APPLIED: [PATCH disco 0/3] Fix bfp test_verifier

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Fri Feb 1 22:27:37 UTC 2019


On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 05:42:14PM -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> The upstream stable release process allow fixes to the bpf verifier without
> requiring that the bpf test_verifier selftest still PASS.
> 
> That is very unfortunate to our testing process, as we want to make sure we
> don't introduce regressions ourselves.
> 
> Instead of blindly accepting any failures, I took the path of looking at the
> test changes upstream. Clean cherry picks were not always possible, so, in some
> cases, I decided to go failure by failure, and fixing up the test with a change
> that was already present upstream.
> 
> That will make cherry picks even harder in the future, but that's the cost of
> maintaining something upstream doesn't care about.

Applied, thanks!



More information about the kernel-team mailing list