[LTP] [PATCH] sendfile09: skip on native 32-bit kernels

Avinesh Kumar avinesh.kumar@suse.com
Tue Jun 23 18:31:43 CEST 2026


this test is already documented as 64-bit only, but
.skip_in_compat only covers 32-bit-on-64-bit. On a native 32-bit
kernel (e.g. i586) it still runs and setup's write() past 2GB fails
with EFBIG (TBROK).

sendfile09.c:49: TBROK: write(3,0x4a8011,1) failed: EFBIG (27)

TCONF on 32-bit kernels via tst_kernel_bits().

Signed-off-by: Avinesh Kumar <avinesh.kumar@suse.com>
---
 testcases/kernel/syscalls/sendfile/sendfile09.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/sendfile/sendfile09.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/sendfile/sendfile09.c
index 82feaeba0..50b9c1ca7 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/sendfile/sendfile09.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/sendfile/sendfile09.c
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ static void setup(void)
 {
 	int i, fd;
 
+	if (tst_kernel_bits() == 32)
+		tst_brk(TCONF, "Test is only supported on 64-bit kernels");
+
 	if (!tst_fs_has_free(".", 5, TST_GB))
 		tst_brk(TCONF, "Test on large file needs 5G free space");
 
-- 
2.54.0



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