diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/cma/process_vm_readv03.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/cma/process_vm_readv03.c
index 2333f7fd6..d46914356 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/cma/process_vm_readv03.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/cma/process_vm_readv03.c
@@ -1,274 +1,229 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 /*
  * Copyright (c) International Business Machines  Corp., 2012
  * Copyright (c) Linux Test Project, 2012
+ * Copyright (C) 2021 SUSE LLC Andrea Cervesato <andrea.cervesato@suse.com>
+ */
+
+/* \
+ * [Description]
  *
- * This program is free software;  you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;  without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See
- * the GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this program;  if not, write to the Free Software
- * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+ * Fork two children, one child mallocs randomly sized trunks of memory
+ * and initializes them; the other child calls process_vm_readv with
+ * the remote iovecs initialized to the original process memory
+ * locations and the local iovecs initialized to randomly sized and
+ * allocated local memory locations. The second child then verifies
+ * that the data copied is correct.
  */
 
-#define _GNU_SOURCE
-#include <sys/types.h>
-#include <sys/uio.h>
-#include <sys/wait.h>
-#include <errno.h>
-#include <limits.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
-#include <string.h>
-#include <time.h>
-#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
 #include <limits.h>
-
-#include "test.h"
-#include "safe_macros.h"
+#include "tst_test.h"
 #include "lapi/syscalls.h"
 
-char *TCID = "process_vm_readv03";
-int TST_TOTAL = 1;
-
-#define NUM_LOCAL_VECS 4
-
-static int nflag, sflag;
-static char *nr_opt, *sz_opt;
-static option_t options[] = {
-	{"n:", &nflag, &nr_opt},
-	{"s:", &sflag, &sz_opt},
-	{NULL, NULL, NULL}
-};
-
-static int nr_iovecs;
-static long bufsz;
-static int pipe_fd[2];
-static pid_t pids[2];
-
-static void gen_random_arr(int *arr, int arr_sz);
-static void child_alloc(int *bufsz_arr);
-static void child_invoke(int *bufsz_arr);
-static long *fetch_remote_addrs(void);
-static void setup(void);
-static void cleanup(void);
-static void help(void);
-
-int main(int argc, char **argv)
-{
-	int lc, status;
-	int *bufsz_arr;
-
-	tst_parse_opts(argc, argv, options, &help);
-
-	setup();
-	for (lc = 0; TEST_LOOPING(lc); lc++) {
-		tst_count = 0;
-
-		SAFE_PIPE(cleanup, pipe_fd);
-
-		bufsz_arr = SAFE_MALLOC(cleanup, nr_iovecs * sizeof(int));
-		gen_random_arr(bufsz_arr, nr_iovecs);
-
-		/* the start of child_alloc and child_invoke is already
-		 * synchronized via pipe */
-		pids[0] = fork();
-		switch (pids[0]) {
-		case -1:
-			tst_brkm(TBROK | TERRNO, cleanup, "fork #0");
-		case 0:
-			child_alloc(bufsz_arr);
-			exit(0);
-		}
-
-		pids[1] = fork();
-		switch (pids[1]) {
-		case -1:
-			tst_brkm(TBROK | TERRNO, cleanup, "fork #1");
-		case 0:
-			child_invoke(bufsz_arr);
-			exit(0);
-		}
-
-		/* wait until child_invoke reads from child_alloc's VM */
-		SAFE_WAITPID(cleanup, pids[1], &status, 0);
-		if (!WIFEXITED(status) || WEXITSTATUS(status) != 0)
-			tst_resm(TFAIL, "child 1 returns %d", status);
-
-		/* child_alloc is free to exit now */
-		TST_SAFE_CHECKPOINT_WAKE(cleanup, 0);
+static uintptr_t *data_ptr;
 
-		SAFE_WAITPID(cleanup, pids[0], &status, 0);
-		if (!WIFEXITED(status) || WEXITSTATUS(status) != 0)
-			tst_resm(TFAIL, "child 0 returns %d", status);
+static char *str_buffsize;
+static char *str_nr_iovecs;
 
-		free(bufsz_arr);
-	}
-
-	cleanup();
-	tst_exit();
-}
+static int bufsize = 100000;
+static int nriovecs = 10;
 
-static void gen_random_arr(int *arr, int arr_sz)
+static void create_data_size(int *arr, int arr_sz, int buffsize)
 {
 	long bufsz_left, bufsz_single;
 	int i;
 
-	bufsz_left = bufsz;
+	bufsz_left = buffsize;
 	for (i = 0; i < arr_sz - 1; i++) {
-		bufsz_single = rand() % (bufsz_left / 2) + 1;
+		bufsz_single = rand() % ((bufsz_left / 2) + 1);
 		arr[i] = bufsz_single;
 		bufsz_left -= bufsz_single;
 	}
+
 	arr[arr_sz - 1] = bufsz_left;
 }
 
