[PATCH 6.1 0866/1191] selftests/mm: fix ternary operator precedence in ksm_tests

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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date
2026-09-12 16:33:13
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Greg Kroah-Hartman, 2026-09-12
6.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Sayali Patil <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 4e1fbffb3333626682a011db7c4b4e9e40ba96d4 ]

The KSM selftest uses conditional expressions to skip accesses to
merge_across_nodes on systems without NUMA support.  However, the ternary
operator is combined with logical OR without parentheses:

a || numa_available() ? 0 : b || c

Due to operator precedence rules, this is parsed as:

(a || numa_available()) ? 0 : (b || c)

instead of the intended:

a || (numa_available() ? 0 : b) || c

Add parentheses around the conditional expressions to ensure the
correct evaluation order.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/ce859430287ed2642848c933a90eb9a69da361f0.1783446924.git.sayalip@linux.ibm.com (local)
Fixes: 9aa1af954db0 ("selftests: vm: check numa_available() before operating "merge_across_nodes" in ksm_tests")
Signed-off-by: Sayali Patil <redacted>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/ksm_tests.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/ksm_tests.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/ksm_tests.c
index a811659307855..ecfe48a363bcb 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/ksm_tests.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/ksm_tests.c
@@ -223,8 +223,8 @@ static bool assert_ksm_pages_count(long dupl_page_count)
 static int ksm_save_def(struct ksm_sysfs *ksm_sysfs)
 {
 	if (ksm_read_sysfs(KSM_FP("max_page_sharing"), &ksm_sysfs->max_page_sharing) ||
-	    numa_available() ? 0 :
-		ksm_read_sysfs(KSM_FP("merge_across_nodes"), &ksm_sysfs->merge_across_nodes) ||
+	    (numa_available() ? 0 :
+		ksm_read_sysfs(KSM_FP("merge_across_nodes"), &ksm_sysfs->merge_across_nodes)) ||
 	    ksm_read_sysfs(KSM_FP("sleep_millisecs"), &ksm_sysfs->sleep_millisecs) ||
 	    ksm_read_sysfs(KSM_FP("pages_to_scan"), &ksm_sysfs->pages_to_scan) ||
 	    ksm_read_sysfs(KSM_FP("run"), &ksm_sysfs->run) ||
@@ -239,8 +239,8 @@ static int ksm_save_def(struct ksm_sysfs *ksm_sysfs)
 static int ksm_restore(struct ksm_sysfs *ksm_sysfs)
 {
 	if (ksm_write_sysfs(KSM_FP("max_page_sharing"), ksm_sysfs->max_page_sharing) ||
-	    numa_available() ? 0 :
-		ksm_write_sysfs(KSM_FP("merge_across_nodes"), ksm_sysfs->merge_across_nodes) ||
+	    (numa_available() ? 0 :
+		ksm_write_sysfs(KSM_FP("merge_across_nodes"), ksm_sysfs->merge_across_nodes)) ||
 	    ksm_write_sysfs(KSM_FP("pages_to_scan"), ksm_sysfs->pages_to_scan) ||
 	    ksm_write_sysfs(KSM_FP("run"), ksm_sysfs->run) ||
 	    ksm_write_sysfs(KSM_FP("sleep_millisecs"), ksm_sysfs->sleep_millisecs) ||
@@ -724,8 +724,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
 	if (ksm_write_sysfs(KSM_FP("run"), 2) ||
 	    ksm_write_sysfs(KSM_FP("sleep_millisecs"), 0) ||
-	    numa_available() ? 0 :
-		ksm_write_sysfs(KSM_FP("merge_across_nodes"), 1) ||
+	    (numa_available() ? 0 :
+		ksm_write_sysfs(KSM_FP("merge_across_nodes"), 1)) ||
 	    ksm_write_sysfs(KSM_FP("pages_to_scan"), page_count))
 		return KSFT_FAIL;
 
-- 
2.53.0


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