[PATCH bpf-next v2 4/4] selftests/bpf: Add a test for arena fault-in under memory.max
From: Jiayuan Chen
Date: Wed Aug 05 2026 - 05:22:30 EST
A child joins a memcg capped at 64M and faults an arena in until it runs
out of the budget. Without the kernel fix the child dies with SIGSEGV on
a valid arena address; with it, the child is killed by the memcg OOM
killer.
With the fix:
serial_test_arena_memcg:PASS:child killed by signal
serial_test_arena_memcg:PASS:not killed by SIGSEGV
#5 arena_memcg:OK
# dmesg
arena_vm_fault+0x655/0xa90
Memory cgroup out of memory: Killed process 512, file-rss:67920kB
Without the fix:
serial_test_arena_memcg:PASS:child killed by signal
serial_test_arena_memcg:FAIL:not killed by SIGSEGV: actual 11
#5 arena_memcg:FAIL
# dmesg
test_progs[508]: segfault at 100004025000 ...
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
---
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_memcg.c | 139 ++++++++++++++++++
.../testing/selftests/bpf/progs/arena_memcg.c | 24 +++
2 files changed, 163 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_memcg.c
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/arena_memcg.c
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_memcg.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_memcg.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ca039ebd3d67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/arena_memcg.c
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+#include <test_progs.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/user.h>
+#ifndef PAGE_SIZE /* on some archs it comes in sys/user.h */
+#include <unistd.h>
+#define PAGE_SIZE getpagesize()
+#endif
+
+#include "cgroup_helpers.h"
+#include "arena_memcg.skel.h"
+
+#define CG_PATH "/arena_memcg"
+
+/* Budget the arena gets on top of whatever is already charged after load. */
+#define ARENA_BUDGET (64 * 1024 * 1024)
+
+static void dump_memcg(int (*rd)(const char *, const char *, char *, size_t))
+{
+ char buf[512];
+
+ /*
+ * memory.current reads 0 once the child has left the cgroup, so it only
+ * carries information when dumped from the live child; memory.peak and
+ * memory.events survive the child and tell the story either way.
+ */
+ if (!rd(CG_PATH, "memory.current", buf, sizeof(buf)))
+ fprintf(stderr, "memory.current: %s", buf);
+ if (!rd(CG_PATH, "memory.max", buf, sizeof(buf)))
+ fprintf(stderr, "memory.max: %s", buf);
+ if (!rd(CG_PATH, "memory.peak", buf, sizeof(buf)))
+ fprintf(stderr, "memory.peak: %s", buf);
+ if (!rd(CG_PATH, "memory.events", buf, sizeof(buf)))
+ fprintf(stderr, "memory.events:\n%s", buf);
+ fflush(NULL); /* _exit() in the child would not flush stdio otherwise */
+}
+
+void serial_test_arena_memcg(void)
+{
+ int cgroup_fd = -1, status;
+ const long ps = PAGE_SIZE;
+ char buf[64];
+ pid_t pid;
+
+ if (setup_cgroup_environment())
+ return;
+
+ cgroup_fd = create_and_get_cgroup(CG_PATH);
+ if (!ASSERT_OK_FD(cgroup_fd, "create_and_get_cgroup"))
+ goto out;
+
+ /* No memory controller -> nothing to test. */
+ if (read_cgroup_file(CG_PATH, "memory.current", buf, sizeof(buf))) {
+ test__skip();
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ pid = fork();
+ if (!ASSERT_GE(pid, 0, "fork"))
+ goto out;
+ if (pid == 0) {
+ struct arena_memcg *cskel;
+ __u32 i, npages;
+ char *base;
+ size_t sz;
+ long cur;
+
+ /*
+ * Do everything from the child: the arena vma is VM_DONTCOPY so
+ * it would not survive fork(), only the child should be under the
+ * limit so that a memcg OOM cannot pick test_progs, and a map is
+ * charged to the memcg of the task that creates it - so join
+ * before load. The cgroup work dir belongs to the parent that set
+ * the environment up, so reach it with the _parent() helpers.
+ * Errors are reported to the parent through the exit code, since
+ * ASSERT_* in a forked child does not reach it.
+ */
+ snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d", getpid());
+ if (write_cgroup_file_parent(CG_PATH, "cgroup.procs", buf))
+ _exit(2);
+
+ cskel = arena_memcg__open_and_load();
+ if (!cskel)
+ _exit(3);
+
+ base = bpf_map__initial_value(cskel->maps.arena, &sz);
+ if (!base)
+ _exit(4);
+ npages = bpf_map__max_entries(cskel->maps.arena);
+
+ /*
+ * Cap only now, after load: everything but the fault-in is
+ * charged, so the arena gets a fixed budget regardless of what
+ * the load itself cost, and the load can never hit the limit.
+ */
+ if (read_cgroup_file_parent(CG_PATH, "memory.current", buf, sizeof(buf)))
+ _exit(5);
+ cur = strtol(buf, NULL, 10);
+ snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%ld", cur + ARENA_BUDGET);
+ if (write_cgroup_file_parent(CG_PATH, "memory.max", buf))
+ _exit(6);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < npages; i++)
+ base[(size_t)i * ps] = 1;
+ /* Faulted everything without dying: no pressure built, dump why. */
+ dump_memcg(read_cgroup_file_parent);
+ _exit(0);
+ }
+
+ if (!ASSERT_EQ(waitpid(pid, &status, 0), pid, "waitpid"))
+ goto out;
+
+ /* A non-zero exit means the child failed to set up; the code says where. */
+ if (WIFEXITED(status) && WEXITSTATUS(status)) {
+ ASSERT_OK(WEXITSTATUS(status), "child setup");
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Faulting a valid arena address until memory.max is hit must not look
+ * like an invalid access. Without the fix the fault path allocated with
+ * the non-blocking allocator, turned its -ENOMEM into VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV,
+ * and the child died with SIGSEGV on a valid address; now it is handled
+ * by the memcg OOM path and the child is killed by SIGKILL instead.
+ */
+ if (!ASSERT_TRUE(WIFSIGNALED(status), "child killed by signal"))
+ goto out;
+ if (!ASSERT_NEQ(WTERMSIG(status), SIGSEGV, "not killed by SIGSEGV"))
+ dump_memcg(read_cgroup_file);
+out:
+ if (cgroup_fd >= 0)
+ close(cgroup_fd);
+ cleanup_cgroup_environment();
+}
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/arena_memcg.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/arena_memcg.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..adecd9e8463e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/arena_memcg.c
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+#include <vmlinux.h>
+#include <bpf/bpf_helpers.h>
+#include "bpf_arena_common.h"
+
+struct {
+ __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARENA);
+ __uint(map_flags, BPF_F_MMAPABLE);
+ __uint(max_entries, 100000); /* number of pages */
+#ifdef __TARGET_ARCH_arm64
+ __ulong(map_extra, 0x1ull << 32); /* start of mmap() region */
+#else
+ __ulong(map_extra, 0x1ull << 44); /* start of mmap() region */
+#endif
+} arena SEC(".maps");
+
+SEC("syscall")
+int noop(void *ctx)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
+char _license[] SEC("license") = "GPL";
--
2.43.0