As pointed out by Michal Kubecek, getting the name with the previous approach was racy, it's better and easier to get the name of the device with this patch's approach.
Essentialy the function doesn't need to exist anymore as it's a simple 'ls' command. Signed-off-by: Antonio Cardace <acard...@redhat.com> --- .../drivers/net/netdevsim/ethtool-common.sh | 20 ++----------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/netdevsim/ethtool-common.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/netdevsim/ethtool-common.sh index fa44cf6e732c..3c287ac78117 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/netdevsim/ethtool-common.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/netdevsim/ethtool-common.sh @@ -20,23 +20,6 @@ function cleanup { trap cleanup EXIT -function get_netdev_name { - local -n old=$1 - - new=$(ls /sys/class/net) - - for netdev in $new; do - for check in $old; do - [ $netdev == $check ] && break - done - - if [ $netdev != $check ]; then - echo $netdev - break - fi - done -} - function check { local code=$1 local str=$2 @@ -65,5 +48,6 @@ function make_netdev { fi echo $NSIM_ID > /sys/bus/netdevsim/new_device - echo `get_netdev_name old_netdevs` + # get new device name + echo $(ls /sys/bus/netdevsim/devices/netdevsim${NSIM_ID}/net/) } -- 2.28.0