Fuad Tabba <[email protected]> writes: I agree that perhaps in this case manually setting up the memslot after mmap()-ing anonymous memory is better since it's more explicit about what is being tested.
> kvm_vm_release() closes vmp->fd and vmp->kvm_fd unconditionally, and > kvm_vm_free() calls kvm_vm_release() at teardown. A test that calls > kvm_vm_release() and then kvm_vm_free() without a > vm_recreate_with_one_vcpu() in between double-closes both FDs. Since > kvm_close() asserts on close() failure, the second close trips > TEST_ASSERT and aborts the test, or, if the FD was recycled, silently > closes an unrelated file. > Never thought about this fd-recycling case, I think this change still has value in avoiding the silent closing of some other file. > > [...snip...] >

