[LTP] [PATCH v1 23/31] testcases: sysfs: Add sys_net04
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
Wed Aug 19 17:40:39 CEST 2026
Hi!
> Here I got intermittent fails in local test:
>
> sys_net_common.h:32: TFAIL: st->operstate (up) != operstate (down)
>
> The possible reason is kernel asynchronous update race condition.
> The test reads operstate immediately after closing the FD, catching
> the stale "up" state before the kernel's background workqueue has
> time to update it to "down".
Looks like this was pointed out by the ltp-reviewer as well.
> Maybe we can add a polling mechanism with a timeout to wait for
> the operstate to transition.
Will do in v2.
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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
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