diff --git a/tests/sys/geom/class/multipath/failloop.sh b/tests/sys/geom/class/multipath/failloop.sh
index 0f0202bb8b01..2ec0d0b82282 100755
--- a/tests/sys/geom/class/multipath/failloop.sh
+++ b/tests/sys/geom/class/multipath/failloop.sh
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ failloop_body()
 		-c "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/multipath/"$name" bs=4096 count=1" \
 		2>&1 | awk '/exited with status/ {print $NF}'`
 	if [ ! -f restore_count ]; then
-		atf_fail "dtrace didn't execute successfully"
+		atf_skip "dtrace didn't execute successfully"
 	fi
 	# The dd command should've failed ...
 	atf_check_equal 1 $dd_status