[Workflows] add a more secure way to run tests from a PR. (#7969)

* add a more secure way to run tests from a PR.

* make pytest more secure.

* address dhruv's comments.

* improve validation check.

* Update .github/workflows/run_tests_from_a_pr.yml

Co-authored-by: Dhruv Nair <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: Dhruv Nair <[email protected]>

Author: sayakpaul

.github/workflows/run_tests_from_a_pr.yml

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+name: Check running SLOW tests from a PR (only GPU)
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      docker_image:
+        default: 'diffusers/diffusers-pytorch-cuda'
+        description: 'Name of the Docker image'
+        required: true
+      branch: 
+        description: 'PR Branch to test on'
+        required: true
+      test:
+        description: 'Tests to run (e.g.: `tests/models`).'
+        required: true
+
+env:
+  DIFFUSERS_IS_CI: yes
+  IS_GITHUB_CI: "1"
+  HF_HOME: /mnt/cache
+  OMP_NUM_THREADS: 8
+  MKL_NUM_THREADS: 8
+  PYTEST_TIMEOUT: 600
+  RUN_SLOW: yes
+
+jobs:
+  run_tests:
+    name: "Run a test on our runner from a PR"
+    runs-on: [single-gpu, nvidia-gpu, t4, ci]
+    container:
+      image: ${{ github.event.inputs.docker_image }}
+      options: --gpus 0 --privileged --ipc host -v /mnt/cache/.cache/huggingface:/mnt/cache/
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Validate test files input
+        id: validate_test_files
+        env: 
+          PY_TEST: ${{ github.event.inputs.test }}
+        run: |
+          if [[ ! "$PY_TEST" =~ ^tests/ ]]; then
+            echo "Error: The input string must start with 'tests/'."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          
+          if [[ ! "$PY_TEST" =~ ^tests/(models|pipelines) ]]; then
+            echo "Error: The input string must contain either 'models' or 'pipelines' after 'tests/'."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          
+          if [[ "$PY_TEST" == *";"* ]]; then
+            echo "Error: The input string must not contain ';'."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "$PY_TEST"
+
+      - name: Checkout PR branch
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.event.inputs.branch }}
+          repository: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name }}
+
+
+      - name: Install pytest 
+        run: | 
+          python -m venv /opt/venv && export PATH="/opt/venv/bin:$PATH"
+          python -m uv pip install -e [quality,test]
+          python -m uv pip install peft
+      
+      - name: Run tests
+        env: 
+            PY_TEST: ${{ github.event.inputs.test }}
+        run: |
+          pytest "$PY_TEST"