Commit 1d808f82 authored by Arnd Bergmann's avatar Arnd Bergmann Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

kselftest: fix OOM in memory compaction test

commit 4c1baad2 upstream.

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@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: default avatarNaresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Link: https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3145Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarShuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent ee3d989b
......@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ 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");
......
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