[PATCH] selftests: net: veth: check UDP GRO forwarding on forwarded traffic

From: Eva Kurchatova

Date: Mon Oct 26 2026 - 08:25:19 EST


The rx-udp-gro-forwarding checks fail with "got 10 packets, expected 1"
on a host where something has a UDP tunnel socket, a vxlan say, and
pass on a host where nothing does. Since commit 36707061d6ba ("udp:
allow forwarding of plain (non-fraglisted) UDP GRO packets") the
feature aggregates only datagrams GRO finds no socket for, and GRO
looks the socket up only once a tunnel socket exists on the host; the
checks send to a socket in the receiving namespace, so they pass only
while nothing looks it up.

Let the destination forward the datagrams to a receiver in a namespace
behind it: no local socket is found there, tunnel or not, and the
checks count what the destination receives as before.

Fixes: 1c3cadbe0242 ("self-tests: add veth tests")
Suggested-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAF=yD-LZSec9g_0bBgrcQvq2OO1BrxMSRHH=uU7eamCmWcTO_A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Eva Kurchatova <eva.kurchatova@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/net/veth.sh | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/veth.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/veth.sh
index 8b867e0675a7..be7c6b9213a9 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/veth.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/veth.sh
@@ -9,12 +9,17 @@ readonly DST=1
readonly DST_NAT=100
readonly NS_SRC=$BASE$SRC
readonly NS_DST=$BASE$DST
+# The receiver of the GRO checks, behind the destination
+readonly RCV=3
+readonly NS_RCV=$BASE$RCV
# shellcheck disable=SC2155 # prefer RO variable over return value from cmd
readonly YNL="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")/../../../net/ynl/pyynl/cli.py"

# "baremetal" network used for raw UDP traffic
readonly BM_NET_V4=192.168.1.
readonly BM_NET_V6=2001:db8::
+# Network between the destination and the receiver
+readonly RCV_NET_V4=192.168.2.

readonly CPUS=`nproc`
ret=0
@@ -26,7 +31,7 @@ cleanup() {
[ -n "${jobs}" ] && kill -1 ${jobs} 2>/dev/null
rm -f $STATS

- for ns in $NS_SRC $NS_DST; do
+ for ns in $NS_SRC $NS_DST $NS_RCV; do
ip netns del $ns 2>/dev/null
done
}
@@ -48,6 +53,17 @@ create_ns() {
ip -n $BASE$ns addr add dev veth$ns $BM_NET_V4$ns/24
ip -n $BASE$ns addr add dev veth$ns $BM_NET_V6$ns/64 nodad
done
+
+ # Forwarded, the datagrams find no local socket, whatever tunnel the host has
+ ip netns add $NS_RCV
+ ip -n $NS_RCV link set dev lo up
+ ip link add name fwd$DST type veth peer name fwd$RCV
+ ip link set dev fwd$DST netns $NS_DST up
+ ip link set dev fwd$RCV netns $NS_RCV up
+ ip -n $NS_DST addr add dev fwd$DST $RCV_NET_V4$DST/24
+ ip -n $NS_RCV addr add dev fwd$RCV $RCV_NET_V4$RCV/24
+ ip netns exec $NS_DST sysctl -wq net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
+ ip -n $NS_RCV route add default via $RCV_NET_V4$DST
}

__chk_flag() {
@@ -134,15 +150,17 @@ chk_gro() {
local msg="$1"
local expected=$2

- ip netns exec $BASE$SRC ping -qc 1 $BM_NET_V4$DST >/dev/null
+ # Taking veth$SRC down drops the route, so set it for every check
+ ip -n $NS_SRC route replace ${RCV_NET_V4}0/24 via $BM_NET_V4$DST
+ ip netns exec $BASE$SRC ping -qc 1 $RCV_NET_V4$RCV >/dev/null
NSTAT_HISTORY=$STATS ip netns exec $NS_DST nstat -n

printf "%-60s" "$msg"
- ip netns exec $BASE$DST ./udpgso_bench_rx -C 1000 -R 10 &
+ ip netns exec $NS_RCV ./udpgso_bench_rx -C 1000 -R 10 &
local spid=$!
sleep 0.1

- ip netns exec $NS_SRC ./udpgso_bench_tx -4 -s 13000 -S 1300 -M 1 -D $BM_NET_V4$DST
+ ip netns exec $NS_SRC ./udpgso_bench_tx -4 -s 13000 -S 1300 -M 1 -D $RCV_NET_V4$RCV
local retc=$?
wait $spid
local rets=$?
--
2.56.0