From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
To: Aleksei Oladko <aleksey.oladko@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>, Nir Dotan <nird@mellanox.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] selftests: net: forwarding: fix IPv6 address leak in cleanup
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 15:27:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260306132732.GA1477080@shredder> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260305211000.515301-1-aleksey.oladko@virtuozzo.com>
On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 09:10:00PM +0000, Aleksei Oladko wrote:
> Several forwarding tests (e.g., gre_multipath.sh) initialize both IPv4
> and IPv6 addresses using simple_if_init, but only clean up IPv4
> in simple_if_fini. This leaves stale IPv6 addresses on the interfaces,
> which causes subsequent tests to fail when they encounter unexpected
> address configuration.
>
> The issue can be reproduced by running tests in sequence:
> # run_kselftest.sh -t net/forwarding:ipip_hier_gre.sh
> # run_kselftest.sh -t net/forwarding:min_max_mtu.sh
> TAP version 13
> 1..1
> # timeout set to 0
> # selftests: net/forwarding: min_max_mtu.sh
> # TEST: ping [ OK ]
> # TEST: ping6 [ OK ]
> # TEST: Test maximum MTU configuration [ OK ]
> # TEST: Test traffic, packet size is maximum MTU [FAIL]
> # Ping6, packet size: 65487 succeeded, but should have failed
> # TEST: Test minimum MTU configuration [ OK ]
> # TEST: Test traffic, packet size is minimum MTU [ OK ]
> not ok 1 selftests: net/forwarding: min_max_mtu.sh # exit=1
>
> Fix this by removing the unused IPv6 argument from simple_if_init in
> tests that don't use IPv6 (gre_multipath.sh, ipip_lib.sh), and by
> adding the missing IPv6 argument to simple_if_fini in tests that
> use IPv6 (gre_multipath_nh.sh, gre_multipath_nh_res.sh).
>
> Fixes: fed926d4f64c ("selftests: forwarding: Add IP tunneling lib")
> Fixes: 902280cacc03 ("selftests: forwarding: Add resilient multipath tunneling nexthop test")
> Fixes: 54818c4c4b93 ("selftests: forwarding: Test multipath tunneling")
> Fixes: e035146d6560 ("selftests: forwarding: Add multipath tunneling nexthop test")
> Signed-off-by: Aleksei Oladko <aleksey.oladko@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-06 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-05 21:10 [PATCH v2] selftests: net: forwarding: fix IPv6 address leak in cleanup Aleksei Oladko
2026-03-06 13:27 ` Ido Schimmel [this message]
2026-03-07 1:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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