Jakub reported increased flakiness in bond_macvlan_ipvlan.sh on regular kernel, while the tests consistently pass on a debug kernel. This suggests a timing-sensitive issue.

To mitigate this, introduce a short sleep before each xvlan_over_bond connectivity check. The delay helps ensure neighbor and route cache have fully converged before verifying connectivity.

The sleep interval is kept minimal since check_connection() is invoked nearly 100 times during the test.

Fixes: 246af950b940 ("selftests: bonding: add macvlan over bond testing") Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20251114082014.750edfad@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu liuhangbin@gmail.com --- .../testing/selftests/drivers/net/bonding/bond_macvlan_ipvlan.sh | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/bonding/bond_macvlan_ipvlan.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/bonding/bond_macvlan_ipvlan.sh index c4711272fe45..559f300f965a 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/bonding/bond_macvlan_ipvlan.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/bonding/bond_macvlan_ipvlan.sh @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ check_connection() local message=${3} RET=0

+ sleep 0.25 ip netns exec ${ns} ping ${target} -c 4 -i 0.1 &>/dev/null check_err $? "ping failed" log_test "${bond_mode}/${xvlan_type}_${xvlan_mode}: ${message}"