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authorDanielle Ratson <danieller@nvidia.com>2023-06-12 16:34:58 +0200
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2023-06-14 12:40:02 +0200
commitbef68e201e538eaa3a91f97aae8161eb2d0a8ed7 (patch)
tree79d6afe5cdbfeac64f06af615070553dca1dd8e8
parent3b0d2819522235d003df8da68caadc5d226d4c1d (diff)
downloadlinux-bef68e201e538eaa3a91f97aae8161eb2d0a8ed7.tar.gz
selftests: forwarding: hw_stats_l3: Set addrgenmode in a separate step
Setting the IPv6 address generation mode of a net device during its creation never worked, but after commit b0ad3c179059 ("rtnetlink: call validate_linkmsg in rtnl_create_link") it explicitly fails [1]. The failure is caused by the fact that validate_linkmsg() is called before the net device is registered, when it still does not have an 'inet6_dev'. Likewise, raising the net device before setting the address generation mode is meaningless, because by the time the mode is set, the address has already been generated. Therefore, fix the test to first create the net device, then set its IPv6 address generation mode and finally bring it up. [1] # ip link add name mydev addrgenmode eui64 type dummy RTNETLINK answers: Address family not supported by protocol Fixes: ba95e7930957 ("selftests: forwarding: hw_stats_l3: Add a new test") Signed-off-by: Danielle Ratson <danieller@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f3b05d85b2bc0c3d6168fe8f7207c6c8365703db.1686580046.git.petrm@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
-rwxr-xr-xtools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/hw_stats_l3.sh11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/hw_stats_l3.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/hw_stats_l3.sh
index 432fe846985195..48584a51388fd9 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/hw_stats_l3.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/hw_stats_l3.sh
@@ -84,8 +84,9 @@ h2_destroy()
router_rp1_200_create()
{
- ip link add name $rp1.200 up \
- link $rp1 addrgenmode eui64 type vlan id 200
+ ip link add name $rp1.200 link $rp1 type vlan id 200
+ ip link set dev $rp1.200 addrgenmode eui64
+ ip link set dev $rp1.200 up
ip address add dev $rp1.200 192.0.2.2/28
ip address add dev $rp1.200 2001:db8:1::2/64
ip stats set dev $rp1.200 l3_stats on
@@ -256,9 +257,11 @@ reapply_config()
router_rp1_200_destroy
- ip link add name $rp1.200 link $rp1 addrgenmode none type vlan id 200
+ ip link add name $rp1.200 link $rp1 type vlan id 200
+ ip link set dev $rp1.200 addrgenmode none
ip stats set dev $rp1.200 l3_stats on
- ip link set dev $rp1.200 up addrgenmode eui64
+ ip link set dev $rp1.200 addrgenmode eui64
+ ip link set dev $rp1.200 up
ip address add dev $rp1.200 192.0.2.2/28
ip address add dev $rp1.200 2001:db8:1::2/64
}