Since there's no point in doing anything in this case, immediately exit the process. And take the opportunity to improve the error message. Before: # ./userfaultfd shmem 10 10 nr_pages: 160, nr_pages_per_cpu: 40 userfaultfd syscall not available in this kernel # echo $? 1 After: # ./userfaultfd shmem 10 10 nr_pages: 160, nr_pages_per_cpu: 40 userfaultfd syscall not available in this kernel: Function not implemented # echo $? 4 Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c index e4099afe7557..d728bd1cb33c 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c @@ -636,9 +636,11 @@ static int userfaultfd_open(int features) uffd = syscall(__NR_userfaultfd, O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK); if (uffd < 0) { - fprintf(stderr, - "userfaultfd syscall not available in this kernel\n"); - return 1; + int errnum = errno; + + perror("userfaultfd syscall not available in this kernel"); + + exit(errnum == ENOSYS ? KSFT_SKIP : 1); } uffd_flags = fcntl(uffd, F_GETFD, NULL); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kselftest" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html