From: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> If the client can't reach the server, the latter remains listening forever. Kill it after 5s of waiting. Fixes: 867d2190799a ("selftests: netfilter: add ipvs test script") Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/ipvs.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/ipvs.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/ipvs.sh index 4ceee9fb3949..d3edb16cd4b3 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/ipvs.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/ipvs.sh @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ cleanup() { } server_listen() { - ip netns exec "$ns2" socat -u -4 TCP-LISTEN:8080,reuseaddr STDOUT > "${outfile}" & + ip netns exec "$ns2" timeout 5 socat -u -4 TCP-LISTEN:8080,reuseaddr STDOUT > "${outfile}" & server_pid=$! sleep 0.2 } -- 2.30.2