[PATCH 2/5] selftests: net: make ovs-dpctl.py fail when pyroute2 is unsupported

Aleksei Oladko
2026-01-20T23:06:17Z

The pmtu.sh kselftest configures OVS using ovs-dpctl.py and falls back
to ovs-vsctl only when ovs-dpctl.py fails. However, ovs-dpctl.py exits
with a success status when the installed pyroute2 package version is
lower than 0.6, even though the OVS datapath is not configured.

As a result, pmtu.sh assumes that the setup was successful and
continues running the test, which later fails due to the missing
OVS configuration.

Fix the exit code handling in ovs-dpctl.py so that pmtu.sh can detect
that the setup did not complete successfully and fall back to
ovs-vsctl.

Signed-off-by: Aleksei Oladko <aleksey.oladko@virtuozzo.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py b/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py
index b521e0dea506..848f61fdcee0 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py
@@ -2583,7 +2583,7 @@ def main(argv):
prverscheck = pyroute2.__version__.split(".")
if int(prverscheck[0]) == 0 and int(prverscheck[1]) < 6:
print("Need to upgrade the python pyroute2 package to >= 0.6.")
- sys.exit(0)
+ sys.exit(1)

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument(
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