This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
selftests: openvswitch: Use bash as interpreter
to the 6.6-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-openvswitch-use-bash-as-interpreter.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 70d45ea111f3cf35390b5b069dfab74eb294e26a
Author: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jun 17 09:28:33 2024 +0100
selftests: openvswitch: Use bash as interpreter
[ Upstream commit e2b447c9a1bba718f9c07513a1e8958209e862a1 ]
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>
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240617-ovs-selftest-bash-v1-1-7ae6ccd3617b@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/openvswitch.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/openvswitch.sh
index 36e40256ab92a..bab7436c68348 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
