From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
edumazet@google.com, dsahern@kernel.org, horms@kernel.org,
petrm@nvidia.com, Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/5] selftests: fib-onlink: Remove "wrong nexthop device" IPv4 tests
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:08:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260111120813.159799-2-idosch@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260111120813.159799-1-idosch@nvidia.com>
According to the test description, these tests fail because of a wrong
nexthop device:
# ./fib-onlink-tests.sh -v
[...]
COMMAND: ip ro add table 254 169.254.101.102/32 via 169.254.3.1 dev veth1 onlink
Error: Nexthop has invalid gateway.
TEST: Gateway resolves to wrong nexthop device [ OK ]
COMMAND: ip ro add table 1101 169.254.102.103/32 via 169.254.7.1 dev veth5 onlink
Error: Nexthop has invalid gateway.
TEST: Gateway resolves to wrong nexthop device - VRF [ OK ]
[...]
But this is incorrect. They fail because the gateway addresses are local
addresses:
# ip -4 address show
[...]
28: veth3@if27: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000 link-netns peer_ns-Urqh3o
inet 169.254.3.1/24 scope global veth3
[...]
32: veth7@if31: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue master lisa state UP group default qlen 1000 link-netns peer_ns-Urqh3o
inet 169.254.7.1/24 scope global veth7
Therefore, using a local address that matches the nexthop device fails
as well:
# ip ro add table 254 169.254.101.102/32 via 169.254.3.1 dev veth3 onlink
Error: Nexthop has invalid gateway.
Using a gateway address with a "wrong" nexthop device is actually valid
and allowed:
# ip route get 169.254.1.2
169.254.1.2 dev veth1 src 169.254.1.1 uid 0
# ip ro add table 254 169.254.101.102/32 via 169.254.1.2 dev veth3 onlink
# echo $?
0
Remove these tests given that their output is confusing and that the
scenario that they are testing is already covered by other tests.
A subsequent patch will add tests for the nexthop device mismatch
scenario.
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/net/fib-onlink-tests.sh | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/fib-onlink-tests.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/fib-onlink-tests.sh
index ec2d6ceb1f08..1bb1c2289650 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/fib-onlink-tests.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/fib-onlink-tests.sh
@@ -315,12 +315,6 @@ invalid_onlink_ipv4()
"Invalid gw - local unicast address, VRF"
run_ip 254 ${TEST_NET4[1]}.101 ${V4ADDRS[p1]} "" 2 "No nexthop device given"
-
- run_ip 254 ${TEST_NET4[1]}.102 ${V4ADDRS[p3]} ${NETIFS[p1]} 2 \
- "Gateway resolves to wrong nexthop device"
-
- run_ip ${VRF_TABLE} ${TEST_NET4[2]}.103 ${V4ADDRS[p7]} ${NETIFS[p5]} 2 \
- "Gateway resolves to wrong nexthop device - VRF"
}
################################################################################
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-11 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-11 12:08 [PATCH net-next 0/5] ipv6: Allow for nexthop device mismatch with "onlink" Ido Schimmel
2026-01-11 12:08 ` Ido Schimmel [this message]
2026-01-12 15:25 ` [PATCH net-next 1/5] selftests: fib-onlink: Remove "wrong nexthop device" IPv4 tests David Ahern
2026-01-11 12:08 ` [PATCH net-next 2/5] selftests: fib-onlink: Remove "wrong nexthop device" IPv6 tests Ido Schimmel
2026-01-12 15:25 ` David Ahern
2026-01-11 12:08 ` [PATCH net-next 3/5] selftests: fib-onlink: Add a test case for IPv4 multicast gateway Ido Schimmel
2026-01-12 15:26 ` David Ahern
2026-01-11 12:08 ` [PATCH net-next 4/5] ipv6: Allow for nexthop device mismatch with "onlink" Ido Schimmel
2026-01-12 15:29 ` David Ahern
2026-01-11 12:08 ` [PATCH net-next 5/5] selftests: fib-onlink: Add test cases for nexthop device mismatch Ido Schimmel
2026-01-12 15:31 ` David Ahern
2026-01-14 3:00 ` [PATCH net-next 0/5] ipv6: Allow for nexthop device mismatch with "onlink" patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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