[PATCH RFC 09/17] KVM: selftests: Test rejection of swap tmpfs mounts
From: Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay
Date: Fri Sep 25 2026 - 20:52:13 EST
From: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Ensure that guest_memfd creation fails with -EINVAL when passed a tmpfs
resource pool mount descriptor that has swap enabled, as required by
the tmpfs guest_memfd provider implementation.
Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c
index a7a1b5470cb2c..5d017164d7b45 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <linux/bitmap.h>
#include <linux/falloc.h>
+#include <linux/mount.h>
#include <linux/sizes.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
@@ -477,6 +478,54 @@ static void test_resource_fd_tmpfs_file(struct kvm_vm *vm)
close(file_fd);
}
+static int create_tmpfs_pool_fd(const char *huge, bool noswap, size_t size)
+{
+ char size_str[32];
+ int fs_fd, mnt_fd;
+
+ TEST_ASSERT(size && IS_ALIGNED(size, page_size),
+ "Pool size '0x%zx' must be positive and page-aligned", size);
+
+ fs_fd = syscall(__NR_fsopen, "tmpfs", FSOPEN_CLOEXEC);
+ TEST_ASSERT(fs_fd >= 0, "fsopen failed");
+
+ if (noswap)
+ TEST_ASSERT(!syscall(__NR_fsconfig, fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG,
+ "noswap", NULL, 0), "fsconfig noswap failed");
+
+ if (huge)
+ TEST_ASSERT(!syscall(__NR_fsconfig, fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING,
+ "huge", huge, 0), "fsconfig huge failed");
+
+ snprintf(size_str, sizeof(size_str), "%zu", size);
+ TEST_ASSERT(!syscall(__NR_fsconfig, fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING,
+ "size", size_str, 0), "fsconfig size failed");
+
+ TEST_ASSERT(!syscall(__NR_fsconfig, fs_fd, FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE,
+ NULL, NULL, 0), "fsconfig create failed");
+
+ mnt_fd = syscall(__NR_fsmount, fs_fd, FSMOUNT_CLOEXEC, 0);
+ TEST_ASSERT(mnt_fd > 0, "fsmount failed");
+
+ close(fs_fd);
+ return mnt_fd;
+}
+
+static void test_resource_fd_tmpfs_swap(struct kvm_vm *vm)
+{
+ int pool_fd, fd;
+
+ pool_fd = create_tmpfs_pool_fd("never", false, page_size);
+
+ fd = __vm_create_guest_memfd_resource(vm, page_size,
+ GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_USE_RESOURCE,
+ pool_fd);
+ TEST_ASSERT(fd < 0, "guest_memfd with swap-enabled tmpfs should fail");
+ TEST_ASSERT_EQ(errno, EINVAL);
+
+ close(pool_fd);
+}
+
#define ____gmem_test(__test, __vm, __flags, __gmem_size, args...) \
do { \
int fd = vm_create_guest_memfd(__vm, __gmem_size, __flags); \
@@ -538,6 +587,7 @@ static void test_guest_memfd(unsigned long vm_type)
test_resource_fd_invalid(vm);
test_resource_fd_unsupported_fs(vm);
test_resource_fd_tmpfs_file(vm);
+ test_resource_fd_tmpfs_swap(vm);
__test_guest_memfd(vm, 0);
--
2.56.0.rc1.315.gc6ed9934b7-goog