Message ID | 20190201194217.20152-1-cascardo@canonical.com |
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Headers | show |
Series | Fix bfp test_verifier | expand |
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!