From 703186fc83fc977933f79245ed91a334bd793493 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vojtech Trefny <vtrefny@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 13:58:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tests: Add a separate simpler MD activation test case

MD (de)activation is currently very race-y in both RHEL 9 and 10
and then tests fails often especially when starting and stopping
the array multiple times. This introduces a new simple test case
that should cover most of the use cases without failing all the
time keeping the "full" test case, but marking it as unstable
until these issues are resolved in mdadm.
---
 tests/mdraid_test.py | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 tests/skip.yml       |  6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/mdraid_test.py b/tests/mdraid_test.py
index b7f614713..92a074303 100644
--- a/tests/mdraid_test.py
+++ b/tests/mdraid_test.py
@@ -202,6 +202,25 @@ def test_create_with_chunk_size(self):
 
 class MDTestActivateDeactivate(MDTestCase):
     @tag_test(TestTags.SLOW, TestTags.CORE)
+    def test_activate_deactivate_core(self):
+        """Verify that it is possible to activate and deactivate an MD RAID"""
+
+        succ = BlockDev.md_create("bd_test_md", "raid0",
+                                    [self.loop_devs[0], self.loop_devs[1]],
+                                    0, None, None)
+        self.assertTrue(succ)
+
+        succ = BlockDev.md_deactivate("bd_test_md")
+        self.assertTrue(succ)
+
+        succ = BlockDev.md_activate("bd_test_md",
+                                    [self.loop_devs[0], self.loop_devs[1]], None)
+        self.assertTrue(succ)
+
+        succ = BlockDev.md_deactivate("bd_test_md")
+        self.assertTrue(succ)
+
+    @tag_test(TestTags.SLOW, TestTags.CORE, TestTags.UNSTABLE)
     def test_activate_deactivate(self):
         """Verify that it is possible to activate and deactivate an MD RAID"""
 
diff --git a/tests/skip.yml b/tests/skip.yml
index d565e3113..e39262c3e 100644
--- a/tests/skip.yml
+++ b/tests/skip.yml
@@ -76,3 +76,9 @@
     - distro: "centos"
       version: ["9", "10"]
       reason: "Race condition in denominate with latest mdadm v4.4"
+
+- test: mdraid_test.MDTestActivateDeactivate
+  skip_on:
+    - distro: "centos"
+      version: "9"
+      reason: "Race condition in activate-deactivate test with latest kernel. RHEL-126233"