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> --- v1->v2: Fixed second instance in the same file tools/testing/selftests/vm/mrelease_test.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/mrelease_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/mrelease_test.c index 96671c2f7d48..e8b17258579b 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 */ @@ -156,8 +158,9 @@ int main(void) run_negative_tests(pidfd); if (kill(pid, SIGKILL)) { + res = (errno == ENOSYS ? KSFT_SKIP : KSFT_FAIL); perror("kill"); - exit(errno == ENOSYS ? KSFT_SKIP : KSFT_FAIL); + exit(res); } success = (syscall(__NR_process_mrelease, pidfd, 0) == 0); -- 2.35.1