This is reproducible on on stable kernels after the backport of commit: 2cf567f421db ("netdevsim: copy addresses for both in and out paths") to stable kernels. Using a single cover letter for all stable kernels but will send separate patches for each stable kernel Which kselftests are particularly failing: 2c2 < sa[0] tx ipaddr=0x00000000 00000000 00000000 047ba8c0 --- > sa[0] tx ipaddr=0x00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 FAIL: ipsec_offload incorrect driver data FAIL: ipsec_offload 813 # does driver have correct offload info 814 diff $sysfsf - << EOF 815 SA count=2 tx=3 816 sa[0] tx ipaddr=0x00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 817 sa[0] spi=0x00000009 proto=0x32 salt=0x61626364 crypt=1 818 sa[0] key=0x34333231 38373635 32313039 36353433 819 sa[1] rx ipaddr=0x00000000 00000000 00000000 037ba8c0 820 sa[1] spi=0x00000009 proto=0x32 salt=0x61626364 crypt=1 821 sa[1] key=0x34333231 38373635 32313039 36353433 822 EOF 823 if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then 824 echo "FAIL: ipsec_offload incorrect driver data" 825 check_err 1 826 fi 827 This part of check throws errors and the rtnetlink.sh fails on ipsec_offload. Reason is that the after the below patch: commit 2cf567f421dbfe7e53b7e5ddee9400da10efb75d Author: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Oct 10 04:00:26 2024 +0000 netdevsim: copy addresses for both in and out paths [ Upstream commit 2cf567f421dbfe7e53b7e5ddee9400da10efb75d ] The current code only copies the address for the in path, leaving the out path address set to 0. This patch corrects the issue by copying the addresses for both the in and out paths. Before this patch: # cat /sys/kernel/debug/netdevsim/netdevsim0/ports/0/ipsec SA count=2 tx=20 sa[0] tx ipaddr=0.0.0.0 sa[0] spi=0x00000100 proto=0x32 salt=0x0adecc3a crypt=1 sa[0] key=0x3167608a ca4f1397 43565909 941fa627 sa[1] rx ipaddr=192.168.0.1 sa[1] spi=0x00000101 proto=0x32 salt=0x0adecc3a crypt=1 sa[1] key=0x3167608a ca4f1397 43565909 941fa627 After this patch: = cat /sys/kernel/debug/netdevsim/netdevsim0/ports/0/ipsec SA count=2 tx=20 sa[0] tx ipaddr=192.168.0.2 sa[0] spi=0x00000100 proto=0x32 salt=0x0adecc3a crypt=1 sa[0] key=0x3167608a ca4f1397 43565909 941fa627 sa[1] rx ipaddr=192.168.0.1 sa[1] spi=0x00000101 proto=0x32 salt=0x0adecc3a crypt=1 sa[1] key=0x3167608a ca4f1397 43565909 941fa627 Fixes: 7699353da875 ("netdevsim: add ipsec offload testing") tx ip address is not 0.0.0.0 anymore, it is was 0.0.0.0 before above patch. So this commit: 3ec920bb978c ("selftests: rtnetlink: update netdevsim ipsec output format") which is not backported to stable kernels tries to address rtneltlink.sh fixing. fixes the change in handling tx ip address as well, so far so good! but when I apply this script fix it doesn't pass yet: 2c2 < sa[0] tx ipaddr=0x00000000 00000000 00000000 047ba8c0 --- > sa[0] tx ipaddr=192.168.123.4 5c5 < sa[1] rx ipaddr=0x00000000 00000000 00000000 037ba8c0 --- > sa[1] rx ipaddr=192.168.123.3 FAIL: ipsec_offload incorrect driver data So it clearly suggest that addresses are not properly handled, IPSec addresses are printed in hexadecimal format, but the script expects it in more readable format, that hinted me whats missing, and that commit is: commit c71bc6da6198a6d88df86094f1052bb581951d65 Author: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Oct 10 04:00:25 2024 +0000 netdevsim: print human readable IP address Currently, IPSec addresses are printed in hexadecimal format, which is not user-friendly. e.g. # cat /sys/kernel/debug/netdevsim/netdevsim0/ports/0/ipsec SA count=2 tx=20 sa[0] rx ipaddr=0x00000000 00000000 00000000 0100a8c0 sa[0] spi=0x00000101 proto=0x32 salt=0x0adecc3a crypt=1 sa[0] key=0x3167608a ca4f1397 43565909 941fa627 sa[1] tx ipaddr=0x00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 sa[1] spi=0x00000100 proto=0x32 salt=0x0adecc3a crypt=1 sa[1] key=0x3167608a ca4f1397 43565909 941fa627 This patch updates the code to print the IPSec address in a human-readable format for easier debug. e.g. # cat /sys/kernel/debug/netdevsim/netdevsim0/ports/0/ipsec SA count=4 tx=40 sa[0] tx ipaddr=0.0.0.0 sa[0] spi=0x00000100 proto=0x32 salt=0x0adecc3a crypt=1 sa[0] key=0x3167608a ca4f1397 43565909 941fa627 sa[1] rx ipaddr=192.168.0.1 sa[1] spi=0x00000101 proto=0x32 salt=0x0adecc3a crypt=1 sa[1] key=0x3167608a ca4f1397 43565909 941fa627 sa[2] tx ipaddr=:: sa[2] spi=0x00000100 proto=0x32 salt=0x0adecc3a crypt=1 sa[2] key=0x3167608a ca4f1397 43565909 941fa627 sa[3] rx ipaddr=2000::1 sa[3] spi=0x00000101 proto=0x32 salt=0x0adecc3a crypt=1 sa[3] key=0x3167608a ca4f1397 43565909 941fa627 Solution: ======== Backport both the commits commit: c71bc6da6198 ("netdevsim: print human readable IP address") and script fixup commit: 3ec920bb978c ("selftests: rtnetlink: update netdevsim ipsec output format") to all stable kernels which have commit: 2cf567f421db ("netdevsim: copy addresses for both in and out paths") in them. Another clue to say this is right way to do this is that these above three patches did go as patchset into net/ [1]. I am sending patches for all stable trees differently, however I am using same cover letter. Tested all stable kernels after patching. This failure is no more reproducible. Thanks, Harshit [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/172868703973.3018281.2970275743967117794.git-patchwork-notify@xxxxxxxxxx/ Hangbin Liu (2): netdevsim: print human readable IP address selftests: rtnetlink: update netdevsim ipsec output format drivers/net/netdevsim/ipsec.c | 12 ++++++++---- tools/testing/selftests/net/rtnetlink.sh | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) -- 2.46.0