Re: [PATCH] selftests: pmtu: use -oneline for ip route list cache

From: Stefano Brivio
Date: Fri Nov 29 2019 - 09:39:59 EST


Hi,

On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 15:58:06 -0300
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Some versions of iproute2 will output more than one line per entry, which
> will cause the test to fail, like:
>
> TEST: ipv6: list and flush cached exceptions [FAIL]
> can't list cached exceptions
>
> That happens, for example, with iproute2 4.15.0. When using the -oneline
> option, this will work just fine:
>
> TEST: ipv6: list and flush cached exceptions [ OK ]
>
> This also works just fine with a more recent version of iproute2, like
> 5.4.0.
>
> For some reason, two lines are printed for the IPv4 test no matter what
> version of iproute2 is used. Use the same -oneline parameter there instead
> of counting the lines twice.

Thanks, it looks definitely more robust this way.

Fixes: b964641e9925 ("selftests: pmtu: Make list_flush_ipv6_exception test more demanding")

> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Stefano