[LTP] [PATCH v4 2/3] userfaultfd: Use two-step handshake to probe features
Ricardo Branco
rbranco@suse.de
Thu May 7 14:28:54 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>
---
testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd05.c | 8 +++++++-
testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd06.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd05.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd05.c
index 59956d85d..a42ac09bd 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd05.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd05.c
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ static char *page;
static int uffd = -1;
static volatile int wp_fault_seen;
+static void setup(void)
+{
+ CHECK_UFFD_FEATURE(UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP);
+}
+
static void set_pages(void)
{
page_size = SAFE_SYSCONF(_SC_PAGE_SIZE);
@@ -87,7 +92,7 @@ static void *handle_thread(void *arg LTP_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
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;
@@ -127,6 +132,7 @@ static void run(void)
}
static struct tst_test test = {
+ .setup = setup,
.test_all = run,
.min_kver = "5.7",
.needs_kconfigs = (const char *[]) {
diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd06.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd06.c
index ec93d8ad6..1ab288e64 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd06.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/userfaultfd/userfaultfd06.c
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ static void setup(void)
{
struct sigaction sa = {};
+ CHECK_UFFD_FEATURE(UFFD_FEATURE_POISON);
+
sa.sa_handler = sigbus_handler;
sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask);
SAFE_SIGACTION(SIGBUS, &sa, NULL);
@@ -99,6 +101,7 @@ static void run(void)
poison_fault_seen = 0;
sigbus_seen = 0;
+
set_pages();
uffd = SAFE_USERFAULTFD(O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK, false);
@@ -108,9 +111,6 @@ static void run(void)
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;
--
2.54.0
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