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Backport to 3.4.x? MDL-63260 Duplicating quiz with random question has exponential questions growth

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      1. Log in as a teacher in a course.
      2. Create a course
      3. Turn editing on.
      4. Create a quiz
      5. Edit the quiz and add a new True/false question under the course's default question category.
      6. Add a "random question" to the quiz using the course's default question category
      7. Go back to the course page
      8. Duplicate the quiz
      9. Duplicate the quiz again
      10. Duplicate the quiz yet again
      11. Check the question table on the database. (It's most likely mdl_question). You should see 9 questions on the table.
      12. Open a terminal, go to your Moodle instance's root directory and run 

        php admin/tool/task/cli/schedule_task.php --execute=\\qtype_random\\task\\remove_unused_questions

      13. Confirm that you see a message that 4 unused random questions have been cleaned up.
      14. Check the question table.
      15. Confirm that only 5 questions now remain.
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      Copied from MDL-63260 . Log in as a teacher in a course. Create a course Turn editing on. Create a quiz Edit the quiz and add a new True/false question under the course's default question category. Add a "random question" to the quiz using the course's default question category Go back to the course page Duplicate the quiz Duplicate the quiz again Duplicate the quiz yet again Check the question table on the database. (It's most likely mdl_question). You should see 9 questions on the table. Open a terminal, go to your Moodle instance's root directory and run php admin/tool/task/cli/schedule_task.php --execute=\\qtype_random\\task\\remove_unused_questions Confirm that you see a message that 4 unused random questions have been cleaned up. Check the question table. Confirm that only 5 questions now remain.
    • Affected Branches:
      MOODLE_34_STABLE
    • Fixed Branches:
      MOODLE_34_STABLE
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      Description

      MDL-45851 was a nasty regression that I caused (sorry). That went in to 3.4.5, but the fix MDL-63260 only got into in 3.5.x and later.

      Given the ability of the regression to break people's Moodle sites (see, for example, https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=382167), I think we should consider back-porting this fix. This is not a security issue (3.4.x is security-only support) but if there was a bug that let a hacker break a user's site, we would patch it. Well, this is a bug where a Moodle developer's actions can break people's Moodle sites.

      (Note, I have not tested the new code in 3.4, but basically it is a new scheduled task so it should be fine. The test script from before can be reused.)

      Thanks for considering this.

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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-63260 Duplicating quiz with random question has exponential questions growth

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