[LTP] [PATCH] userfaultfd05: handle kernels rejecting WP feature in UFFDIO_API
Li Wang
liwang@redhat.com
Fri Jan 23 06:40:56 CET 2026
Commit 485a4cd2ba3 ("userfaultfd05: allow TCONF when UFFD-WP is unsupported")
added a TCONF path for missing UFFD-WP, but it relied on checking
uffdio_api.features after a failed ioctl (on RHEL-10).
That is not sufficient: it did not handle the case where UFFDIO_API
succeeds but the kernel does not advertise UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP
in the returned features mask.
So userfaultfd05 still fails on RHEL-9 s390x platform:
userfaultfd05.c:106: TBROK: ioctl(3,((((2U|1U) << (((0+8)+8)+14)) |
(((0xAA)) << (0+8)) | ((((0x00))) << 0) |
((((sizeof(struct uffdio_register)))) << ((0+8)+8)))),...)
failed: EINVAL (22)
Now, let's handle both behaviours by retrying UFFDIO_API with features=0
on EINVAL and treating a successful retry as "WP unsupported" (TCONF).
Also check the returned features mask after a successful UFFDIO_API and
skip when WP is not advertised.
And preserve the original errno so real UFFDIO_API failures are still
reported as 'TBROK | TERRNO'.
Follow-up: 485a4cd2ba3 ("userfaultfd05: allow TCONF when UFFD-WP is unsupported")
Signed-off-by: Li Wang <liwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Ricardo Branco <rbranco@suse.com>
---
.../kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd05.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd05.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd05.c
index 6cae45f20..4158b7b46 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd05.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd05.c
@@ -92,13 +92,24 @@ static void run(void)
uffdio_api.api = UFFD_API;
uffdio_api.features = UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP;
+
if (ioctl(uffd, UFFDIO_API, &uffdio_api) < 0) {
- if (!(uffdio_api.features & UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP))
- tst_brk(TCONF, "UFFD write-protect unsupported");
+ int err = errno;
+ if (err == EINVAL) {
+ uffdio_api.api = UFFD_API;
+ uffdio_api.features = 0;
+
+ if (ioctl(uffd, UFFDIO_API, &uffdio_api) == 0)
+ tst_brk(TCONF, "UFFD write-protect unsupported");
+ }
- tst_brk(TBROK | TERRNO, "ioctl() on userfaultfd failed");
+ errno = err;
+ tst_brk(TBROK | TERRNO, "ioctl(UFFDIO_API) failed");
}
+ if (!(uffdio_api.features & UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP))
+ tst_brk(TCONF, "UFFD write-protect unsupported");
+
uffdio_register.range.start = (unsigned long) page;
uffdio_register.range.len = page_size;
uffdio_register.mode = UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_WP;
--
2.52.0
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