ACK/cmnt: [SRU B/D/E/F/U 0/1] Fix seccomp_bpf on powerpc

[Juerg Haefliger]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 14:06:06 -0300
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com> wrote:

> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1885757
> 
> The patch has just been submitted upstream, still pending review.
> 
> [Impact]
> seccomp_bpf test fails on powerpc and ends up being disabled on some series, or
> causing engineers to waste their time verifying the same failures are the only
> ones we see every kernel release.
> 
> [Test case]
> Run the test and notice there are no more failures.
> 
> [Regression potential]
> We may break the test on different architectures. That doesn't break users,
> though, as the changes are only on tests. It has been tested at least on
> ppc64el and amd64.
> 
> Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo (1):
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: selftests/seccomp: fix ptrace tests on powerpc
> 
>  tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c | 24 +++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)


This code makes my head spin but given the description it seems to make sense.
Any particular reason why this wasn't tested on more architectures?

It's 'only' selftests, so:

Acked-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh at canonical.com>
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