[PATCH RFC v5 39/53] KVM: selftests: Test that truncation does not change shared/private status

Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay
2026-04-28T23:25:20Z

Add a test to verify that deallocating a page in a guest memfd region via
fallocate() with FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE does not alter the shared or private
status of the corresponding memory range.

When a page backing a guest memfd mapping is deallocated, e.g., by punching
a hole or truncating the file, and then subsequently faulted back in, the
new page must inherit the correct shared/private status tracked by
guest_memfd.

Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
---
.../selftests/kvm/x86/guest_memfd_conversions_test.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/guest_memfd_conversions_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/guest_memfd_conversions_test.c
index 2312592c4076b..8dfbf3630cec2 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/guest_memfd_conversions_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/guest_memfd_conversions_test.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <linux/sizes.h>

#include "kvm_util.h"
+#include "kvm_syscalls.h"
#include "kselftest_harness.h"
#include "test_util.h"
#include "ucall_common.h"
@@ -320,6 +321,19 @@ GMEM_CONVERSION_MULTIPAGE_TEST_INIT_SHARED(unallocated_folios, 8)
test_convert_to_shared(t, i, 'B', 'C', 'D');
}

+/* Truncation should not affect shared/private status. */
+GMEM_CONVERSION_TEST_INIT_SHARED(truncate)
+{
+ host_do_rmw(t->mem, 0, 0, 'A');
+ kvm_fallocate(t->gmem_fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE, 0, page_size);
+ host_do_rmw(t->mem, 0, 0, 'A');
+
+ test_convert_to_private(t, 0, 'A', 'B');
+
+ kvm_fallocate(t->gmem_fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE, 0, page_size);
+ test_private(t, 0, 0, 'A');
+}
+
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
TEST_REQUIRE(kvm_check_cap(KVM_CAP_VM_TYPES) & BIT(KVM_X86_SW_PROTECTED_VM));

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