The MTE selftests create temporary files in /dev/shm, for later mmap-ing them. When there is no tmpfs mounted on /dev/shm, or /dev/shm does not exist in the first place (on minimal filesystems), the error message is not giving good hints: # FAIL: Unable to open temporary file # FAIL: memory allocation not ok 17 Check initial tags with private mapping, ...
Add a perror() call, that gives both the filename and the actual error reason, so that users get a chance of correcting that.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara andre.przywara@arm.com --- tools/testing/selftests/arm64/mte/mte_common_util.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/mte/mte_common_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/mte/mte_common_util.c index 040abdca079d..f50ac31920d1 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/mte/mte_common_util.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/mte/mte_common_util.c @@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ int create_temp_file(void) /* Create a file in the tmpfs filesystem */ fd = mkstemp(&filename[0]); if (fd == -1) { + perror(filename); ksft_print_msg("FAIL: Unable to open temporary file\n"); return 0; }