failing-with-test.diff

$ git diff
diff --git a/swift/container/server.py b/swift/container/server.py
index d6f0ea9b6..98d80f3ee 100644
--- a/swift/container/server.py
+++ b/swift/container/server.py
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ class ContainerController(BaseStorageServer):
                 return HTTPBadRequest('Invalid body: %r' % err)
             created = self._maybe_autocreate(
                 broker, req_timestamp, account, requested_policy_index,
-                put_shard=True)
+                put_shard=False)
             self._update_metadata(req, broker, req_timestamp, 'PUT')
             if shard_ranges:
                 # TODO: consider writing the shard ranges into the pending
diff --git a/test/unit/container/test_server.py b/test/unit/container/test_server.py
index 23aa1687d..137ca232d 100644
--- a/test/unit/container/test_server.py
+++ b/test/unit/container/test_server.py
@@ -4672,6 +4672,14 @@ class TestContainerController(unittest.TestCase):
         resp = req.get_response(self.controller)
         self.assertEqual(resp.status_int, 404)
 
+        req = Request.blank('/sda1/p/.shards_a/c',
+                            environ={'REQUEST_METHOD': 'PUT'},
+                            headers=dict(headers), body='[]')
+        req.headers['x-backend-record-type'] = 'shard'
+        req.headers['X-Backend-Storage-Policy-Index'] = '0'
+        resp = req.get_response(self.controller)
+        self.assertEqual(resp.status_int, 201)
+
         req = Request.blank('/sda1/p/a/.c/o',
                             environ={'REQUEST_METHOD': 'PUT'},
                             headers=dict(headers))

failure.out

vagrant@saio:~$ nosetests swift/test/unit/container/test_server.py:TestContainerController
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FAIL: test_PUT_shard_range_autocreates_shard_container (test.unit.container.test_server.TestContainerController)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/vagrant/swift/test/unit/container/test_server.py", line 2396, in test_PUT_shard_range_autocreates_shard_container
    self.assertEqual(400, resp.status_int)
AssertionError: 400 != 404
-------------------- >> begin captured stdout << ---------------------
test INFO: - - - [02/Jun/2020:12:58:36 +0000] "PUT /sda1/p/a/c" 404 - "-" "-" "-" 0.0003 "-" 6740 -
test INFO: - - - [02/Jun/2020:12:58:36 +0000] "PUT /sda1/p/.shards_a/shard_c" 404 - "-" "-" "-" 0.0002 "-" 6740 -

--------------------- >> end captured stdout << ----------------------

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FAIL: test_put_auto_create (test.unit.container.test_server.TestContainerController)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/vagrant/swift/test/unit/container/test_server.py", line 4681, in test_put_auto_create
    self.assertEqual(resp.status_int, 201)
AssertionError: 404 != 201
-------------------- >> begin captured stdout << ---------------------
test INFO: - - - [02/Jun/2020:12:58:37 +0000] "PUT /sda1/p/a/c/o" 404 - "-" "-" "-" 0.0003 "-" 6740 -
test INFO: - - - [02/Jun/2020:12:58:37 +0000] "PUT /sda1/p/.a/c/o" 201 - "-" "-" "-" 0.0041 "-" 6740 -
test INFO: - - - [02/Jun/2020:12:58:37 +0000] "PUT /sda1/p/.shards_a/c/o" 404 - "-" "-" "-" 0.0002 "-" 6740 -
test INFO: - - - [02/Jun/2020:12:58:37 +0000] "PUT /sda1/p/.shards_a/c" 404 - "-" "-" "-" 0.0002 "-" 6740 0

--------------------- >> end captured stdout << ----------------------

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Ran 127 tests in 2.627s

FAILED (failures=2)