Re: [PATCH 6.18 000/314] 6.18.17-rc1 review

Sasha Levin
2026-03-12T10:06:50Z

On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 02:35:11PM +0800, Shung-Hsi Yu wrote:
>Hi Sasha,
>
>On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 07:19:29AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.17 release.
>> There are 314 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>> to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>> let me know.
>
>BPF selftest is failing due to backported commit efc11a667878 ("bpf:
>Improve bounds when tnum has a single possible value"). The fix is
>commit 024cea2d647e ("selftests/bpf: Avoid simplification of crafted
>bounds test"). Can you pick that up for both 6.18 and 6.19?

Will do.

>FWIW this failure does not point to actual issue of the codebase, just
>that the selftest's expectation not aligning with the kernel.

Great!

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Thanks,
Sasha