[LTP] [PATCH v2] userfaultfd: Use two-step handshake to probe features
Ricardo Branco
rbranco@suse.de
Wed Apr 15 10:06:15 CEST 2026
userfaultfd05 and userfaultfd06 assume that
UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP and UFFD_FEATURE_POISON are available
when setting up userfaultfd.
On kernels where either feature is unavailable at runtime,
UFFDIO_API fails with EINVAL and the tests end up as TBROK instead of
being skipped.
Fix this by using the required two-step handshake and skip with TCONF
if the required feature bit is absent.
Fixes: 1840ee23d172b5ab04cca7c2acfa48755b041911
Link: https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/issues/1289
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Branco <rbranco@suse.de>
---
.../kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd05.c | 12 +++++++++++-
.../kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd06.c | 15 +++++++++++----
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd05.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd05.c
index e25a227cf..e6386ce76 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd05.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd05.c
@@ -82,10 +82,20 @@ static void *handle_thread(void)
static void run(void)
{
pthread_t thr;
- struct uffdio_api uffdio_api;
+ struct uffdio_api uffdio_api = {};
struct uffdio_register uffdio_register;
struct uffdio_writeprotect uffdio_writeprotect;
+ /*
+ * Two-step handshake to check if feature is available
+ */
+ uffd = SAFE_USERFAULTFD(O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK, false);
+ uffdio_api.api = UFFD_API;
+ SAFE_IOCTL(uffd, UFFDIO_API, &uffdio_api);
+ if (!(uffdio_api.features & UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP))
+ tst_brk(TCONF, "UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP not supported");
+ SAFE_CLOSE(uffd);
+
set_pages();
uffd = SAFE_USERFAULTFD(O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK, false);
diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd06.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd06.c
index 5b1252c35..e1b3c2f6f 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd06.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd06.c
@@ -97,18 +97,25 @@ static void run(void)
poison_fault_seen = 0;
sigbus_seen = 0;
- set_pages();
+ /*
+ * Two-step handshake to check if feature is available
+ */
uffd = SAFE_USERFAULTFD(O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK, false);
+ uffdio_api.api = UFFD_API;
+ SAFE_IOCTL(uffd, UFFDIO_API, &uffdio_api);
+ if (!(uffdio_api.features & UFFD_FEATURE_POISON))
+ tst_brk(TCONF, "UFFD_FEATURE_POISON not supported");
+ SAFE_CLOSE(uffd);
+ set_pages();
+
+ uffd = SAFE_USERFAULTFD(O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK, false);
uffdio_api.api = UFFD_API;
uffdio_api.features = UFFD_FEATURE_POISON;
SAFE_IOCTL(uffd, UFFDIO_API, &uffdio_api);
- if (!(uffdio_api.features & UFFD_FEATURE_POISON))
- tst_brk(TCONF, "UFFD_FEATURE_POISON not supported");
-
uffdio_register.range.start = (unsigned long) page;
uffdio_register.range.len = page_size;
uffdio_register.mode = UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING;
--
2.53.0
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