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Message-ID: <20260115184922.7e346931@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:49:22 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Geliang Tang <geliang@...nel.org>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, Sabrina Dubroca
 <sd@...asysnail.net>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman
 <horms@...nel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Gang Yan
 <yangang@...inos.cn>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, mptcp@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] selftests: tls: use mkstemp instead of
 open(O_TMPFILE)

On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:02:40 +0800 Geliang Tang wrote:
> This is because the /tmp directory uses the virtiofs filesystem, which does
> not support the O_TMPFILE feature.

I don't think selftests are expected to support setups where /tmp 
isn't tmp. Please fix your setup instead (or explain why it's very
crucial that you don't). The upstream CI runs all the selftests in
VMs and they are working just fine.
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