diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/diag.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/diag.sh
index 515859a5168b..dd730a35bd12 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/diag.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/diag.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 
+. "$(dirname "${0}")/mptcp_lib.sh"
+
 rndh=$(printf %x $sec)-$(mktemp -u XXXXXX)
 ns="ns1-$rndh"
 ksft_skip=4
@@ -25,6 +27,8 @@ cleanup()
 	ip netns del $ns
 }
 
+mptcp_lib_check_mptcp
+
 ip -Version > /dev/null 2>&1
 if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
 	echo "SKIP: Could not run test without ip tool"