netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next 3/4] bpf: Remove kfunc support in prologue and epilogue

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Message-ID: <87h5sfthoj.fsf@cloudflare.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:54:04 +0100
From: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@...udflare.com>
To: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@...il.com>
Cc: bpf@...r.kernel.org,  Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,  Daniel
 Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,  John Fastabend
 <john.fastabend@...il.com>,  Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,  Martin
 KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>,  Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,  Yonghong
 Song <yonghong.song@...ux.dev>,  KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,  Stanislav
 Fomichev <sdf@...ichev.me>,  Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>,  Jiri Olsa
 <jolsa@...nel.org>,  Amery Hung <ameryhung@...il.com>,
  netdev@...r.kernel.org,  kernel-team@...udflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 3/4] bpf: Remove kfunc support in prologue and
 epilogue

On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 02:55 PM -08, Eduard Zingerman wrote:
> I think that patches #3 and #4 have to be swapped, otherwise there is
> a selftest failure when only patches #1-3 are applied:
>
>   #281/17  pro_epilogue/syscall_pro_epilogue:FAIL
>
> If we want to keep selftests passing for arbitrary bisects.

I don't have an opinion. I assumed it'd get applied as a batch without
fast forward, so bisect would be going over merge commits.