This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled selftests/bpf: Make test_lwt_ip_encap more stable and faster to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: selftests-bpf-make-test_lwt_ip_encap-more-stable-and.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit df3fbadccde3b5f7b219f20809c003448279beec Author: Felix Maurer <fmaurer@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 3 12:15:26 2022 +0100 selftests/bpf: Make test_lwt_ip_encap more stable and faster [ Upstream commit d23a8720327d33616f584d76c80824bfa4699be6 ] In test_lwt_ip_encap, the ingress IPv6 encap test failed from time to time. The failure occured when an IPv4 ping through the IPv6 GRE encapsulation did not receive a reply within the timeout. The IPv4 ping and the IPv6 ping in the test used different timeouts (1 sec for IPv4 and 6 sec for IPv6), probably taking into account that IPv6 might need longer to successfully complete. However, when IPv4 pings (with the short timeout) are encapsulated into the IPv6 tunnel, the delays of IPv6 apply. The actual reason for the long delays with IPv6 was that the IPv6 neighbor discovery sometimes did not complete in time. This was caused by the outgoing interface only having a tentative link local address, i.e., not having completed DAD for that lladdr. The ND was successfully retried after 1 sec but that was too late for the ping timeout. The IPv6 addresses for the test were already added with nodad. However, for the lladdrs, DAD was still performed. We now disable DAD in the test netns completely and just assume that the two lladdrs on each veth pair do not collide. This removes all the delays for IPv6 traffic in the test. Without the delays, we can now also reduce the delay of the IPv6 ping to 1 sec. This makes the whole test complete faster because we don't need to wait for the excessive timeout for each IPv6 ping that is supposed to fail. Fixes: 0fde56e4385b0 ("selftests: bpf: add test_lwt_ip_encap selftest") Signed-off-by: Felix Maurer <fmaurer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/4987d549d48b4e316cd5b3936de69c8d4bc75a4f.1646305899.git.fmaurer@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_lwt_ip_encap.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_lwt_ip_encap.sh index b497bb85b667..6c69c42b1d60 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_lwt_ip_encap.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_lwt_ip_encap.sh @@ -120,6 +120,14 @@ setup() ip netns exec ${NS2} sysctl -wq net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter=0 ip netns exec ${NS3} sysctl -wq net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter=0 + # disable IPv6 DAD because it sometimes takes too long and fails tests + ip netns exec ${NS1} sysctl -wq net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_dad=0 + ip netns exec ${NS2} sysctl -wq net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_dad=0 + ip netns exec ${NS3} sysctl -wq net.ipv6.conf.all.accept_dad=0 + ip netns exec ${NS1} sysctl -wq net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_dad=0 + ip netns exec ${NS2} sysctl -wq net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_dad=0 + ip netns exec ${NS3} sysctl -wq net.ipv6.conf.default.accept_dad=0 + ip link add veth1 type veth peer name veth2 ip link add veth3 type veth peer name veth4 ip link add veth5 type veth peer name veth6 @@ -289,7 +297,7 @@ test_ping() ip netns exec ${NS1} ping -c 1 -W 1 -I veth1 ${IPv4_DST} 2>&1 > /dev/null RET=$? elif [ "${PROTO}" == "IPv6" ] ; then - ip netns exec ${NS1} ping6 -c 1 -W 6 -I veth1 ${IPv6_DST} 2>&1 > /dev/null + ip netns exec ${NS1} ping6 -c 1 -W 1 -I veth1 ${IPv6_DST} 2>&1 > /dev/null RET=$? else echo " test_ping: unknown PROTO: ${PROTO}"