diff -u b/core/modules/dblog/src/Tests/Views/ViewsIntegrationTest.php b/core/modules/dblog/src/Tests/Views/ViewsIntegrationTest.php
--- b/core/modules/dblog/src/Tests/Views/ViewsIntegrationTest.php
+++ b/core/modules/dblog/src/Tests/Views/ViewsIntegrationTest.php
@@ -72,12 +72,13 @@
     // Setup a watchdog entry with two tokens.
     $entries[] = array(
       'message' => '@token1 !token2',
-      // Setup a link with a tag which is filtered by
+      // Creates a link with a unsafe content which we wrongly mark as safe with
+      // SafeMarkup::set() to verify that it is later filtered and made safe by
       // \Drupal\Component\Utility\Xss::filterAdmin().
       'variables' => array(
         '@token1' => $this->randomMachineName(),
         '!token2' => $this->randomMachineName(),
-        'link' => \Drupal::l(SafeMarkup::format('<object>Link</object>'), new Url('<front>')),
+        'link' => \Drupal::l(SafeMarkup::set('<object>Link</object>'), new Url('<front>')),
       ),
     );
     $logger_factory = $this->container->get('logger.factory');