Re: [PATCH 3/6] selftests/mm : fix test_prctl_fork_exec failure

[Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>]

On 16/06/25 9:36 pm, Aboorva Devarajan wrote:
> From: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
>
> execv argument is an array of pointers to null-terminated strings.
> In this patch we added NULL in the execv argument to fix the test
> failure.

Just a comment, how did this test suddenly start failing now? Also is a
fixes tag required? Clearly I am missing something.

> Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>   tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c
> index d7d3c22c077a..6ea50272a0ba 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/ksm_functional_tests.c
> @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ static void test_prctl_fork_exec(void)
>   		return;
>   	} else if (child_pid == 0) {
>   		char *prg_name = "./ksm_functional_tests";
> -		char *argv_for_program[] = { prg_name, FORK_EXEC_CHILD_PRG_NAME };
> +		char *argv_for_program[] = { prg_name, FORK_EXEC_CHILD_PRG_NAME, NULL };
>   
>   		execv(prg_name, argv_for_program);
>   		return;