New NIPA installation had been reporting a few flaky tests. arp_ndisc_evict_nocarrier is most flaky of them all. I suspect that the flakiness is due to udev swapping the MAC addresses on the interfaces. Extend the message in arp_ndisc_evict_nocarrier to hint at this potential issue. Having the neigh get fail right after ping is rather unusual, unless udev changes the MAC addr causing a flush in the meantime.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org --- CC: shuah@kernel.org CC: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org --- tools/testing/selftests/net/arp_ndisc_evict_nocarrier.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/arp_ndisc_evict_nocarrier.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/arp_ndisc_evict_nocarrier.sh index 92eb880c52f2..00758f00efbf 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/arp_ndisc_evict_nocarrier.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/arp_ndisc_evict_nocarrier.sh @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ setup_v4() { ip neigh get $V4_ADDR1 dev veth0 >/dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then cleanup_v4 - echo "failed" + echo "failed; is the system using MACAddressPolicy=persistent ?" exit 1 fi