diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c
index 93eae095b61e6..7495834180cec 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ static bool test_uffdio_wp = false;
 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;
@@ -277,8 +278,11 @@ static void shmem_release_pages(char *rel_area)
 
 static void shmem_allocate_area(void **alloc_area)
 {
+	unsigned long offset =
+		alloc_area == (void **)&area_src ? 0 : nr_pages * page_size;
+
 	*alloc_area = mmap(NULL, nr_pages * page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
-			   MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED, -1, 0);
+			   MAP_SHARED, shm_fd, offset);
 	if (*alloc_area == MAP_FAILED)
 		err("mmap of memfd failed");
 }
@@ -1602,6 +1606,16 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 			err("Open of %s failed", argv[4]);
 		if (ftruncate(huge_fd, 0))
 			err("ftruncate %s to size 0 failed", argv[4]);
+	} else if (test_type == TEST_SHMEM) {
+		shm_fd = memfd_create(argv[0], 0);
+		if (shm_fd < 0)
+			err("memfd_create");
+		if (ftruncate(shm_fd, nr_pages * page_size * 2))
+			err("ftruncate");
+		if (fallocate(shm_fd,
+			      FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, 0,
+			      nr_pages * page_size * 2))
+			err("fallocate");
 	}
 	printf("nr_pages: %lu, nr_pages_per_cpu: %lu\n",
 	       nr_pages, nr_pages_per_cpu);