[PATCH] kselftest: fix OOM in memory compaction test

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Jan 09 2018 - 11:27:09 EST


Running the compaction_test sometimes results in out-of-memory
failures. When I debugged this, it turned out that the code to
reset the number of hugepages to the initial value is simply
broken since we write into an open sysctl file descriptor
multiple times without seeking back to the start.

Adding the lseek here fixes the problem.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3145
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c
index a65b016d4c13..1097f04e4d80 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ int check_compaction(unsigned long mem_free, unsigned int hugepage_size)
printf("No of huge pages allocated = %d\n",
(atoi(nr_hugepages)));

+ lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
+
if (write(fd, initial_nr_hugepages, strlen(initial_nr_hugepages))
!= strlen(initial_nr_hugepages)) {
perror("Failed to write value to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages\n");
--
2.9.0