[PATCH 1/2] KVM: selftests: kvm_vm_elf_load() and elfhdr_get() should close fd

Oliver Upton oupton at google.com
Wed Feb 16 19:55:55 PST 2022


On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 7:50 PM Reiji Watanabe <reijiw at google.com> wrote:
>
> kvm_vm_elf_load() and elfhdr_get() open one file each, but they
> never close the opened file descriptor.  If a test repeatedly
> creates and destroys a VM with vm_create_with_vcpus(), which
> (directly or indirectly) calls those two functions, the test
> might end up getting a open failure with EMFILE.
> Fix those two functions to close the file descriptor.
>
> Signed-off-by: Reiji Watanabe <reijiw at google.com>

Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oupton at google.com>

> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/elf.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/elf.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/elf.c
> index 13e8e3dcf984..9b23537a3caa 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/elf.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/elf.c
> @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ static void elfhdr_get(const char *filename, Elf64_Ehdr *hdrp)
>                 "  hdrp->e_shentsize: %x\n"
>                 "  expected: %zx",
>                 hdrp->e_shentsize, sizeof(Elf64_Shdr));
> +       close(fd);
>  }
>
>  /* VM ELF Load
> @@ -190,4 +191,5 @@ void kvm_vm_elf_load(struct kvm_vm *vm, const char *filename)
>                                 phdr.p_filesz);
>                 }
>         }
> +       close(fd);
>  }
> --
> 2.35.1.473.g83b2b277ed-goog
>



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