diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_sockopt.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_sockopt.sh
index 80d36f7cfee8..08d8533c98c4 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_sockopt.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/mptcp_sockopt.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 
+. "$(dirname "${0}")/mptcp_lib.sh"
+
 ret=0
 sin=""
 sout=""
@@ -81,6 +83,8 @@ cleanup()
 	rm -f "$sin" "$sout"
 }
 
+mptcp_lib_check_mptcp
+
 ip -Version > /dev/null 2>&1
 if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
 	echo "SKIP: Could not run test without ip tool"