And thus avoid a Python stacktrace: ~/linux/tools/testing/selftests/net$ ./devlink_port_split.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/./devlink_port_split.py", line 277, in <module> main() File "/home/linux/tools/testing/selftests/net/./devlink_port_split.py", line 242, in main dev = list(devs.keys())[0] IndexError: list index out of range Signed-off-by: Paolo Pisati <paolo.pisati@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/net/devlink_port_split.py | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/devlink_port_split.py b/tools/testing/selftests/net/devlink_port_split.py index 834066d465fc..d162915311fd 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/devlink_port_split.py +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/devlink_port_split.py @@ -239,6 +239,9 @@ def main(cmdline=None): assert stderr == "" devs = json.loads(stdout)['dev'] + if len(devs.keys()) == 0: + print("no devlink device found") + sys.exit(1) dev = list(devs.keys())[0] cmd = "devlink dev show %s" % dev -- 2.30.2