+ selftests-mm-skip-test-if-application-doesnt-has-root-privileges.patch added to mm-unstable branch

+ selftests-mm-skip-test-if-application-doesnt-has-root-privileges.patch added to mm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: selftests/mm: skip test if application doesn't has root privileges
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     selftests-mm-skip-test-if-application-doesnt-has-root-privileges.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/selftests-mm-skip-test-if-application-doesnt-has-root-privileges.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Subject: selftests/mm: skip test if application doesn't has root privileges
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 13:36:13 +0500

The test depends on writing to nr_hugepages which isn't possible without
root privileges.  So skip the test in this case.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240101083614.1076768-2-usama.anjum@collabora.com
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c~selftests-mm-skip-test-if-application-doesnt-has-root-privileges
+++ a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/compaction_test.c
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	ksft_print_header();
 
-	if (prereq() != 0)
+	if (prereq() || geteuid())
 		return ksft_exit_pass();
 
 	ksft_set_plan(1);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from usama.anjum@collabora.com are

mm-selftests-hugepage-mremap-conform-test-to-tap-format-output.patch
selftests-mm-gup_test-conform-test-to-tap-format-output.patch
selftests-mm-hugepage-mmap-conform-to-tap-format-output.patch
selftests-mm-conform-test-to-tap-format-output.patch
selftests-mm-skip-test-if-application-doesnt-has-root-privileges.patch