From: Wilson Felipe Pereira <wfelipe@google.com>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
"Yosry Ahmed" <yosry@kernel.org>, "Nhat Pham" <nphamcs@gmail.com>,
"Chengming Zhou" <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>,
"Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>, "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Wilson Felipe Pereira <wfelipe@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 2/2] selftests/cgroup: test_zswap: fix implicit unsigned promotion bug in test_no_kmem_bypass
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2026 05:22:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260901052250.154532-3-wfelipe@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260901052250.154532-1-wfelipe@google.com>
In test_no_kmem_bypass(), delta (stored_pages * page_size - zswapped) is
checked against stored_pages * page_size / 4 to verify that the pages
pushed to zswap belong to the test memory cgroup.
Due to slight stat update timing differences, delta can evaluate to a small
negative number (e.g. -5MB out of 1GB). Because delta is declared as a
signed int and stored_pages is an unsigned size_t, C's usual arithmetic
conversions implicitly promote a negative delta to a large unsigned 64-bit
integer, causing `delta < stored_pages * page_size / 4` to falsely evaluate
to 0 and fail the test.
Fix this by declaring zswapped and delta as signed long long and comparing
against a signed threshold, ensuring negative deltas correctly evaluate
to true.
Fixes: a549f9f31561a ("selftests: cgroup: add test_zswap with no kmem bypass test")
Signed-off-by: Wilson Felipe Pereira <wfelipe@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/lib/cgroup_util.c | 9 +++++++--
.../selftests/cgroup/lib/include/cgroup_util.h | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c | 13 ++++++++-----
3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/lib/cgroup_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/lib/cgroup_util.c
index 2596c12cd864..ce2dd36291f8 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/lib/cgroup_util.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/lib/cgroup_util.c
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ long cg_read_long_fd(int fd)
return atol(buf);
}
-long cg_read_key_long(const char *cgroup, const char *control, const char *key)
+long long cg_read_key_long_long(const char *cgroup, const char *control, const char *key)
{
char buf[BUF_SIZE];
char *ptr;
@@ -184,7 +184,12 @@ long cg_read_key_long(const char *cgroup, const char *control, const char *key)
if (!ptr)
return -1;
- return atol(ptr + strlen(key));
+ return atoll(ptr + strlen(key));
+}
+
+long cg_read_key_long(const char *cgroup, const char *control, const char *key)
+{
+ return (long)cg_read_key_long_long(cgroup, control, key);
}
long cg_read_key_long_poll(const char *cgroup, const char *control,
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/lib/include/cgroup_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/lib/include/cgroup_util.h
index 5d39c709ac7a..13923534003c 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/lib/include/cgroup_util.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/lib/include/cgroup_util.h
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ extern int cg_read_strstr(const char *cgroup, const char *control,
const char *needle);
extern long cg_read_long(const char *cgroup, const char *control);
extern long cg_read_long_fd(int fd);
+long long cg_read_key_long_long(const char *cgroup, const char *control, const char *key);
long cg_read_key_long(const char *cgroup, const char *control, const char *key);
long cg_read_key_long_poll(const char *cgroup, const char *control,
const char *key, long expected, int retries,
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
index 8f2c9aa4776c..11c67dde705f 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_zswap.c
@@ -630,11 +630,14 @@ static int test_no_kmem_bypass(const char *root)
break;
/* If memory was pushed to zswap, verify it belongs to memcg */
if (stored_pages > stored_pages_threshold) {
- int zswapped = cg_read_key_long(test_group, "memory.stat", "zswapped ");
- int delta = stored_pages * page_size - zswapped;
- int result_ok = delta < stored_pages * page_size / 4;
-
- ret = result_ok ? KSFT_PASS : KSFT_FAIL;
+ long long zswapped = cg_read_key_long_long(
+ test_group, "memory.stat", "zswapped ");
+ long long delta =
+ (long long)stored_pages * page_size - zswapped;
+ long long max_delta =
+ (long long)stored_pages * page_size / 4;
+
+ ret = (delta < max_delta) ? KSFT_PASS : KSFT_FAIL;
break;
}
}
--
2.55.0.970.g62bdec98f9-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-01 5:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-01 5:22 [PATCH v5 0/2] selftests/cgroup: fixes for test_zswap on single core VM Wilson Felipe Pereira
2026-09-01 5:22 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] selftests/cgroup: test_zswap: wait for cgroup to unpopulate in test_zswap_writeback Wilson Felipe Pereira
2026-09-01 5:22 ` Wilson Felipe Pereira [this message]
2026-09-01 8:57 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] selftests/cgroup: test_zswap: fix implicit unsigned promotion bug in test_no_kmem_bypass Michal Koutný
2026-09-01 22:42 ` Wilson Felipe Pereira
2026-09-02 17:21 ` Michal Koutný
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