[PATCH] net: lwip: ping: set net_try_count to 1

Jerome Forissier jerome.forissier at linaro.org
Mon Aug 4 14:51:01 CEST 2025


The legacy network stack sets net_try_count to 1 at the beginning of the
net_loop() function. This is required for net_start_again() to work
properly. Therefore, set the variable accordingly in the do_ping()
function when NET_LWIP=y. This fixes an issue where a ping to an
unreachable destination would run twice on the same network device. For
example with qemu_arm64_lwip_defconfig:

 => dhcp
 DHCP client bound to address 10.0.2.15 (3 ms)
 => ping 10.0.0.1
 Using virtio-net#32 device
 ping failed; host 10.0.0.1 is not alive
 Using virtio-net#32 device
 ping failed; host 10.0.0.1 is not alive
 => QEMU: Terminated

Signed-off-by: Jerome Forissier <jerome.forissier at linaro.org>
---

 cmd/lwip/ping.c     | 1 +
 include/net-lwip.h  | 2 ++
 net/lwip/net-lwip.c | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cmd/lwip/ping.c b/cmd/lwip/ping.c
index 87f8e958e48..6d090fc530d 100644
--- a/cmd/lwip/ping.c
+++ b/cmd/lwip/ping.c
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ int do_ping(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *const argv[])
 	if (net_lwip_dns_resolve(argv[1], &addr))
 		return CMD_RET_USAGE;
 
+	net_try_count = 1;
 restart:
 	if (net_lwip_eth_start() < 0 || ping_loop(eth_get_dev(), &addr) < 0) {
 		if (net_start_again() == 0)
diff --git a/include/net-lwip.h b/include/net-lwip.h
index f54f23471f1..e88e2186635 100644
--- a/include/net-lwip.h
+++ b/include/net-lwip.h
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ extern size_t cacert_size;
 extern enum auth_mode cacert_auth_mode;
 extern bool cacert_initialized;
 
+extern int net_try_count;
+
 int set_cacert_builtin(void);
 
 enum proto_t {
diff --git a/net/lwip/net-lwip.c b/net/lwip/net-lwip.c
index 660ceb10cbe..fda14539455 100644
--- a/net/lwip/net-lwip.c
+++ b/net/lwip/net-lwip.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 #if defined(CONFIG_API) || defined(CONFIG_EFI_LOADER)
 void (*push_packet)(void *, int len) = 0;
 #endif
-static int net_try_count;
+int net_try_count;
 static int net_restarted;
 int net_restart_wrap;
 static uchar net_pkt_buf[(PKTBUFSRX) * PKTSIZE_ALIGN + PKTALIGN];
-- 
2.43.0

base-commit: ae5711f881100f856ead1e76832c32b92dba93c7
branch: lwip-net_try_count


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