selftests: forwarding: Add suppport to create veth interfaces
For tests using veth interfaces, the test infrastructure can create
the netdevs if they do not exist. Arguably this is a preferred approach
since the tests require p$N and p$(N+1) to be pairs.
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh
index d0af521..273511e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/lib.sh
@@ -76,6 +76,41 @@
##############################################################################
# Network interfaces configuration
+create_netif_veth()
+{
+ local i
+
+ for i in $(eval echo {1..$NUM_NETIFS}); do
+ local j=$((i+1))
+
+ ip link show dev ${NETIFS[p$i]} &> /dev/null
+ if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
+ ip link add ${NETIFS[p$i]} type veth \
+ peer name ${NETIFS[p$j]}
+ if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
+ echo "Failed to create netif"
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ fi
+ i=$j
+ done
+}
+
+create_netif()
+{
+ case "$NETIF_TYPE" in
+ veth) create_netif_veth
+ ;;
+ *) echo "Can not create interfaces of type \'$NETIF_TYPE\'"
+ exit 1
+ ;;
+ esac
+}
+
+if [[ "$NETIF_CREATE" = "yes" ]]; then
+ create_netif
+fi
+
for i in $(eval echo {1..$NUM_NETIFS}); do
ip link show dev ${NETIFS[p$i]} &> /dev/null
if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then