Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] selftests: forwarding: lib.sh: ignore "Address not found"

From: Ido Schimmel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2024 10:40:25 +0300

On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 12:20:38PM +0800, Geliang Tang wrote:
> From: Geliang Tang <[email-masked]>
> 
> So many "Address not found" messages occur at the end of forwarding tests
> when using "ip address del" command for an invalid address:

Can you give an example of an invalid address that triggers this
message?

> 
> TEST: FDB limits interacting with FDB type local                    [ OK ]
> Error: ipv4: Address not found.
> 
> ... ...
> TEST: IGMPv3 S,G port entry automatic add to a *,G port             [ OK ]
> Error: ipv4: Address not found.
> Error: ipv6: address not found.
> 
> ... ...
> TEST: Isolated port flooding                                        [ OK ]
> Error: ipv4: Address not found.
> Error: ipv6: address not found.
> 
> ... ...
> TEST: Externally learned FDB entry - ageing & roaming               [ OK ]
> Error: ipv4: Address not found.
> Error: ipv6: address not found.

I'm unable to reproduce these with net-next and iproute2-next. Please
debug this to understand the root cause or provide more details on how
to reproduce.

> 
> This patch gnores these messages and redirects them to /dev/null in
> __addr_add_del().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh
> index ff96bb7535ff..8670b6053cde 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh
> @@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ __addr_add_del()
>  	array=("${@}")
>  
>  	for addrstr in "${array[@]}"; do
> -		ip address $add_del $addrstr dev $if_name
> +		ip address $add_del $addrstr dev $if_name &> /dev/null
>  	done
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.43.0
>