passt/test, branch 2026_01_17.81c97f6

test: Include sshd-auth in mbuto guest image

2026-01-10T18:27:47+00:00

OpenSSH has split itself into several binaries for greater security.  We
already have logic to make sure we include the sshd-session binary.
OpenSSH 10 has added another: sshd-auth which we also need for a working
sshd within the guest.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson 
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier 
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio

test: Handle Operating System Command escapes in terminal output

2026-01-10T18:27:47+00:00

Our "old style" test script stuff uses raw terminal output scraped from
tmux.  This might include terminal escape sequences from the shell, or
whatever we run in it: they think they're talking to a terminal emulator
not a script, and they're not entirely incorrect.

In several places we filter out ANSI ESC-[ sequences to make this work.
However, this doesn't include ESC-] "Operating System Command" sequences.
Something I've updated in Fedora 43 generates heaps of these, which break
everything.

Add more hairy regexps to filter these out as well.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson 
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier 
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio

test: Update Makefile to avoid failing on missing images

2025-12-08T00:32:51+00:00

The image links may become invalid over time, so ignore download
errors to prevent 'make assets' from failing.

Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=150
Suggested-by: Stefano Brivio 
Signed-off-by: Yumei Huang 
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio

test: Expand tmux right status bar to fit pass/fail/skipped counter and time

2025-12-07T22:17:59+00:00

I recently realised I couldn't see seconds elapsing in asciinema test
recordings. That's because now that we display a SKIPPED counter, we
need some extra room for characters, 64 in total:

  PASS: xxx | FAIL: xxx | SKIPPED: xxx | YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss+00:00

Fixes: 4234ace84cdf ("test: Display count of skipped tests in status and summary")
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio 
Reviewed-by: David Gibson

test: Fix IPv6 address/prefix mismatch error

2025-11-27T21:20:18+00:00

For IPv6 addresses within the same scope group, Linux kernel preserves
insertion order, where the first inserted address appears last. As a
result, the ordering inside pasta differs from the host, causing a few
tests to fail when they compare only the first address on each side.
Fix this by checking that the guest’s first address matches any of the
host’s addresses.

Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=175
Signed-off-by: Yumei Huang 
Reviewed-by: David Gibson 
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio

test: Fix the escaping issue in memory/passt test

2025-10-27T22:02:54+00:00

Test memory/passt failed with error "objsize: No such file or
directory" because of an escaping issue. Fix it.

Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=155
Signed-off-by: Yumei Huang 
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio

test: Update the threshold value for some perf tests

2025-10-15T21:16:38+00:00

The values are adjusted to better match results observerd on the
test hardware with 56-core Xeon Gold 6330 CPU and 126 GB RAM.

Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=156
Signed-off-by: Yumei Huang 
Reviewed-by: David Gibson 
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio

test: For missing static checkers, skip rather than failing tests

2025-10-15T21:16:38+00:00

We run a bunch of static checkers as part of our testsuite.  That's useful,
but it means that if a user doesn't have one of them installed, it fails
the entire testsuite.  Alter our scripts to skip the test, rather than
failing outright if the checker tool is not installed.

This requires exeter v0.4.4 or later.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson 
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio

test: Add some missing quoting in exeter runner

2025-10-15T21:16:38+00:00

exeter() quoted ${__testid}, but in some places we use it there's an
extra level of shell, which needs another layer of quoting.  This breaks
if testids include ';', which is quite common in exeter tests created as
a composition/pipeline of two functions.  Add the required extra quoting.

While we're there, improve consistency with other scripts by always using
the optional {} around variable names.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson 
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio

test: Use ${} consistently in lib/exeter

2025-10-15T21:16:38+00:00

Most of the test shell scripts use {} around variable names even when it's
not required, for consistency.  lib/exeter didn't do so consistently,
however.  Correct that.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson 
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio