[PATCH RFC 11/17] KVM: selftests: Test guest_memfd with anonymous fsmount() tmpfs pool

From: Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay

Date: Fri Sep 25 2026 - 20:53:51 EST


From: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>

Add test coverage verifying that creating a guest_memfd backed by an
anonymous tmpfs mount descriptor returned by fsmount() succeeds and
reports the requested file size.

Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c
index e8199ed17b0f8..73212d5307049 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c
@@ -541,12 +541,23 @@ static void test_resource_fd_tmpfs_huge(struct kvm_vm *vm)
close(pool_fd);
}

-#define ____gmem_test(__test, __vm, __flags, __gmem_size, args...) \
-do { \
- int fd = vm_create_guest_memfd(__vm, __gmem_size, __flags); \
- \
- test_##__test(args); \
- close(fd); \
+#define ____gmem_test(__test, __vm, __flags, __gmem_size, args...) \
+do { \
+ int pool_fd = -1; \
+ int fd; \
+ \
+ if ((__flags) & GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_USE_RESOURCE) { \
+ pool_fd = create_tmpfs_pool_fd("never", true, __gmem_size); \
+ fd = vm_create_guest_memfd_resource(__vm, __gmem_size, \
+ __flags, pool_fd); \
+ } else { \
+ fd = vm_create_guest_memfd(__vm, __gmem_size, __flags); \
+ } \
+ \
+ test_##__test(args); \
+ close(fd); \
+ if (pool_fd >= 0) \
+ close(pool_fd); \
} while (0)

#define __gmem_test(__test, __vm, __flags, __gmem_size) \
@@ -606,15 +617,23 @@ static void test_guest_memfd(unsigned long vm_type)
test_resource_fd_tmpfs_huge(vm);

__test_guest_memfd(vm, 0);
+ __test_guest_memfd(vm, GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_USE_RESOURCE);

flags = vm_check_cap(vm, KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS);
- if (flags & GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP)
+ if (flags & GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP) {
__test_guest_memfd(vm, GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP);
+ __test_guest_memfd(vm, GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP |
+ GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_USE_RESOURCE);
+ }

/* MMAP should always be supported if INIT_SHARED is supported. */
- if (flags & GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_INIT_SHARED)
+ if (flags & GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_INIT_SHARED) {
__test_guest_memfd(vm, GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP |
GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_INIT_SHARED);
+ __test_guest_memfd(vm, GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP |
+ GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_INIT_SHARED |
+ GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_USE_RESOURCE);
+ }

kvm_vm_free(vm);
}

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