From d5c7d6e491e36a11159211f5236c19a41bed4d8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mahmood Ali <mahmood@hashicorp.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 11:35:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] avoid forwarding leadership checks in tests

The tests only care if a test server recognizes the leader.
---
 testutil/wait.go | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/testutil/wait.go b/testutil/wait.go
index 45e23e6b5..6ab3ea472 100644
--- a/testutil/wait.go
+++ b/testutil/wait.go
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ type rpcFn func(string, interface{}, interface{}) error
 func WaitForLeader(t testing.T, rpc rpcFn) {
 	WaitForResult(func() (bool, error) {
 		args := &structs.GenericRequest{}
+		args.AllowStale = true
 		var leader string
 		err := rpc("Status.Leader", args, &leader)
 		return leader != "", err