[PATCH] test/bpf: remove validation tests from CI

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri Jul 3 16:12:44 CEST 2026


On Fri, 3 Jul 2026 08:48:33 +0000
Marat Khalili <marat.khalili at huawei.com> wrote:

> > The new tests for BPF validation are triggering a strange issue
> > in GitHub Action: the last tests are killed by signal 7 SIGBUS.
> > 
> > The series fixing a lot of BPF issues was merged
> > but the related test has to be removed from the fast tests suite
> > which runs in some CI jobs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>  
> 
> I think I know the issue, it's tmpfs exhaustion. After some recent changes each
> test consumes 25MB in the --file-prefix directory independently, easily driving
> small VMs out of space. My ~30 new tests were the last drop for the CI.
> 
> I will try to prepare a fix today, of course please do everything that's
> needed for the CI stability meanwhile.

The BPF tests should be using unit_test_suite_runner instead of separate tests.
That would help.


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