As mentioned in #26571, the task running the USDT interface tests
fail when run in docker. cc7335edc8
in #25528 added that the tests are run in a **VM** in Cirrus CI.
Running them locally in docker containers might not work:
- We use [bcc] as tracing toolkit which requires the kernel headers
to compile the BPF bytecode. As docker containers use the hosts
kernel and don't run their own, there is a potential for mismatches
between kernel headers available in the container and the host
kernel. This results in a failure loading the BPF byte code.
- Privilges are required to load the BPF byte code into the kernel.
Normally, the docker containers aren't run with these.
- We currently use an untrusted third-party PPA to install the
bpfcc-tools package on Ubuntu 22.04. Using this on a local dev
system could be a security risk.
To not hinder the ASan + LSan + UBSan part of the CI task, the USDT
tests are disabled on non-CirrusCI runs.
[bcc]: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
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