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Date:   Tue,  2 Jan 2018 08:28:38 +0100
From:   Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@...onical.com>
To:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Luca Boccassi <bluca@...ian.org>,
        Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] tests: make sure rand_dev suffix has 6 chars

The change to limit the read size from /dev/urandom is a tradeoff.
Reading too much can trigger an issue, but so it could if the
suggested 250 random chars would not contain enough [:alpha:] chars.
If they contain:
 a) >=6 all is ok
 b) [1-5] the devname would be shorter than expected (non fatal).
 c) 0 things would break

In loops of hundreds of thousands it always was (a) for my, but since
if occuring in a test it might be hard to track what happened avoid
this issue by retrying on the length condition.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@...onical.com>
---
 testsuite/lib/generic.sh | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/testsuite/lib/generic.sh b/testsuite/lib/generic.sh
index 3645ff5..8cef20f 100644
--- a/testsuite/lib/generic.sh
+++ b/testsuite/lib/generic.sh
@@ -87,7 +87,11 @@ ts_qdisc_available()
 
 rand_dev()
 {
-    echo "dev-$(head -c 250 /dev/urandom | tr -dc '[:alpha:]' | head -c 6)"
+    rnd=""
+    while [ ${#rnd} -ne 6 ]; do
+        rnd="$(head -c 250 /dev/urandom | tr -dc '[:alpha:]' | head -c 6)"
+    done
+    echo "dev-$rnd"
 }
 
 pr_failed()
-- 
2.7.4

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