On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 10:39:35AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> The test_memcg_sock test in memcontrol.c sets up an IPv6 socket and
> send data over it to consume memory and verify that memory.stat.sock
> and memory.current values are close.
>
> On systems where IPv6 isn't enabled or not configured to support
> SOCK_STREAM, the test_memcg_sock test always fails. When the socket()
> call fails, there is no way we can test the memory consumption and
> verify the above claim. I believe it is better to just skip the test
> in this case instead of reporting a test failure hinting that there
> may be something wrong with the memcg code.
>
> Fixes: 5f8f019380b8 ("selftests: cgroup/memcontrol: add basic test for socket
> accounting")
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
