On 6/17/24 10:28, Simon Horman wrote:
openvswitch.sh makes use of substitutions of the form ${ns:0:1}, to
obtain the first character of $ns. Empirically, this is works with bash
but not dash. When run with dash these evaluate to an empty string and
printing an error to stdout.
# dash -c 'ns=client; echo "${ns:0:1}"' 2>error
# cat error
dash: 1: Bad substitution
# bash -c 'ns=client; echo "${ns:0:1}"' 2>error
c
# cat error
This leads to tests that neither pass nor fail.
F.e.
TEST: arp_ping [START]
adding sandbox 'test_arp_ping'
Adding DP/Bridge IF: sbx:test_arp_ping dp:arpping {, , }
create namespaces
./openvswitch.sh: 282: eval: Bad substitution
TEST: ct_connect_v4 [START]
adding sandbox 'test_ct_connect_v4'
Adding DP/Bridge IF: sbx:test_ct_connect_v4 dp:ct4 {, , }
./openvswitch.sh: 322: eval: Bad substitution
create namespaces
Resolve this by making openvswitch.sh a bash script.
Fixes: 918423fda910 ("selftests: openvswitch: add an initial flow programming case")
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
That's good fix,
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@xxxxxxxxx>
sidenote: I like very much the idea to use the least powerful tool, like
sh vs bash, awk vs gawk, but it breaks when we forget what is outside of
the scope of the former/standard.
Perhaps for shell, we could convert all the selftests at once?
---
tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/openvswitch.sh | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/openvswitch.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/openvswitch.sh
index 5cae53543849..15bca0708717 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/openvswitch.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/openvswitch.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#
# OVS kernel module self tests
