netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2 2/2] selftests: pmtu: add explicit tests for PMTU exceptions cleanup

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Date:   Mon, 25 Feb 2019 13:33:30 +0100
From:   Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 2/2] selftests: pmtu: add explicit tests for PMTU
 exceptions cleanup

2019-02-25, 12:13:46 +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> +	if ! timeout 1 ${ns_a} ip link del dev veth_A-R1; then

That doesn't work. "ip link del" is stuck in a way that timeout can't
terminate it, so this is still going to hang. Did you actually test
this? :/

> +		err "  can't delete veth device in a timely manner, PMTU dst likely leaked"
> +		return 1
> +	fi
> +	return 0
> +}

-- 
Sabrina