diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/run_vmtests.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/run_vmtests.sh
index 1948098f431d..3b265f140c25 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/run_vmtests.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/run_vmtests.sh
@@ -208,14 +208,13 @@ echo "running userfaultfd_hugetlb"
 echo "---------------------------"
 # Test requires source and destination huge pages.  Size of source
 # (half_ufd_size_MB) is passed as argument to test.
-./userfaultfd hugetlb $half_ufd_size_MB 32 $mnt/ufd_test_file
+./userfaultfd hugetlb $half_ufd_size_MB 32
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
 	echo "[FAIL]"
 	exitcode=1
 else
 	echo "[PASS]"
 fi
-rm -f $mnt/ufd_test_file
 
 echo "-------------------------"
 echo "running userfaultfd_shmem"
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c
index 50476ec6c070..388bf4fc9dc6 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ static bool test_uffdio_minor = false;
 static bool map_shared;
 static int shm_fd;
 static int huge_fd;
-static char *huge_fd_off0;
 static unsigned long long *count_verify;
 static int uffd = -1;
 static int uffd_flags, finished, *pipefd;
@@ -127,9 +126,9 @@ const char *examples =
     "./userfaultfd anon 100 99999\n\n"
     "# Run share memory test on 1GiB region with 99 bounces:\n"
     "./userfaultfd shmem 1000 99\n\n"
-    "# Run hugetlb memory test on 256MiB region with 50 bounces (using /dev/hugepages/hugefile):\n"
-    "./userfaultfd hugetlb 256 50 /dev/hugepages/hugefile\n\n"
-    "# Run the same hugetlb test but using shmem:\n"
+    "# Run hugetlb memory test on 256MiB region with 50 bounces:\n"
+    "./userfaultfd hugetlb 256 50\n\n"
+    "# Run the same hugetlb test but using shared file:\n"
     "./userfaultfd hugetlb_shared 256 50 /dev/hugepages/hugefile\n\n"
     "# 10MiB-~6GiB 999 bounces anonymous test, "
     "continue forever unless an error triggers\n"
@@ -226,10 +225,13 @@ static void noop_alias_mapping(__u64 *start, size_t len, unsigned long offset)
 
 static void hugetlb_release_pages(char *rel_area)
 {
-	if (fallocate(huge_fd, FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE,
-		      rel_area == huge_fd_off0 ? 0 : nr_pages * page_size,
-		      nr_pages * page_size))
-		err("fallocate() failed");
+	if (!map_shared) {
+		if (madvise(rel_area, nr_pages * page_size, MADV_DONTNEED))
+			err("madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) failed");
+	} else {
+		if (madvise(rel_area, nr_pages * page_size, MADV_REMOVE))
+			err("madvise(MADV_REMOVE) failed");
+	}
 }
 
 static void hugetlb_allocate_area(void **alloc_area)
@@ -237,26 +239,37 @@ static void hugetlb_allocate_area(void **alloc_area)
 	void *area_alias = NULL;
 	char **alloc_area_alias;
 
-	*alloc_area = mmap(NULL, nr_pages * page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-			   (map_shared ? MAP_SHARED : MAP_PRIVATE) |
-			   MAP_HUGETLB |
-			   (*alloc_area == area_src ? 0 : MAP_NORESERVE),
-			   huge_fd, *alloc_area == area_src ? 0 :
-			   nr_pages * page_size);
+	if (!map_shared)
+		*alloc_area = mmap(NULL,
+			nr_pages * page_size,
+			PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB |
+				(*alloc_area == area_src ? 0 : MAP_NORESERVE),
+			-1,
+			0);
+	else
+		*alloc_area = mmap(NULL,
+			nr_pages * page_size,
+			PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			MAP_SHARED |
+				(*alloc_area == area_src ? 0 : MAP_NORESERVE),
+			huge_fd,
+			*alloc_area == area_src ? 0 : nr_pages * page_size);
 	if (*alloc_area == MAP_FAILED)
 		err("mmap of hugetlbfs file failed");
 
 	if (map_shared) {
-		area_alias = mmap(NULL, nr_pages * page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-				  MAP_SHARED | MAP_HUGETLB,
-				  huge_fd, *alloc_area == area_src ? 0 :
-				  nr_pages * page_size);
+		area_alias = mmap(NULL,
+			nr_pages * page_size,
+			PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			MAP_SHARED,
+			huge_fd,
+			*alloc_area == area_src ? 0 : nr_pages * page_size);
 		if (area_alias == MAP_FAILED)
 			err("mmap of hugetlb file alias failed");
 	}
 
 	if (*alloc_area == area_src) {
-		huge_fd_off0 = *alloc_area;
 		alloc_area_alias = &area_src_alias;
 	} else {
 		alloc_area_alias = &area_dst_alias;
@@ -269,12 +282,7 @@ static void hugetlb_alias_mapping(__u64 *start, size_t len, unsigned long offset
 {
 	if (!map_shared)
 		return;
-	/*
-	 * We can't zap just the pagetable with hugetlbfs because
-	 * MADV_DONTEED won't work. So exercise -EEXIST on a alias
-	 * mapping where the pagetables are not established initially,
-	 * this way we'll exercise the -EEXEC at the fs level.
-	 */
+
 	*start = (unsigned long) area_dst_alias + offset;
 }
 
@@ -427,7 +435,6 @@ static void uffd_test_ctx_clear(void)
 		uffd = -1;
 	}
 
-	huge_fd_off0 = NULL;
 	munmap_area((void **)&area_src);
 	munmap_area((void **)&area_src_alias);
 	munmap_area((void **)&area_dst);
@@ -925,10 +932,7 @@ static int faulting_process(int signal_test)
 	struct sigaction act;
 	unsigned long signalled = 0;
 
-	if (test_type != TEST_HUGETLB)
-		split_nr_pages = (nr_pages + 1) / 2;
-	else
-		split_nr_pages = nr_pages;
+	split_nr_pages = (nr_pages + 1) / 2;
 
 	if (signal_test) {
 		sigbuf = &jbuf;
@@ -985,9 +989,6 @@ static int faulting_process(int signal_test)
 	if (signal_test)
 		return signalled != split_nr_pages;
 
-	if (test_type == TEST_HUGETLB)
-		return 0;
-
 	area_dst = mremap(area_dst, nr_pages * page_size,  nr_pages * page_size,
 			  MREMAP_MAYMOVE | MREMAP_FIXED, area_src);
 	if (area_dst == MAP_FAILED)
@@ -1675,7 +1676,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	}
 	nr_pages = nr_pages_per_cpu * nr_cpus;
 
-	if (test_type == TEST_HUGETLB) {
+	if (test_type == TEST_HUGETLB && map_shared) {
 		if (argc < 5)
 			usage();
 		huge_fd = open(argv[4], O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0755);
