APPLIED: [SRU E/F] selftests: net: ip_defrag: fix spurious failures

Khaled Elmously khalid.elmously at canonical.com
Tue Jun 30 03:54:31 UTC 2020


On 2020-06-18 18:28:48 , Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1826848
> 
> One of those fixes has been accepted upstream. The other one is a workaround on
> some limitation that was discussed upstream, and very hard to fix properly.
> 
> [Impact]
> Failure to run ip_defrag deterministically.
> 
> [Fix]
> Use smaller packets and ignore EPERM.
> 
> [Test case]
> Run the test multiple times without observing failures.
> 
> [Regression potential]
> If the test fix is incorrect, it will cause us to miss real kernel bugs.
> But as it is now, we are already ignoring its results.
> 
> 
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