netdev - Re: [patch net] selftests: forwarding: fix race between packet receive and tc check

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Message-Id: <20191130.122412.738209563027806422.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sat, 30 Nov 2019 12:24:12 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net] selftests: forwarding: fix race between packet
 receive and tc check

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 13:38:57 +0100

> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> 
> It is possible that tc stats get checked before the packet we check for
> actually arrived into the interface and accounted for.
> Fix it by checking for the expected result in a loop until
> timeout is reached (by default 1 second).
> 
> Fixes: 07e5c75184a1 ("selftests: forwarding: Introduce tc flower matching tests")
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Jiri.