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 --- tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem.c b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem.c index 8dc9511d046f..c0a22938bed2 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/hw/ncdevmem.c @@ -945,6 +945,10 @@ static int do_server(struct memory_buffer *mem) continue; if (ret < 0) { perror("recvmsg"); + if (errno == EFAULT) { + pr_err("received EFAULT, won't recover"); + goto err_close_client; + } continue; } if (ret == 0) { -- 2.51.0