[PATCH] tools/testing/selftests: fix guard region test tmpfs assumption
From: Lorenzo Stoakes
Date: Fri Apr 25 2025 - 12:26:32 EST
The current implementation of the guard region tests assume that /tmp is
mounted as tmpfs, that is shmem.
This isn't always the case, and at least one instance of a spurious test
failure has been reported as a result.
This assumption is unsafe, rushed and silly - and easily remedied by simply
using memfd, so do so.
We also have to fixup the readonly_file test to explicitly only be
applicable to file-backed cases.
Reported-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/a2d2766b-0ab4-437b-951a-8595a7506fe9@xxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/guard-regions.c | 16 ++++++++++------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/guard-regions.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/guard-regions.c
index c39dd26c47a3..0cd9d236649d 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/guard-regions.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/guard-regions.c
@@ -272,12 +272,16 @@ FIXTURE_SETUP(guard_regions)
self->page_size = (unsigned long)sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
setup_sighandler();
- if (variant->backing == ANON_BACKED)
+ switch (variant->backing) {
+ case ANON_BACKED:
return;
-
- self->fd = open_file(
- variant->backing == SHMEM_BACKED ? "/tmp/" : "",
- self->path);
+ case LOCAL_FILE_BACKED:
+ self->fd = open_file("", self->path);
+ break;
+ case SHMEM_BACKED:
+ self->fd = memfd_create(self->path, 0);
+ break;
+ }
/* We truncate file to at least 100 pages, tests can modify as needed. */
ASSERT_EQ(ftruncate(self->fd, 100 * self->page_size), 0);
@@ -1697,7 +1701,7 @@ TEST_F(guard_regions, readonly_file)
char *ptr;
int i;
- if (variant->backing == ANON_BACKED)
+ if (variant->backing != LOCAL_FILE_BACKED)
SKIP(return, "Read-only test specific to file-backed");
/* Map shared so we can populate with pattern, populate it, unmap. */
--
2.49.0