mrelease_test should return KSFT_SKIP when process_mrelease is not defined, but due to a perror call consuming the errno, it returns KSFT_FAIL. This patch decides the exit code before calling perror. Signed-off-by: Adam Sindelar <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/vm/mrelease_test.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/mrelease_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/mrelease_test.c index 96671c2f7d48..bdf49a0af3f6 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/mrelease_test.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/mrelease_test.c @@ -100,8 +100,10 @@ int main(void) /* Test a wrong pidfd */ if (!syscall(__NR_process_mrelease, -1, 0) || errno != EBADF) { + /* perror overwrites errno, so this line must be first */ + res = errno == ENOSYS ? KSFT_SKIP : KSFT_FAIL; perror("process_mrelease with wrong pidfd"); - exit(errno == ENOSYS ? KSFT_SKIP : KSFT_FAIL); + exit(res); } /* Start the test with 1MB child memory allocation */ -- 2.35.1