fix failures found by randomconfig builds

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/testsuite/tar.tests b/testsuite/tar.tests
index 93ba5f004..9ea89f15f 100755
--- a/testsuite/tar.tests
+++ b/testsuite/tar.tests
@@ -25,10 +25,12 @@ tar: short read
 SKIP=
 
 optional FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ
+# In NOMMU case, "invalid magic" message comes from gunzip child process.
+# Otherwise, it comes from tar.
+# Need to fix output up to avoid false positive.
 testing "Empty file is not a tarball.tar.gz" '\
-tar xvzf - 2>&1; echo $?
+{ tar xvzf - 2>&1; echo $?; } | grep -Fv "invalid magic"
 ' "\
-tar: invalid magic
 tar: short read
 1
 " \