From 76fd8788cd067805d52a460c31bd736b2a626a3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jacek Galowicz <jacek@galowicz.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:04:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] nixosTests.ipv6: fix regular expression match conditions

---
 nixos/tests/ipv6.nix | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/nixos/tests/ipv6.nix b/nixos/tests/ipv6.nix
index 84c585be0ad4..822dece47722 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/ipv6.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/ipv6.nix
@@ -81,7 +81,11 @@
 
         machine.wait_until_succeeds(f"[ `{cmd} | wc -l` -eq 1 ]")
         output = machine.succeed(cmd)
-        ip = re.search(r"inet6 ([0-9a-f:]{2,})/", output).group(1)
+        matches: re.Match | None = re.search(r"inet6 ([0-9a-f:]{2,})/", output)
+        if matches is None:
+            raise Exception(f"Can't match IP out of output: {output}")
+
+        ip = matches.group(1)
 
         if temporary:
             scope = scope + " temporary"