From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Tianyi Chen <hi@tychen.cc>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] selftests/mm: Exit on invalid command-line options
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 13:47:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <519ef70a-679c-455f-ba5f-3841730873a4@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260906135444.749144-1-hi@tychen.cc>
On 9/6/26 15:54, Tianyi Chen wrote:
> getopts reports unknown options and missing option arguments, but
> run_vmtests.sh ignores its error result and continues running tests.
> For example, passing -z or omitting the argument to -t can run the
> default test selection instead of rejecting the command.
>
> Exit with failure when getopts reports an error, before any tests or
> their setup run. Keep the diagnostic provided by getopts.
>
> Verified that -z, -t and -t mmap -z exit with status 1, while -h still
> exits with status 0. The mmap category's three test programs pass in
> a VM running the kernel built from the same source tree.
I wonder whether we also bail out on wrong/missing categories?
It's also interesting that we do the /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope stuff
even when not actually running the memfd_secret test.
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-07 11:47 UTC|newest]
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2026-09-06 13:54 ` Tianyi Chen
2026-09-07 11:47 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-09-08 9:55 ` Tianyi Chen
2026-09-08 9:55 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] selftests/mm: Validate selections and scope memfd_secret setup Tianyi Chen
2026-09-08 9:55 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] selftests/mm: Reject invalid test selections before running tests Tianyi Chen
2026-09-08 10:13 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 9:55 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] selftests/mm: Only prepare ptrace_scope when memfd_secret is selected Tianyi Chen
2026-09-08 10:14 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 10:15 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] selftests/mm: Validate selections and scope memfd_secret setup David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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