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selftests: ncdevmem: don't retry EFAULT
authorStanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Thu, 4 Sep 2025 18:27:10 +0000 (11:27 -0700)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Sat, 6 Sep 2025 01:14:34 +0000 (18:14 -0700)
commit8c0b9ed2401b9b3f164c8c94221899a1ace6e9ab
tree1aebc3fea6d82625c3433e9795f05c9897916c23
parent43a42b85162aa1430556d58bbde05b54786a2c5a
selftests: ncdevmem: don't retry EFAULT

devmem test fails on NIPA. Most likely we get skb(s) with readable
frags (why?) but the failure manifests as an OOM. The OOM happens
because ncdevmem spams the following message:

  recvmsg ret=-1
  recvmsg: Bad address

As of today, ncdevmem can't deal with various reasons of EFAULT:
- falling back to regular recvmsg for non-devmem skbs
- increasing ctrl_data size (can't happen with ncdevmem's large buffer)

Exit (cleanly) with error when recvmsg returns EFAULT. This should at
least cause the test to cleanup its state.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250904182710.1586473-1-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem.c