[PATCH 2/2] tools/virtio: check posix_memalign() for failure

From: Liam R. Howlett (Google)

Date: Mon Oct 19 2026 - 23:30:35 EST


posix_memalign() returns zero or a positive error number and does not set
errno. virtio_test and vhost_net_test assert that the return is not
negative, which will always be true, and the userspace __get_free_page()
ignores it, so a failed allocation continues without setting the pointer

Assert a zero return in the tests, and return 0 from __get_free_page() on
failure, as the kernel's does.

Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett (Google) <liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/virtio/linux/kernel.h | 3 ++-
tools/virtio/vhost_net_test.c | 2 +-
tools/virtio/virtio_test.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/virtio/linux/kernel.h b/tools/virtio/linux/kernel.h
index 104abf9d1aee5..3497660c690a9 100644
--- a/tools/virtio/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/tools/virtio/linux/kernel.h
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ static inline unsigned long __get_free_page(gfp_t gfp)
{
void *p;

- posix_memalign(&p, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
+ if (posix_memalign(&p, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE))
+ return 0;
return (unsigned long)p;
}

diff --git a/tools/virtio/vhost_net_test.c b/tools/virtio/vhost_net_test.c
index 566e15420bb65..3122ea0970568 100644
--- a/tools/virtio/vhost_net_test.c
+++ b/tools/virtio/vhost_net_test.c
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ static void vq_info_add(struct vdev_info *dev, int idx, int num, int fd)
info->idx = idx;
info->kick = eventfd(0, EFD_NONBLOCK);
r = posix_memalign(&info->ring, 4096, vring_size(num, 4096));
- assert(r >= 0);
+ assert(!r);
vq_reset(info, num, &dev->vdev);
vhost_vq_setup(dev, info);

diff --git a/tools/virtio/virtio_test.c b/tools/virtio/virtio_test.c
index 028f54e6854a8..9d61463f6e09b 100644
--- a/tools/virtio/virtio_test.c
+++ b/tools/virtio/virtio_test.c
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static void vq_info_add(struct vdev_info *dev, int num)
info->kick = eventfd(0, EFD_NONBLOCK);
info->call = eventfd(0, EFD_NONBLOCK);
r = posix_memalign(&info->ring, 4096, vring_size(num, 4096));
- assert(r >= 0);
+ assert(!r);
vq_reset(info, num, &dev->vdev);
vhost_vq_setup(dev, info);
dev->fds[info->idx].fd = info->call;
--
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