Re: [net PATCH 1/2] selftests: net: lib: fix broken ping with coreutils ping util

[Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 05:43:07PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 12:33:09PM +0100, Christian Marangi wrote:
> > If the coreutils variant of ping is used instead of the busybox one, the
> > ping_do() command is broken. This comes by the fact that for coreutils
> > ping, the ping IP needs to be the very last elements.
> > 
> > To handle this, reorder the ping args and make $dip last element.
> > 
> > The use of coreutils ping might be useful for case where busybox is not
> > compiled with float interval support and ping command doesn't support
> > 0.1 interval. (in such case a dedicated ping utility is installed
> > instead)
> > 
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Fixes: 73bae6736b6b ("selftests: forwarding: Add initial testing framework")
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
> > ---
> 
> Do you mean the other way around? that the busybox ping is the broken one?
> And by coreutils ping, you actually mean iputils ping, right?

Mhh no busybox ping utility is problematic only if FLOAT INTERVAL is not
enabled (aka 0.1 interval are not supported)

Yes I'm referring to iputils ping. With that I notice args are wrongly
parsed... especially with the -c option.

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