smoketest: loopback: interface can not be deleted, it must always exist

Commit 35b049aa ("smoketest: interfaces: verify deletion of interfaces")
validated that when the test completed (tearDown()) there must be no
interfaces left registered for the tests. This is invalid for the loopback
interface as it can not be deleted from the system.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/smoketest/scripts/cli/test_interfaces_loopback.py b/smoketest/scripts/cli/test_interfaces_loopback.py
index 79225a1bd..e3538fc59 100755
--- a/smoketest/scripts/cli/test_interfaces_loopback.py
+++ b/smoketest/scripts/cli/test_interfaces_loopback.py
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 import unittest
 
 from base_interfaces_test import BasicInterfaceTest
+from netifaces import interfaces
+
 from vyos.validate import is_intf_addr_assigned
 
 class LoopbackInterfaceTest(BasicInterfaceTest.BaseTest):
@@ -27,6 +29,15 @@ class LoopbackInterfaceTest(BasicInterfaceTest.BaseTest):
          self._base_path = ['interfaces', 'loopback']
          self._interfaces = ['lo']
 
+    def tearDown(self):
+        self.session.delete(self._base_path)
+        self.session.commit()
+        del self.session
+
+        # loopback interface must persist!
+        for intf in self._interfaces:
+            self.assertTrue(intf in interfaces())
+
     def test_add_single_ip_address(self):
         super().test_add_single_ip_address()
         for addr in self._loopback_addresses: