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From: Vineet Agarwal <agarwal.vineet2006@gmail.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: david@kernel.org, ljs@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Vineet Agarwal <agarwal.vineet2006@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] selftests/mm: check file initialization writes in split_huge_page_test
Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 13:19:24 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260512074924.27721-1-agarwal.vineet2006@gmail.com> (raw)

create_pagecache_thp_and_fd() fills the backing file for the
pagecache THP tests using repeated write() calls, but the return
value is never checked.

If a write fails or completes only partially, the test may continue
with an incompletely initialized file and produce misleading results.

Check the result of write() and fail the test if the expected number
of bytes was not written.

Signed-off-by: Vineet Agarwal <agarwal.vineet2006@gmail.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
index 500d07c4938b..eab69b0f59a0 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c
@@ -609,9 +609,16 @@ static int create_pagecache_thp_and_fd(const char *testfile, size_t fd_size,
 	assert(fd_size % sizeof(buf) == 0);
 	for (i = 0; i < sizeof(buf); i++)
 		buf[i] = (unsigned char)i;
-	for (i = 0; i < fd_size; i += sizeof(buf))
-		write(*fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
-
+	for (i = 0; i < fd_size; i += sizeof(buf)) {
+		ssize_t written;
+
+		written = write(*fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
+		if (written != sizeof(buf)) {
+			ksft_perror("write testfile");
+			close(*fd);
+			goto err_out_unlink;
+		}
+	}
 	close(*fd);
 	sync();
 	*fd = open("/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches", O_WRONLY);
-- 
2.54.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-05-12  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-12  7:49 Vineet Agarwal [this message]
2026-05-12  7:57 ` [PATCH] selftests/mm: check file initialization writes in split_huge_page_test David Hildenbrand (Arm)

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