Comment 7 for bug 1829812

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Stefan Bader (smb) wrote :

That will be affecting all the 5.0 based kernels as the commit

commit cf651d7007c17bf1bb23fa3a2cb5d1dd2e301c65
Author: Stanislav Fomichev <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Jan 28 09:21:16 2019 -0800

    selftests/bpf: skip verifier tests for unsupported program types

in upstream stable v5.0.7. It would require

commit 1bf4b05810fe38c5f09973295e8d4234a4fd5d87
Author: Quentin Monnet <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Jan 17 15:27:53 2019 +0000

    tools: bpftool: add probes for eBPF program types

backported (not tried yet how hard that is) which has not been done upstream stable (at least not up to v5.0.15). Likely nobody tried yet.

Unless we have something else that makes a re-spin a must, I would hesitate to initiate a full round for the test being broken. Do we have a way to work around this? And we should work on the resolution (either additional backport or revert) to be included in the next cycle.