utils_testsuite fails with test-mount.py in ubuntu_qrt_apparmor on N-oem-6.8

[LEE KUAN-YING]

The test complains about the following issues on linux-oem-6.8 6.8.0-1007.7.

Both ApparmorTestsuites.test_utils_testsuite and ApparmorTestsuites.test_utils_testsuite3 failed with:

 === test-mount.py ===
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/tmp/testlibq6i9amf6/source/noble/apparmor-4.0.1/utils/test/test-mount.py", line 28, in
     class MountTestParse(AATest):
   File "/tmp/testlibq6i9amf6/source/noble/apparmor-4.0.1/utils/test/test-mount.py", line 32, in MountTestParse
     ('mount -> **,', MountRule('mount', MountRule.ALL, MountRule.ALL, MountRule.ALL, '**', False, False, False, '' )),
                                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apparmor/rule/mount.py", line 145, in __init__
     self.dest, self.all_dest = self._aare_or_all(dest, 'dest', is_path=True, log_event=log_event)
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apparmor/rule/__init__.py", line 74, in _aare_or_all
     return AARE(rulepart, is_path=is_path, log_event=log_event), False
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apparmor/aare.py", line 34, in __init__
     raise AppArmorException("Path doesn't start with / or variable: %s" % regex)
 apparmor.common.AppArmorException: "Path doesn't start with / or variable: **"
 make[1]: *** [Makefile:85: check] Error 1
 make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/testlibq6i9amf6/source/noble/apparmor-4.0.1/utils/test'
 make: *** [Makefile:103: check] Error 2

 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Ran 1 test in 33.812s

 FAILED (failures=1)

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

Attachment is the full test log.

[Georgia Garcia (georgiag)]

This looks a bit weird. It looks like the test downloaded a different apparmor source (from -proposed) than what was installed in the machine. Since the version from -proposed landed in -updates (still in phasing, though), can this be retested with apparmor 4.0.1-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 installed?

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

Hello Garcia,
Thanks for the suggestion, I have this retested with 4.0.1-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 and it has passed.

We have this discrepancy because -proposed was enabled when testing noble. I will ask around to see if this is still needed.