selftests/mm: drop unnecessary sudo usage

This script must be run as root anyway (see all the writing to privileged
files in /proc etc).

Remove the unnecessary use of sudo to avoid breaking on single-user
systems that don't have sudo.  This also avoids confusing readers.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250311-mm-selftests-v4-9-dec210a658f5@google.com
Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
index 4b5e45a10219781daa5bcedfac42e43a2bde3b1e..31a576d70b57265cf718ab41683c15fbda589e08 100755 (executable)
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ CATEGORY="madv_populate" run_test ./madv_populate
 
 if [ -x ./memfd_secret ]
 then
-(echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope 2>&1) | tap_prefix
+(echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope 2>&1) | tap_prefix
 CATEGORY="memfd_secret" run_test ./memfd_secret
 fi