test/py: Wait for guestmount worker to exit after running guestunmount
Some filesystem tests are failing when their image is prepared with
guestmount, but succeeding if loop mounts are used instead. The reason
seems to be a race condition the guestmount(1) manual page explains:
When guestunmount(1)/fusermount(1) exits, guestmount may still be
running and cleaning up the mountpoint. The disk image will not be
fully finalized.
This means that scripts like the following have a nasty race condition:
guestmount -a disk.img -i /mnt
# copy things into /mnt
guestunmount /mnt
# immediately try to use 'disk.img' ** UNSAFE **
The solution is to use the --pid-file option to write the guestmount
PID to a file, then after guestunmount spin waiting for this PID to
exit.
The Python standard library has an os.waitpid() function for waiting a
child to terminate, but it cannot wait on non-child processes. Implement
a utility function that can do this by polling the process repeatedly
for a given duration, optionally killing the process if it won't
terminate on its own. Apply the suggested solution with this utility
function, which makes the failing tests succeed again.
Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>