Re: [PATCH 5.10 049/101] KVM: selftests: Fix kvm_check_cap() assertion

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Jul 03 2021 - 11:21:57 EST


Hi!

> From: Fuad Tabba <tabba@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit d8ac05ea13d789d5491a5920d70a05659015441d ]
>
> KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION ioctl can return any negative value on error,
> and not necessarily -1. Change the assertion to reflect that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@xxxxxxxxxx>

This is userland code, right?

> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ int kvm_check_cap(long cap)
> exit(KSFT_SKIP);
>
> ret = ioctl(kvm_fd, KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION, cap);
> - TEST_ASSERT(ret != -1, "KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION IOCTL failed,\n"
> + TEST_ASSERT(ret >= 0, "KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION IOCTL failed,\n"
> " rc: %i errno: %i", ret, errno);

And syscalls return -1 on error in userland, not anything else. So
this should not be needed.

Best regards,
Pavel
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