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+// REQUIRES: linux, gpu, level_zero
+
+// Check that invalid ZE_AFFINITY_MASK values do not crash the loader.
+
+// RUN: not not --crash %{run-unfiltered-devices} env ZE_AFFINITY_MASK=a sycl-ls
+// RUN: not not --crash %{run-unfiltered-devices} env ZE_AFFINITY_MASK= sycl-ls