Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.2 226/249] selftests: bpf: fix inlines in test_lwt_seg6local

From: Sasha Levin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:32:56 -0400

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 09:36:54AM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 19:47:57 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> It fixes a bug, right?
>
>A bug in selftests. And quite likely, it probably happens only with
>some compiler versions.
>
>I don't think patches only touching tools/testing/selftests/ qualify
>for stable in general. They don't affect the end users.

I'd argue that a bug in your tests is just as (if not even more) worse
than a bug in the code.

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Thanks,
Sasha