From: David Yang mmyangfl@gmail.com
[ Upstream commit 50d51cef555ee42fe47dd51b71366a77895e5f0b ]
Quoted from musl wiki:
GNU getopt permutes argv to pull options to the front, ahead of non-option arguments. musl and the POSIX standard getopt stop processing options at the first non-option argument with no permutation.
Thus these scripts stop working on musl since non-option arguments for tools using getopt() (in this case, (ar)ping) do not always come last. Fix it by reordering arguments.
Signed-off-by: David Yang mmyangfl@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Petr Machata petrm@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel idosch@nvidia.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250919053538.1106753-1-mmyangfl@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org ---
LLM Generated explanations, may be completely bogus:
YES – This change fixes real breakage in the forwarding selftests on musl-based systems by making every `(ar)ping` invocation conform to POSIX `getopt`, letting mandatory options actually be parsed instead of being ignored once the destination argument appears.
- In `tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh:1279`, `ping_do()` now places `$args` before the `-c/-i/-w` switches and the destination, ensuring loops that rely on `-c $PING_COUNT` terminate. On musl, the old ordering (`dest -c …`) caused `getopt` to stop parsing at the destination, so the count limit was silently dropped and tests could hang. - The same reordering is applied to IPv6 helpers and stress loops such as `send_flowlabel()` in `custom_multipath_hash.sh:226`, `gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh:227`, and `ip6gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh:228`, as well as the IPv6 stats tests in `ip6_forward_instats_vrf.sh:98:153`. Without it, options like `-F 0` or `-c 1` were ignored, so these scripts failed immediately under musl’s strict `getopt`. - `mirror_gre_bridge_1q_lag.sh:241` and `mirror_gre_vlan_bridge_1q.sh:199/293` now pass the target host last to `arping`, guaranteeing that `-qfc 1` takes effect. Previously, `-c 1` was never seen on musl, leaving `arping` running indefinitely and stalling the tests.
The fix is tiny, self-contained, and purely in user-space test scripts, but it restores the ability to run the forwarding selftests on musl- based distros (e.g., Alpine) without changing behaviour on glibc systems. Given the clear user impact and negligible regression risk, it’s a good candidate for stable backporting. Consider running the forwarding selftest suite once on a musl environment after backporting to confirm the improvement.
.../selftests/net/forwarding/custom_multipath_hash.sh | 2 +- .../selftests/net/forwarding/gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh | 2 +- .../selftests/net/forwarding/ip6_forward_instats_vrf.sh | 6 +++--- .../net/forwarding/ip6gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh | 8 ++++---- .../selftests/net/forwarding/mirror_gre_bridge_1q_lag.sh | 2 +- .../selftests/net/forwarding/mirror_gre_vlan_bridge_1q.sh | 4 ++-- 7 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/custom_multipath_hash.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/custom_multipath_hash.sh index 7d531f7091e6f..5dbfab0e23e3d 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/custom_multipath_hash.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/custom_multipath_hash.sh @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ 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 2001:db8:4::2 -F 0 -c 1 -q >/dev/null 2>&1; \ + $PING6 -F 0 -c 1 -q 2001:db8:4::2 >/dev/null 2>&1; \ done" }
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh index dda11a4a9450a..b4f17a5bbc614 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ send_flowlabel() # Generate 16384 echo requests, each with a random flow label. ip vrf exec v$h1 sh -c \ "for _ in {1..16384}; do \ - $PING6 2001:db8:2::2 -F 0 -c 1 -q >/dev/null 2>&1; \ + $PING6 -F 0 -c 1 -q 2001:db8:2::2 >/dev/null 2>&1; \ done" }
