netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v11 2/5] selftests/bpf: Use random netns name for mptcp

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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 14:40:44 +0800
From: Geliang Tang <geliang.tang@...e.com>
To: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
	Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>, Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
	Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v11 2/5] selftests/bpf: Use random netns name
 for mptcp

On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 05:23:32PM -0700, Martin KaFai Lau wrote:
> On 8/3/23 10:07 PM, Geliang Tang wrote:
> > Use rand() to generate a random netns name instead of using the fixed
> > name "mptcp_ns" for every test.
> > 
> > By doing that, we can re-launch the test even if there was an issue
> > removing the previous netns or if by accident, a netns with this generic
> > name already existed on the system.
> > 
> > Note that using a different name each will also help adding more
> > subtests in future commits.

Hi Martin,

I tried to run mptcp tests simultaneously, and got "Cannot create
namespace file "/var/run/netns/mptcp_ns": File exists" errors sometimes.
So I add this patch to fix it.

It's easy to reproduce, just run this commands in multiple terminals:
 > for i in `seq 1 100`; do sudo ./test_progs -t mptcp; done

> 
> I run test_progs repeatedly without rebooting qemu to save time. If there is
> a test did not clean up its netns, I would rather uncover it earlier and fix
> it instead. Randomizing the name is hiding the issue and does not help to
> uncover the broken test sooner. Although this change is to mptcp test alone,
> this could be referred in other future tests.

I added "ip netns show" after "ip netns del" in v12 to check if there is
a test did not clean up its netns.

Thanks,
-Geliang

> 
> afaik, I don't remember bpf CI ever run into a test failure because the
> picked name had already been used by the system. It seems you ran into this
> issue a lot with the mptcp test in your setup. Could you explain a little
> more?