[PATCH 1/2] kselftest/arm64/gcs: Correctly check return value when disabling GCS

Thomas Weißschuh linux at weissschuh.net
Thu Aug 21 08:13:02 PDT 2025


The return value was not assigned to 'ret', so the check afterwards
does not do anything.

Fixes: 3d37d4307e0f ("kselftest/arm64: Add very basic GCS test program")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux at weissschuh.net>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/arm64/gcs/basic-gcs.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/gcs/basic-gcs.c b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/gcs/basic-gcs.c
index 54f9c888249d74451e1432280a395156ce72e56c..100d2a983155f7347a19b2b8b88f9494dc6a51d5 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/gcs/basic-gcs.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/gcs/basic-gcs.c
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ int main(void)
 	}
 
 	/* One last test: disable GCS, we can do this one time */
-	my_syscall5(__NR_prctl, PR_SET_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS, 0, 0, 0, 0);
+	ret = my_syscall5(__NR_prctl, PR_SET_SHADOW_STACK_STATUS, 0, 0, 0, 0);
 	if (ret != 0)
 		ksft_print_msg("Failed to disable GCS: %d\n", ret);
 

-- 
2.50.1




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