Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] net/selftests: TCP-AO selftests updates

From: Dmitry Safonov
Date: Fri Aug 02 2024 - 20:50:41 EST


Hi Jakub,

On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 at 16:18, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 02 Aug 2024 10:23:24 +0100 Dmitry Safonov via B4 Relay wrote:
> > First 4 patches are more-or-less cleanups/preparations.
> >
> > Patch 5 was sent to me/contributed off-list by Mohammad, who wants 32-bit
> > kernels to run TCP-AO.
> >
> > Patch 6 is a workaround/fix for slow VMs. Albeit, I can't reproduce
> > the issue, but I hope it will fix netdev flakes for connect-deny-*
> > tests.
>
> Hm, could be a coincidence but we did hit:
>
> # not ok 55 # error 381[unsigned-md5.c:24] Failed to add a VRF: -17
> # not ok 56 # error 383[unsigned-md5.c:33] Failed to add a route to VRF: -22: Key was rejected by service
>
> https://netdev-3.bots.linux.dev/vmksft-tcp-ao-dbg/results/710001/4-unsigned-md5-ipv6/stdout

Yeah, I think I've seen that previously on netdev as well, but quite rarely.
Let me take a look and see why adding a VRF table sometimes fails with EEXIST.

> in the first run after this got queued. But the retry worked:
>
> https://netdev-3.bots.linux.dev/vmksft-tcp-ao-dbg/results/710001/4-unsigned-md5-ipv6-retry/stdout
>
> 🤷️

[from another email]
> oooh another run, another (different) flake:
> https://netdev-3.bots.linux.dev/vmksft-tcp-ao-dbg/results/710181/11-key-management-ipv4/stdout

Yeah, this is related to this very patch set.
Some more work clearly needed :-)

Thanks,
Dmitry