Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] selftests: net: make ovs-dpctl.py fail when pyroute2 is unsupported

From: Aaron Conole <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:32:10 -0500

Hi Aleksei,

Aleksei Oladko <[email-masked]> writes:

> The pmtu.sh kselftest configures OVS using ovs-dpctl.py and falls back
> to ovs-vsctl only when ovs-dpctl.py fails. However, ovs-dpctl.py exits
> with a success status when the installed pyroute2 package version is
> lower than 0.6, even though the OVS datapath is not configured.
>
> As a result, pmtu.sh assumes that the setup was successful and
> continues running the test, which later fails due to the missing
> OVS configuration.
>
> Fix the exit code handling in ovs-dpctl.py so that pmtu.sh can detect
> that the setup did not complete successfully and fall back to
> ovs-vsctl.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aleksei Oladko <[email-masked]>
> ---

You should also include the fixes line when you post another version:

92e37f20f20a ("selftests: openvswitch: Add version check for pyroute2")

>  tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py b/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py
> index b521e0dea506..848f61fdcee0 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/openvswitch/ovs-dpctl.py
> @@ -2583,7 +2583,7 @@ def main(argv):
>      prverscheck = pyroute2.__version__.split(".")
>      if int(prverscheck[0]) == 0 and int(prverscheck[1]) < 6:
>          print("Need to upgrade the python pyroute2 package to >= 0.6.")
> -        sys.exit(0)
> +        sys.exit(1)
>  
>      parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
>      parser.add_argument(