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/ip6_forward_instats_vrf.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/ip6_forward_instats_vrf.sh index 49fa94b53a1ca..25036e38043c8 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/ip6_forward_instats_vrf.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/ip6_forward_instats_vrf.sh @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ ipv6_in_too_big_err()
# Send too big packets ip vrf exec $vrf_name \ - $PING6 -s 1300 2001:1:2::2 -c 1 -w $PING_TIMEOUT &> /dev/null + $PING6 -s 1300 -c 1 -w $PING_TIMEOUT 2001:1:2::2 &> /dev/null
local t1=$(ipv6_stats_get $rtr1 Ip6InTooBigErrors) test "$((t1 - t0))" -ne 0 @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ ipv6_in_addr_err() # Disable forwarding temporary while sending the packet sysctl -qw net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=0 ip vrf exec $vrf_name \ - $PING6 2001:1:2::2 -c 1 -w $PING_TIMEOUT &> /dev/null + $PING6 -c 1 -w $PING_TIMEOUT 2001:1:2::2 &> /dev/null sysctl -qw net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
local t1=$(ipv6_stats_get $rtr1 Ip6InAddrErrors) @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ ipv6_in_discard() # Add a policy to discard ip xfrm policy add dst 2001:1:2::2/128 dir fwd action block ip vrf exec $vrf_name \ - $PING6 2001:1:2::2 -c 1 -w $PING_TIMEOUT &> /dev/null + $PING6 -c 1 -w $PING_TIMEOUT 2001:1:2::2 &> /dev/null ip xfrm policy del dst 2001:1:2::2/128 dir fwd
local t1=$(ipv6_stats_get $rtr1 Ip6InDiscards) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/ip6gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/ip6gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh index e28b4a079e525..b24acfa52a3a7 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/ip6gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/ip6gre_custom_multipath_hash.sh @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ send_flowlabel() # Generate 16384 echo requests, each with a random flow label. ip vrf exec v$h1 sh -c \ "for _ in {1..16384}; do \ - $PING6 2001:db8:2::2 -F 0 -c 1 -q >/dev/null 2>&1; \ + $PING6 -F 0 -c 1 -q 2001:db8:2::2 >/dev/null 2>&1; \ done" }
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh index 890b3374dacda..593077cf05937 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh @@ -1291,8 +1291,8 @@ ping_do()
vrf_name=$(master_name_get $if_name) ip vrf exec $vrf_name \ - $PING $args $dip -c $PING_COUNT -i 0.1 \ - -w $PING_TIMEOUT &> /dev/null + $PING $args -c $PING_COUNT -i 0.1 \ + -w $PING_TIMEOUT $dip &> /dev/null }
ping_test() @@ -1322,8 +1322,8 @@ ping6_do()
vrf_name=$(master_name_get $if_name) ip vrf exec $vrf_name \ - $PING6 $args $dip -c $PING_COUNT -i 0.1 \ - -w $PING_TIMEOUT &> /dev/null + $PING6 $args -c $PING_COUNT -i 0.1 \ + -w $PING_TIMEOUT $dip &> /dev/null }
ping6_test() diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/mirror_gre_bridge_1q_lag.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/mirror_gre_bridge_1q_lag.sh index a20d22d1df362..8d4ae6c952a1f 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/mirror_gre_bridge_1q_lag.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/mirror_gre_bridge_1q_lag.sh @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ test_lag_slave() ip neigh flush dev br1 setup_wait_dev $up_dev setup_wait_dev $host_dev - $ARPING -I br1 192.0.2.130 -qfc 1 + $ARPING -I br1 -qfc 1 192.0.2.130 sleep 2 mirror_test vrf-h1 192.0.2.1 192.0.2.18 $host_dev 1 ">= 10"
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/mirror_gre_vlan_bridge_1q.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/mirror_gre_vlan_bridge_1q.sh index 1b902cc579f62..a21c771908b33 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/mirror_gre_vlan_bridge_1q.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/mirror_gre_vlan_bridge_1q.sh @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ test_span_gre_forbidden_egress()
bridge vlan add dev $swp3 vid 555 # Re-prime FDB - $ARPING -I br1.555 192.0.2.130 -fqc 1 + $ARPING -I br1.555 -fqc 1 192.0.2.130 sleep 1 quick_test_span_gre_dir $tundev
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ test_span_gre_fdb_roaming()
bridge fdb del dev $swp2 $h3mac vlan 555 master 2>/dev/null # Re-prime FDB - $ARPING -I br1.555 192.0.2.130 -fqc 1 + $ARPING -I br1.555 -fqc 1 192.0.2.130 sleep 1 quick_test_span_gre_dir $tundev