[Bug 2081163] [NEW] fix fsck.xfs run by different shells when fsck.mode=force is set

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[Impact]
When fsck.mode=force is specified in the kernel command line, fsck.xfs
is executed during the boot process. However, when the default shell is
not bash, $PS1 should be a different value, consider the following script:
cat ps1.sh
echo "$PS1"

run ps1.sh with different shells:
ash ./ps1.sh
$
bash ./ps1.sh

dash ./ps1.sh
$
ksh ./ps1.sh

zsh ./ps1.sh

On systems like Ubuntu, where dash is the default shell during the boot
process to improve startup speed. This results in FORCE being incorrectly
set to false and then xfs_repair is not invoked:
if [ -n "$PS1" -o -t 0 ]; then
         FORCE=false
fi

Other distros may encounter this issue too if the default shell is set
to anoother shell.

Check "-t 0" is enough to determine if we are in interactive mode, and
xfs_repair is invoked as expected regardless of the shell used.

[Test Case]
1. install Ubuntu Focal with two disks (one for the system, the other for test xfs partition)
2. create partition and xfs file system on the second drive (in my case it is /dev/vdb (the disk), /dev/vdb1 (the xfs partition))
3. create mount point dir (ie, /data) and add appropriate line to the /etc/fstab, ie:
/dev/vdb1 /data xfs defaults 0 2
4. sudo mount --all to test the above, next: sudo umount /data
5. break the xfs fs on /dev/vdb1:
sudo xfs_db -x -c blockget -c "blocktrash -s 512109 -n 1000" /dev/vdb1
6. verify it's broken:
sudo mount --all
7. add the "fsck.mode=force" to the kernel boot option in grub (/etc/default/grub):
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="console=tty1 console=ttyS0 fsck.mode=force"
8. sudo update-grub
9. reboot the system and make sure xfs is repaired

[Where things could go wrong]
The patche removes $PS1 check, the "-t 0" is already enough to determine if it's in interactive mode, no need to check $PS1, this won't cause other issues.

This has been merged into upstream:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfsprogs-dev.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=19dde7fac0f38af2990e367ef4dd8ec512920c12

[ Original Bug Report ]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfsprogs/+bug/2071474

** Affects: xfsprogs (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: gerald.yang (gerald-yang-tw)
         Status: In Progress

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fix fsck.xfs run by different shells when fsck.mode=force is set
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2081163
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