diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile
index fdc7dff8d6ae..18c43336ede3 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ TEST_GEN_PROGS_x86_64 += access_tracking_perf_test
 TEST_GEN_PROGS_x86_64 += demand_paging_test
 TEST_GEN_PROGS_x86_64 += dirty_log_test
 TEST_GEN_PROGS_x86_64 += dirty_log_perf_test
+TEST_GEN_PROGS_x86_64 += guest_memfd_test
 TEST_GEN_PROGS_x86_64 += hardware_disable_test
 TEST_GEN_PROGS_x86_64 += kvm_create_max_vcpus
 TEST_GEN_PROGS_x86_64 += kvm_page_table_test
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d698f9fde987
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Copyright Intel Corporation, 2023
+ *
+ * Author: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
+ */
+
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+#include "test_util.h"
+#include "kvm_util_base.h"
+#include <linux/falloc.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+
+static void test_file_read_write(int fd)
+{
+	char buf[64];
+
+	TEST_ASSERT(read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)) < 0,
+		    "read on a guest_mem fd should fail");
+	TEST_ASSERT(write(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)) < 0,
+		    "write on a guest_mem fd should fail");
+	TEST_ASSERT(pread(fd, buf, sizeof(buf), 0) < 0,
+		    "pread on a guest_mem fd should fail");
+	TEST_ASSERT(pwrite(fd, buf, sizeof(buf), 0) < 0,
+		    "pwrite on a guest_mem fd should fail");
+}
+
+static void test_mmap(int fd, size_t page_size)
+{
+	char *mem;
+
+	mem = mmap(NULL, page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
+	ASSERT_EQ(mem, MAP_FAILED);
+}
+
+static void test_file_size(int fd, size_t page_size, size_t total_size)
+{
+	struct stat sb;
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = fstat(fd, &sb);
+	TEST_ASSERT(!ret, "fstat should succeed");
+	ASSERT_EQ(sb.st_size, total_size);
+	ASSERT_EQ(sb.st_blksize, page_size);
+}
+
+static void test_fallocate(int fd, size_t page_size, size_t total_size)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, 0, total_size);
+	TEST_ASSERT(!ret, "fallocate with aligned offset and size should succeed");
+
+	ret = fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE,
+			page_size - 1, page_size);
+	TEST_ASSERT(ret, "fallocate with unaligned offset should fail");
+
+	ret = fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, total_size, page_size);
+	TEST_ASSERT(ret, "fallocate beginning at total_size should fail");
+
+	ret = fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, total_size + page_size, page_size);
+	TEST_ASSERT(ret, "fallocate beginning at total_size should fail");
+
+	ret = fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE,
+			total_size, page_size);
+	TEST_ASSERT(!ret, "fallocate(PUNCH_HOLE) at total_size should succeed");
+
+	ret = fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE,
+			total_size + page_size, page_size);
+	TEST_ASSERT(!ret, "fallocate(PUNCH_HOLE) after total_size should succeed");
+
+	ret = fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE,
+			page_size, page_size - 1);
+	TEST_ASSERT(ret, "fallocate with unaligned size should fail");
+
+	ret = fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE,
+			page_size, page_size);
+	TEST_ASSERT(!ret, "fallocate(PUNCH_HOLE) with aligned offset and size should succeed");
+
+	ret = fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, page_size, page_size);
+	TEST_ASSERT(!ret, "fallocate to restore punched hole should succeed");
+}
+
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	size_t page_size;
+	size_t total_size;
+	int fd;
+	struct kvm_vm *vm;
+
+	page_size = getpagesize();
+	total_size = page_size * 4;
+
+	vm = vm_create_barebones();
+
+	fd = vm_create_guest_memfd(vm, total_size, 0);
+
+	test_file_read_write(fd);
+	test_mmap(fd, page_size);
+	test_file_size(fd, page_size, total_size);
+	test_fallocate(fd, page_size, total_size);
+
+	close(fd);
+}
