diff --git a/private/property_contexts b/private/property_contexts
index 5c3a84c..5d41ebe 100644
--- a/private/property_contexts
+++ b/private/property_contexts
@@ -1119,3 +1119,7 @@
 # SOC related props
 ro.soc.manufacturer u:object_r:soc_prop:s0 exact string
 ro.soc.model        u:object_r:soc_prop:s0 exact string
+
+# set to true when running rollback tests to disable fallback-to-copy when enabling rollbacks
+# to detect failures where hard linking should work otherwise
+persist.rollback.is_test u:object_r:rollback_test_prop:s0 exact bool