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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
	Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>,
	John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
	KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] BPF kernel selftests failed in the LTS stable kernel 4.19.x
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 06:24:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YK8e+iLPjkmuO793@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2988ff60-2d79-b066-6c02-16e5fe8b69db@loongson.cn>

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 10:27:51AM +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> When update the following LTS stable kernel 4.19.x,
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.19.y
> 
> and then run BPF selftests according to
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.html#q-how-to-run-bpf-selftests
> 
> $ cd tools/testing/selftests/bpf/
> $ make
> $ sudo ./test_verifier
> $ sudo make run_tests
> 
> there exists many failures include verifier tests and run_tests,
> (1) is it necessary to make sure that there are no any failures in the LTS
> stable kernel 4.19.x?

Yes, it would be nice if that did not happen.

> (2) if yes, how to fix these failures in the LTS stable kernel 4.19.x?

Can you find the offending commits by using `git bisect` and find the
upstream commits that resolve this and let us know so we can backport
them?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-27  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-27  2:27 [QUESTION] BPF kernel selftests failed in the LTS stable kernel 4.19.x Tiezhu Yang
2021-05-27  4:24 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2021-05-27  8:18   ` Tiezhu Yang
2021-05-27  8:37     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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