This happens on 64-bit big-endian machines.
SO_RCVLOWAT requires an int parameter. However, instead of int, the test
uses unsigned long in one place and size_t in another. Both are 8 bytes
long on 64-bit machines. The kernel, having received the 8 bytes, doesn't
test for the exact size of the parameter, it only cares that it's >=
sizeof(int), and casts the 4 lower-addressed bytes to an int, which, on
a big-endian machine, contains 0. 0 doesn't trigger an error, SO_RCVLOWAT
returns with success and the socket stays with the default SO_RCVLOWAT = 1,
which results in test failures.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Shkolnyy <k...@linux.ibm.com>
---

Notes:
    The problem was found on s390 (big endian), while x86-64 didn't show it. 
After this fix, all tests pass on s390.

 tools/testing/vsock/vsock_test.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/vsock/vsock_test.c b/tools/testing/vsock/vsock_test.c
index 8d38dbf8f41f..7fd25b814b4b 100644
--- a/tools/testing/vsock/vsock_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/vsock/vsock_test.c
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ static void test_stream_poll_rcvlowat_server(const struct 
test_opts *opts)
 
 static void test_stream_poll_rcvlowat_client(const struct test_opts *opts)
 {
-       unsigned long lowat_val = RCVLOWAT_BUF_SIZE;
+       int lowat_val = RCVLOWAT_BUF_SIZE;
        char buf[RCVLOWAT_BUF_SIZE];
        struct pollfd fds;
        short poll_flags;
@@ -1357,7 +1357,7 @@ static void 
test_stream_rcvlowat_def_cred_upd_client(const struct test_opts *opt
 static void test_stream_credit_update_test(const struct test_opts *opts,
                                           bool low_rx_bytes_test)
 {
-       size_t recv_buf_size;
+       int recv_buf_size;
        struct pollfd fds;
        size_t buf_size;
        void *buf;
-- 
2.34.1


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