diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/hugetlb_vs_thp_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/hugetlb_vs_thp_test.c
index 3d8e5b033e1d..49003674de4f 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/hugetlb_vs_thp_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/hugetlb_vs_thp_test.c
@@ -21,9 +21,13 @@ static int test_body(void)
 		 * Typically the mmap will fail because no huge pages are
 		 * allocated on the system. But if there are huge pages
 		 * allocated the mmap will succeed. That's fine too, we just
-		 * munmap here before continuing.
+		 * munmap here before continuing.  munmap() length of
+		 * MAP_HUGETLB memory must be hugepage aligned.
 		 */
-		munmap(addr, SIZE);
+		if (munmap(addr, SIZE)) {
+			perror("munmap");
+			return 1;
+		}
 	}
 
 	p = mmap(addr, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugetlbfstest.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugetlbfstest.c
index ea40ff8c2391..02e1072ec187 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugetlbfstest.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugetlbfstest.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ static void do_mmap(int fd, int extra_flags, int unmap)
 	int *p;
 	int flags = MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_POPULATE | extra_flags;
 	u64 before, after;
+	int ret;
 
 	before = read_rss();
 	p = mmap(NULL, length, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, flags, fd, 0);
@@ -44,7 +45,8 @@ static void do_mmap(int fd, int extra_flags, int unmap)
 			!"rss didn't grow as expected");
 	if (!unmap)
 		return;
-	munmap(p, length);
+	ret = munmap(p, length);
+	assert(!ret || !"munmap returned an unexpected error");
 	after = read_rss();
 	assert(llabs(after - before) < 0x40000 ||
 			!"rss didn't shrink as expected");
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/map_hugetlb.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/map_hugetlb.c
index ac56639dd4a9..addcd6fc1ecc 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/map_hugetlb.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/map_hugetlb.c
@@ -73,7 +73,11 @@ int main(void)
 	write_bytes(addr);
 	ret = read_bytes(addr);
 
-	munmap(addr, LENGTH);
+	/* munmap() length of MAP_HUGETLB memory must be hugepage aligned */
+	if (munmap(addr, LENGTH)) {
+		perror("munmap");
+		exit(1);
+	}
 
 	return ret;
 }