# Re: \[PATCH net-next v8 16/16\] selftests/net: Add netkit container tests

- From: Jakub Kicinski \<kuba@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2026-02-01 00:24:29 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2026/02/7942267
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2026/01/7942161/t.md

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:28:30 +0100 Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> Add two tests using NetDrvContEnv. One basic test that sets up a netkit
> pair, with one end in a netns. Use LOCAL_PREFIX_V6 and nk_forward BPF
> program to ping from a remote host to the netkit in netns.
> 
> Second is a selftest for netkit queue leasing, using io_uring zero copy
> test binary inside of a netns with netkit. This checks that memory
> providers can be bound against virtual queues in a netkit within a
> netns that are leasing from a physical netdev in the default netns.

We should cover the uAPI and the tricky part of the handling please.

So off the top of my head main bits:
 - the expected attributes on lessor and lessee via Netlink
 - destroying the netkit with MP attached
   - checking the state via YNL,
   - attaching MP from the main dev to make sure we didn't leave
     anything behind
 - destroying phys dev while netkit exists (prolly netdevsim :S)
 - making sure XDP can't be attached on phys dev when MP is installed
   via netkit

... whatever else you found to be tricky in the implementation.
```