Expand the SKIP conditions of the open_path_or_exit() helper to skip on EACCES as well as ENOENT. Most often, lack of permissions to a file needed by a KVM selftests is due to a file being root-only by default, not because of any bug/misconfiguration that warrants failing a test. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c index b133f2b1dbf7..cd415f70de98 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c @@ -37,9 +37,10 @@ int __open_path_or_exit(const char *path, int flags, const char *enoent_help) return fd; error: - if (errno == ENOENT) + if (errno == EACCES || errno == ENOENT) ksft_exit_skip("- Cannot open '%s': %s. %s\n", - path, strerror(errno), enoent_help); + path, strerror(errno), + errno == EACCES ? "Root required?" : enoent_help); TEST_FAIL("Failed to open '%s'", path); } -- 2.49.0.1112.g889b7c5bd8-goog