On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 03:36:42PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 03:29:44PM -0700, Sherry Yang wrote:
5.10.y backported the commit 09bcf9254838 ("selftests/ftrace: Add new test case which checks non unique symbol") which added a new test case to check non-unique symbol. However, 5.10.y didn't backport the kernel commit b022f0c7e404 ("tracing/kprobes: Return EADDRNOTAVAIL when func matches several symbols")to support the functionality from kernel side. Backport it in this patch series.
The first two patches are presiquisites. The 4th commit is a fix commit for the 3rd one.
Should we just revert the selftest test instead? That seems simpler instead of adding a new feature to this old and obsolete kernel tree, right?
Greg, I read the cover letter the same way and asked myself the same question, but looking at the patches it's actually a fix for something that's broken on 5.10 and was just uncovered by the selftest.
I think we should take it.