[PATCH] KVM: selftests: Avoid assuming "sudo" exists

From: Brendan Jackman
Date: Mon Apr 15 2024 - 10:44:13 EST


I ran into a failure running this test on a minimal rootfs.

Can be fixed by just skipping the "sudo" in case we are already root.

Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/nx_huge_pages_test.sh | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/nx_huge_pages_test.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/nx_huge_pages_test.sh
index 7cbb409801eea..0e56822e8e0bf 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/nx_huge_pages_test.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/nx_huge_pages_test.sh
@@ -13,10 +13,21 @@ NX_HUGE_PAGES_RECOVERY_RATIO=$(cat /sys/module/kvm/parameters/nx_huge_pages_reco
NX_HUGE_PAGES_RECOVERY_PERIOD=$(cat /sys/module/kvm/parameters/nx_huge_pages_recovery_period_ms)
HUGE_PAGES=$(cat /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-2048kB/nr_hugepages)

+# If we're already root, the host might not have sudo.
+if [ $(whoami) == "root" ]; then
+ function maybe_sudo () {
+ "$@"
+ }
+else
+ function maybe_sudo () {
+ sudo "$@"
+ }
+fi
+
set +e

function sudo_echo () {
- echo "$1" | sudo tee -a "$2" > /dev/null
+ echo "$1" | maybe_sudo tee -a "$2" > /dev/null
}

NXECUTABLE="$(dirname $0)/nx_huge_pages_test"

---
base-commit: 2c71fdf02a95b3dd425b42f28fd47fb2b1d22702
change-id: 20240415-kvm-selftests-no-sudo-1a55f831f882

Best regards,
--
Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>