Re: [PATCH] selftests/mm: Fix validate_addr helper

[Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>]

On 6/20/25 4:41 PM, Dev Jain wrote:
> validate_addr() function checks whether the address returned by mmap()
> lies in the low or high VA space, according to whether a high addr hint
> was passed or not. The fix commit mentioned below changed the code in
> such a way that this function will always return failure when passed
> high_addr == 1; addr will be >= HIGH_ADDR_MARK always, we will fall
> down to "if (addr < HIGH_ADDR_MARK)" and return failure. Fix this.
>
> Fixes: d1d86ce28d0f ("selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: conform to TAP format output")
> Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
> ---
>   tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c | 7 +++++--
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c
> index b380e102b22f..169dbd692bf5 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/virtual_address_range.c
> @@ -77,8 +77,11 @@ static void validate_addr(char *ptr, int high_addr)
>   {
>   	unsigned long addr = (unsigned long) ptr;
>   
> -	if (high_addr && addr < HIGH_ADDR_MARK)
> -		ksft_exit_fail_msg("Bad address %lx\n", addr);
> +	if (high_addr) {
> +		if (addr < HIGH_ADDR_MARK)
> +			ksft_exit_fail_msg("Bad address %lx\n", addr);
> +		return;
> +	}
>   
>   	if (addr > HIGH_ADDR_MARK)
>   		ksft_exit_fail_msg("Bad address %lx\n", addr);


This looks good to me. Feel free to add

Reviewed-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>