To give more information on this issue: ip_defrag will send a randomly-sized packet, and the result depends on that size, so we will see intermittent failures because of this reason.
But not this reason alone. The test that fails require a conntrack rule that will cause all fragments to be queued, and, then, sent all at once through the loopback interface. If the loop that sends all those packets is preempted, the problem may not show up, so there is one more cause for the failures to be intermittent. If it's not preempted, it might end up pushing more than 1000 packets, causing some of them to be dropped because of the backlog limit, which will cause the test to fail. Raising the backlog limit or adjusting the maximum packet size on the test would fix it. The concern about raising the backlog limit is that it might affect other tests, even if it's rollbacked after the test, because some tests might run in parallel. We could adjust the maximum size, but this would be not be upstreamable, as Eric Dumazet argues this is a real bug that should be fixed. In fact, I managed to reproduce it using veth. On the other hand, I couldn't think of an easy way to fix this. Changing those drivers to skip the backlog doesn't seem a good idea to me. Cascardo. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1826848 Title: ip_defrag.sh in net from ubuntu_kernel_selftests failed with 5.0 / 5.3 kernel Status in ubuntu-kernel-tests: Confirmed Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in linux source package in Disco: Confirmed Status in linux source package in Eoan: Confirmed Bug description: Test failed becuase: ./ip_defrag: sendto overlap: 1400: Operation not permitted selftests: net: ip_defrag.sh ======================================== ipv6 tx:17 gso:1 (fail) OK ipv4 defrag PASS seed = 1556203721 ipv4 defrag with overlaps PASS seed = 1556203722 ipv6 defrag seed = 1556203756 PASS ipv6 defrag with overlaps seed = 1556203756 ./ip_defrag: sendto overlap: 1400: Operation not permitted not ok 1..17 selftests: net: ip_defrag.sh [FAIL] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-kernel-tests/+bug/1826848/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
