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

[Sasha Levin]

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