleanup is removed.
Environment option processing
src/libpcp/src/getopt.c, src/libpcp3/src/getopt.c
Environment values are duplicated around setter calls. Lock handling and retained-value cleanup are updated. Debug output uses corrected option names.

Option-processing QA

Layer / File(s) Summary
Expanded getoptions coverage
qa/728, qa/1026, qa/src/api_abi.c, qa/src/getoptions.c
QA 728 adds valgrind-aware execution, filtering, and configuration and environment cases. Interval formatting checks require both time fields to be zero.
Valgrind QA variant
qa/1730, qa/group, qa/new-grind
QA 1730 runs QA 728 with valgrind. Wrapped test failures now propagate through the exit status. QA 1730 is added to related groups.

QA platform maintenance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Host and discovery test updates
qa/070, qa/272, qa/273, qa/qt/qmc_context/*
Host tests use fully qualified nonexistent names. pmcd discovery requires PCP version 4 or later.
QA logging and setup handling
qa/075, qa/1026, qa/admin/post-setup
QA output records the selected remote host. Filtered output is retained in the full log. systemd-resolved setup checks both supported configuration paths and reports when neither exists.

QA package maintenance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Package discovery and manifest handling
qa/admin/check-other, qa/admin/list-packages
Package discovery uses structured package output. Manifest parsing repeats wrapper removal. Brew update entries retain the brew tag.
Package metadata and availability
qa/admin/other-packages/*
Platform package annotations and unavailable-package records are updated.
Platform package lists
qa/admin/package-lists/*
Required package lists add, remove, and replace distribution-specific packages.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 336a5

Repeated option initialization, including the Python reset path, can steadily leak memory; ownership cleanup should be addressed before or shortly after merge.

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Inline comments:
In `@qa/1730`:
- Line 34: Update the QA 1730 flow around ./728 --valgrind to capture and
propagate that command’s exit status into the script’s status variable, so the
existing exit trap returns failures instead of the unchanged success value.

In `@qa/admin/post-setup`:
- Line 913: Update the setup failure exits after the sudo cp/configuration-file
checks to return a nonzero status explicitly, including the corresponding exit
at the second reported location, so callers stop before DNS configuration and
receive failure.

In `@src/libpcp/src/getopt.c`:
- Line 1238: Update pmFreeOptions() to set opts->archives and opts->hosts to
NULL immediately after freeing them, while preserving the existing count resets
so reused options safely pass NULL pointers to realloc().
- Around line 869-875: Update option ownership handling across
__pmStartOptions(), the PCP_ORIGIN_TIME path, and pmFreeOptions(): free owned
allocations for align_optarg, origin_optarg, guiport_optarg, start_optarg,
finish_optarg, and timezone during cleanup, and release any previously owned
setter value before __pmSetOrigin() or other setters overwrite it. Preserve
non-owned opts->optarg values without freeing them.
- Around line 1053-1056: Update the PCP_HOSTZONE debug logging in both
__pmStartOptions implementations to pass the assigned value variable to fprintf
instead of dup_value. Preserve the existing message and branch behavior while
changing both affected sites.

In `@src/libpcp3/src/getopt.c`:
- Around line 868-874: Update the PCP_HOST handling around __pmAddOptHost() to
preserve the duplicated value: remove the immediate free(dup_value), make
__pmAddOptHost() duplicate each argument before storing it in opts->hosts, and
update pmFreeOptions() to release every stored host string.
- Around line 912-1006: Update __pmStartOptions and pmFreeOptions to track
ownership of environment-derived values separately from command-line-backed
pointers, freeing owned align_optarg, origin_optarg, guiport_optarg,
start_optarg, finish_optarg, and timezone allocations during cleanup. Ensure
repeated __pmSetOrigin calls replace and release the previously owned PCP_ORIGIN
value without freeing non-owned command-line pointers.

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if ((dup_value = strdup(value)) != NULL) {
PM_UNLOCK(__pmLock_extcall);
__pmSetAlignment(opts, dup_value);
PM_LOCK(__pmLock_extcall);
if (pmDebugOptions.config)
fprintf(stderr, "pmGetOptions: PCP_ALIGN_TIME=%s set from the environment\n", dup_value);
/* opts holds reference to dup_value, so no free() */

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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rg -n '__pmSetAlignment|__pmSetOrigin|__pmSetGuiPort|__pmSetStart|__pmSetFinish|__pmSetTimezone|align_optarg|origin_optarg|guiport_optarg|start_optarg|finish_optarg|timezone|pmFreeOptions' src/libpcp/src/getopt.c src/libpcp3/src/getopt.c
sed -n '820,1070p' src/libpcp/src/getopt.c
sed -n '1190,1270p' src/libpcp/src/getopt.c

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printf '%s\n' '--- option processing and cleanup ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- public structure and initialization references ---'
rg -n -C 3 'typedef struct.*pmOptions|struct pmOptions|PM_OPTFLAG_INIT|pmFreeOptions\(|__pmStartOptions\(' src include src/libpcp src/libpcp3 --glob '*.[ch]' | head -n 500
printf '%s\n' '--- parallel cleanup implementation ---'
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Repository: performancecopilot/pcp

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Release retained environment values during option cleanup.

__pmStartOptions() stores strdup() results in align_optarg, origin_optarg, guiport_optarg, start_optarg, finish_optarg, and timezone. pmFreeOptions() frees only archive and host storage, so these values leak. PCP_ORIGIN_TIME also overwrites the PCP_ORIGIN allocation through __pmSetOrigin().

Track ownership consistently. Free owned values in pmFreeOptions(), and handle previously owned values when setters overwrite them. Do not free non-owned opts->optarg values.

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In `@src/libpcp/src/getopt.c` around lines 869 - 875, Update option ownership
handling across __pmStartOptions(), the PCP_ORIGIN_TIME path, and
pmFreeOptions(): free owned allocations for align_optarg, origin_optarg,
guiport_optarg, start_optarg, finish_optarg, and timezone during cleanup, and
release any previously owned setter value before __pmSetOrigin() or other
setters overwrite it. Preserve non-owned opts->optarg values without freeing
them.

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Comment thread src/libpcp/src/getopt.c
Comment thread src/libpcp3/src/getopt.c
Comment thread src/libpcp3/src/getopt.c
Not all of these have values from *alloc(), so free() is a bad
idea.
- bugs in reporting interval (-t) in qa/src/api_abi.c and
  qa/src/getoptions.c
- triggered some remakes
- don't call pmFreeOptions() until just befoe exit() as it is now
  more aggressive with freeing/clearing archives[], narchive, hosts[]
  and nhost
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kmcdonell merged commit fbe582d into performancecopilot:main Sep 17, 2026
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