[PATCH mptcp-next 1/2] selftests: mptcp: run fail_test in main shell during join test

From: Gang Yan <[email protected]>

check_transfer() compares the input and output files byte-by-byte using
`cmp -l "$in" "$out" | while read ...`. Because the while-loop body runs
in a subshell (the script sets neither lastpipe nor pipefail), the
fail_test call inside it -- which sets the global ret/last_test_failed --
and the `return 1` both act on the subshell, not on check_transfer().
check_transfer() thus always falls through to `return 0`, and any data
corruption affecting only the payload (leaving the subflow/PM counters
untouched) is silently reported as PASS.

Assisted-by: Codex: GLM-5.2
Signed-off-by: Gang Yan <[email protected]>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_join.sh | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_join.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_join.sh
index 550a6b6117a9..2413c832af03 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_join.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_join.sh
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ check_transfer()
 		mv "$tmpfile" "$out"
 		tmpfile=""
 	fi
-	cmp -l "$in" "$out" | while read -r i a b; do
+	while read -r i a b; do
 		local sum=$((0${a} + 0${b}))
 		if [ $check_invert -eq 0 ] || [ $sum -ne $((0xff)) ]; then
 			fail_test "$what does not match (in, out):"
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ check_transfer()
 		else
 			print_info "$what has inverted byte at ${i}"
 		fi
-	done
+	done < <(cmp -l "$in" "$out")
 
 	return 0
 }
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