[PATCH] selftests/mm: fix read_file() return value check

From: Hongfu Li

Date: Thu Aug 06 2026 - 21:38:00 EST


From: Hongfu Li <lihongfu@xxxxxxxxxx>

read_file() returns 0 on open/read failures and never returns negative
values. Existing < 0 error checks never trigger, so read failures are
silently ignored. Check for zero return to detect read_file() failures.

Also fix misleading error message in get_finfo(). The error string
incorrectly references read_num when reading uevent files.

Signed-off-by: Hongfu Li <lihongfu@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c | 4 ++--
tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
index 10e8dedcb087..506310d4b4d5 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@ static void get_finfo(const char *dir)
major(path_stat.st_dev), minor(path_stat.st_dev))
>= sizeof(path))
ksft_exit_fail_msg("%s: Pathname is too long\n", __func__);
- if (read_file(path, buf, sizeof(buf)) < 0)
- ksft_exit_fail_perror("read_file(read_num)");
+ if (!read_file(path, buf, sizeof(buf)))
+ ksft_exit_fail_perror("read_file(uevent)");
if (strstr(buf, "DEVTYPE=disk")) {
/* Found it */
if (snprintf(finfo.dev_queue_read_ahead_path,
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
index ef1ea11981a7..2697d50d07f4 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ unsigned long read_num(const char *path)
{
char buf[21];

- if (read_file(path, buf, sizeof(buf)) < 0)
+ if (!read_file(path, buf, sizeof(buf)))
ksft_exit_fail_perror("read_file()");

return strtoul(buf, NULL, 10);
--
2.54.0