netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 10/12] selftests/vsock: avoid false-positives when checking dmesg

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Message-ID: <aQJIInvGb7a8_i8p@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:00:18 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@...il.com>
Cc: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, virtualization@...ts.linux.dev,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@...a.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 10/12] selftests/vsock: avoid false-positives
 when checking dmesg

On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 06:00:14PM -0700, Bobby Eshleman wrote:
> From: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@...a.com>
> 
> Sometimes VMs will have some intermittent dmesg warnings that are
> unrelated to vsock. Change the dmesg parsing to filter on strings
> containing 'vsock' to avoid false positive failures that are unrelated
> to vsock. The downside is that it is possible for some vsock related
> warnings to not contain the substring 'vsock', so those will be missed.
> 
> Fixes: a4a65c6fe08b ("selftests/vsock: add initial vmtest.sh for vsock")
> Signed-off-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@...a.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>