diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 2ee4649c4..a1e1bc2c9 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ fedora autotools build:
     # Current test failures that we ignore for now
     - export CAIRO_TEST_UGLY_HACK_TO_IGNORE_FALLBACK_RESOLUTION=1
     - export CAIRO_TEST_UGLY_HACK_TO_IGNORE_SCRIPT_XCB_HUGE_IMAGE_SHM=1
+    - export CAIRO_TEST_UGLY_HACK_TO_IGNORE_SVG_ARGB32_SELF_COPIES=1
     - export CAIRO_TEST_IGNORE_pdf_argb32=bug-image-compositor,clear-source,clip-operator,clip-text,culled-glyphs,extended-blend,extended-blend-solid,fallback,filter-bilinear-extents,filter-nearest-offset,filter-nearest-transformed,font-matrix-translation,glyph-cache-pressure,halo,halo-transform,inverse-text,large-font,linear-gradient-reflect,mask,operator-alpha-alpha,overlapping-glyphs,paint-with-alpha-clip,partial-clip-text-bottom,partial-clip-text-left,pixman-downscale-fast-95,pixman-downscale-fast-24,pixman-downscale-good-24,pixman-downscale-best-95,pixman-downscale-best-24,pixman-downscale-nearest-95,pixman-downscale-nearest-24,pixman-downscale-bilinear-24,radial-gradient,radial-gradient-mask,radial-gradient-source,radial-gradient-mask-source,radial-gradient-one-stop,record-select-font-face,record1414x-select-font-face,record1414x-text-transform,record2x-select-font-face,record2x-text-transform,record90-select-font-face,recordflip-whole-select-font-face,recordflip-select-font-face,record-replay-extend-repeat,record-replay-extend-reflect,recording-surface-over,recording-surface-extend-repeat,recording-surface-extend-reflect,rectilinear-miter-limit,rectilinear-dash,rectilinear-stroke,rotate-image-surface-paint,rotate-clip-image-surface-paint,select-font-face,self-copy,show-glyphs-advance,show-text-current-point,smask-text,smp-glyph,surface-pattern,surface-pattern-operator,surface-pattern-scale-down,text-glyph-range,text-pattern,text-rotate,text-transform,text-unhinted-metrics,thin-lines,trap-clip,twin,user-font-proxy,user-font-rescale,pthread-same-source,pthread-show-text,ft-show-glyphs-positioning,ft-show-glyphs-table,ft-text-vertical-layout-type1,ft-text-vertical-layout-type3
     - export CAIRO_TEST_IGNORE_pdf_rgb24=bug-image-compositor,clear-source,clip-text,culled-glyphs,extended-blend-alpha-mask,extended-blend-solid,filter-bilinear-extents,filter-nearest-offset,filter-nearest-transformed,font-matrix-translation,glyph-cache-pressure,halo,halo-transform,inverse-text,large-font,linear-gradient-reflect,mask,operator-alpha-alpha,overlapping-glyphs,paint-with-alpha-clip,partial-clip-text-bottom,partial-clip-text-left,pixman-downscale-fast-95,pixman-downscale-fast-24,pixman-downscale-good-24,pixman-downscale-best-95,pixman-downscale-best-24,pixman-downscale-nearest-95,pixman-downscale-nearest-24,pixman-downscale-bilinear-24,radial-gradient,radial-gradient-mask,radial-gradient-source,radial-gradient-mask-source,radial-gradient-one-stop,random-intersections-curves-eo,random-intersections-curves-nz,record-paint-alpha-clip,record-select-font-face,record-text-transform,record1414x-paint-alpha,record1414x-paint-alpha-clip,record1414x-paint-alpha-clip-mask,record1414x-select-font-face,record1414x-text-transform,record2x-paint-alpha-clip-mask,record2x-select-font-face,record2x-text-transform,record90-paint-alpha-clip,record90-paint-alpha-clip-mask,record90-select-font-face,record90-text-transform,recordflip-whole-select-font-face,recordflip-whole-self-intersecting,recordflip-whole-text-transform,recordflip-select-font-face,recordflip-text-transform,record-replay-extend-repeat,record-replay-extend-reflect,recording-surface-over,recording-surface-extend-repeat,rectilinear-miter-limit,rectilinear-dash,rectilinear-stroke,rel-path,rotate-image-surface-paint,rotate-clip-image-surface-paint,select-font-face,self-copy,show-glyphs-advance,show-text-current-point,smask-text,smp-glyph,surface-pattern,surface-pattern-scale-down,text-glyph-range,text-pattern,text-rotate,text-transform,text-unhinted-metrics,trap-clip,twin,user-font-proxy,user-font-rescale,pthread-same-source,pthread-show-text,ft-show-glyphs-positioning,ft-show-glyphs-table,ft-text-vertical-layout-type1,ft-text-vertical-layout-type3
     - export CAIRO_TEST_IGNORE_script_argb32=xcb-huge-image-shm
diff --git a/test/cairo-test-runner.c b/test/cairo-test-runner.c
index c3f12a300..50e944f9c 100644
--- a/test/cairo-test-runner.c
+++ b/test/cairo-test-runner.c
@@ -1024,6 +1024,22 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 				status = CAIRO_TEST_ERROR;
 			    }
 			}
+			if (getenv ("CAIRO_TEST_UGLY_HACK_TO_IGNORE_SVG_ARGB32_SELF_COPIES")) {
+			    if ((strcmp (target->name, "svg11") == 0 || strcmp (target->name, "svg12") == 0) &&
+					target->content == CAIRO_CONTENT_COLOR_ALPHA &&
+					(strcmp (ctx.test_name, "self-copy") == 0 || strcmp (ctx.test_name, "self-copy-overlap") == 0)) {
+				if (status == CAIRO_TEST_CRASHED) {
+				    cairo_test_log (&ctx, "Turning CRASH into XFAIL due to env\n");
+				    fprintf (stderr, "Turning CRASH into XFAIL due to env\n");
+				    runner.num_ignored_via_env++;
+				    status = CAIRO_TEST_XFAILURE;
+				} else {
+				    fprintf (stderr, "Test was expected to crash due to an environment variable, but did not!\n");
+				    fprintf (stderr, "Please remove the hack to ignore self-copy* crashes for the svg backend.\n");
+				    status = CAIRO_TEST_ERROR;
+				}
+			    }
+			}
 			if (getenv ("CAIRO_TEST_UGLY_HACK_TO_IGNORE_SCRIPT_XCB_HUGE_IMAGE_SHM")) {
 			    if (strcmp (target->name, "script") == 0 && strcmp (ctx.test_name, "xcb-huge-image-shm") == 0) {
 				if (status == CAIRO_TEST_FAILURE) {