From: Hangbin Liu <hangbin.liu@linux.dev>
To: Jin Li <jinli@lanxincomputing.com>
Cc: dsahern@kernel.org, idosch@nvidia.com, shuah@kernel.org,
davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] selftests: net: forwarding: replace bash brace expansion with seq
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 09:32:49 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <avPFwYGo8ssob1n4@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261110024123.535210-1-jinli@lanxincomputing.com>
On Tue, Nov 10, 2026 at 10:41:23AM +0800, Jin Li wrote:
> {1..16384} is bash-specific brace expansion and will not work with POSIX
> shells like dash or busybox ash. This breaks the flowlabel test when
> /bin/sh is not bash.
>
> Use $(seq 1 16384) for portable iteration. Fix the same issue in
> custom_multipath_hash.sh, gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh and
> ip6gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh.
>
> Fixes: 555e5531635a ("selftests: net/forwarding: spawn sh inside vrf to speed up ping loop")
> Signed-off-by: Jin Li <jinli@lanxincomputing.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - Add Fixes tag
>
> .../selftests/net/forwarding/custom_multipath_hash.sh | 8 ++++----
> .../selftests/net/forwarding/gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh | 8 ++++----
> .../net/forwarding/ip6gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh | 8 ++++----
> 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/custom_multipath_hash.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/custom_multipath_hash.sh
> index 5dbfab0e2..92940370e 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/custom_multipath_hash.sh
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/custom_multipath_hash.sh
> @@ -224,10 +224,10 @@ send_dst_ipv6()
> send_flowlabel()
> {
> # Generate 16384 echo requests, each with a random flow label.
> - ip vrf exec v$h1 sh -c \
> - "for _ in {1..16384}; do \
> - $PING6 -F 0 -c 1 -q 2001:db8:4::2 >/dev/null 2>&1; \
> - done"
> + ip vrf exec v$h1 sh -c '
> + for _ in $(seq 1 16384); do
> + '"$PING6"' -F 0 -c 1 -q 2001:db8:4::2 >/dev/null 2>&1
> + done'
> }
>
> send_src_udp6()
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh
> index b4f17a5bb..19384be4b 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh
> @@ -319,10 +319,10 @@ send_dst_ipv6()
> send_flowlabel()
> {
> # Generate 16384 echo requests, each with a random flow label.
> - ip vrf exec v$h1 sh -c \
> - "for _ in {1..16384}; do \
> - $PING6 -F 0 -c 1 -q 2001:db8:2::2 >/dev/null 2>&1; \
> - done"
> + ip vrf exec v$h1 sh -c '
> + for _ in $(seq 1 16384); do
> + '"$PING6"' -F 0 -c 1 -q 2001:db8:2::2 >/dev/null 2>&1
> + done'
> }
>
> send_src_udp6()
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/ip6gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/ip6gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh
> index b24acfa52..d848e82d4 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/ip6gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/ip6gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh
> @@ -321,10 +321,10 @@ send_dst_ipv6()
> send_flowlabel()
> {
> # Generate 16384 echo requests, each with a random flow label.
> - ip vrf exec v$h1 sh -c \
> - "for _ in {1..16384}; do \
> - $PING6 -F 0 -c 1 -q 2001:db8:2::2 >/dev/null 2>&1; \
> - done"
> + ip vrf exec v$h1 sh -c '
> + for _ in $(seq 1 16384); do
> + '"$PING6"' -F 0 -c 1 -q 2001:db8:2::2 >/dev/null 2>&1
> + done'
> }
>
> send_src_udp6()
> --
> 2.53.0
Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@kylinos.cn>
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