Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:48:14 +0100 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.2 08/30] selftests/bpf: check that modifier resolves after pointer |
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 03:31:42PM +0000, Lorenz Bauer wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 12:53 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > From: Lorenz Bauer <lorenz.bauer@isovalent.com> > > > > [ Upstream commit dfdd608c3b365f0fd49d7e13911ebcde06b9865b ] > > > > Add a regression test that ensures that a VAR pointing at a > > modifier which follows a PTR (or STRUCT or ARRAY) is resolved > > correctly by the datasec validator. > > > > Signed-off-by: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@isovalent.com> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230306112138.155352-3-lmb@isovalent.com > > Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@kernel.org> > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> > > Hi Sasha, > > Can you explain why this patch was selected? I'd prefer to not > backport the test, since it frequently leads to breakage when trying > to build selftests/bpf on stable kernels.
Why would it break? Is that because the test is buggy, or the kernel is buggy?
thanks,
greg k-h
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