-static void child_alloc(int *bufsz_arr)
+static void child_alloc(const int *sizes, int nr_iovecs)
 {
 	char **foo;
 	int i, j;
-	char buf[BUFSIZ];
 	long count;
 
-	foo = SAFE_MALLOC(tst_exit, nr_iovecs * sizeof(char *));
+	foo = SAFE_MALLOC(nr_iovecs * sizeof(int *));
 
 	count = 0;
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_iovecs; i++) {
-		foo[i] = SAFE_MALLOC(tst_exit, bufsz_arr[i]);
-		for (j = 0; j < bufsz_arr[i]; j++) {
+		foo[i] = SAFE_MALLOC(sizes[i]);
+		for (j = 0; j < sizes[i]; j++) {
 			foo[i][j] = count % 256;
 			count++;
 		}
 	}
-	tst_resm(TINFO, "child 0: %d iovecs allocated and initialized.",
-		 nr_iovecs);
 
-	/* passing addr via pipe */
-	SAFE_CLOSE(tst_exit, pipe_fd[0]);
-	snprintf(buf, BUFSIZ, "%p", (void *)foo);
-	SAFE_WRITE(tst_exit, 1, pipe_fd[1], buf, strlen(buf) + 1);
-	SAFE_CLOSE(tst_exit, pipe_fd[1]);
+	*data_ptr = (uintptr_t)foo;
+
+	tst_res(TINFO, "child 0: memory allocated and initialized");
 
-	/* wait until child_invoke is done reading from our VM */
-	TST_SAFE_CHECKPOINT_WAIT(cleanup, 0);
+	/* wake and wait until child_invoke is done reading from our VM */
+	TST_CHECKPOINT_WAKE_AND_WAIT(0);
 }
 
-static long *fetch_remote_addrs(void)
+static long *fetch_remote_addrs(int nr_iovecs, pid_t pid_alloc)
 {
-	long *foo, *bar;
-	char buf[BUFSIZ];
+	long *bar;
 	long len;
 	struct iovec local, remote;
 
-	/* get addr from pipe */
-	SAFE_CLOSE(tst_exit, pipe_fd[1]);
-	SAFE_READ(tst_exit, 0, pipe_fd[0], buf, BUFSIZ);
-	SAFE_CLOSE(tst_exit, pipe_fd[0]);
-	if (sscanf(buf, "%p", &foo) != 1)
-		tst_brkm(TBROK | TERRNO, tst_exit, "sscanf");
-
 	len = nr_iovecs * sizeof(long);
-	bar = SAFE_MALLOC(tst_exit, len);
+	bar = SAFE_MALLOC(len);
 	local.iov_base = bar;
 	local.iov_len = len;
-	remote.iov_base = foo;
+	remote.iov_base = (void *)*data_ptr;
 	remote.iov_len = len;
 
-	TEST(tst_syscall(__NR_process_vm_readv, pids[0], &local,
-			 1UL, &remote, 1UL, 0UL));
-	if (TEST_RETURN != len)
-		tst_brkm(TFAIL | TTERRNO, tst_exit, "process_vm_readv");
+	TEST(tst_syscall(__NR_process_vm_readv, pid_alloc, &local, 1UL, &remote,
+					 1UL, 0UL));
+	if (TST_RET != len)
+		tst_brk(TBROK, "process_vm_readv");
 
 	return local.iov_base;
 }
 
-static void child_invoke(int *bufsz_arr)
+static void child_invoke(const int *sizes, int nr_iovecs, pid_t pid_alloc,
+						 int buffsize)
 {
-	int i, j, count, nr_error;
+	const int num_local_vecs = 4;
+	struct iovec local[num_local_vecs];
+	struct iovec remote[nr_iovecs];
+	int i, j;
+	int count;
+	int nr_error;
+	int *local_sizes;
 	unsigned char expect, actual;
 	long *addrs;
-	struct iovec local[NUM_LOCAL_VECS], *remote;
-	int rcv_arr[NUM_LOCAL_VECS];
 
-	addrs = fetch_remote_addrs();
+	addrs = fetch_remote_addrs(nr_iovecs, pid_alloc);
 
-	remote = SAFE_MALLOC(tst_exit, nr_iovecs * sizeof(struct iovec));
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_iovecs; i++) {
 		remote[i].iov_base = (void *)addrs[i];
-		remote[i].iov_len = bufsz_arr[i];
+		remote[i].iov_len = sizes[i];
 	}
-	tst_resm(TINFO, "child 1: %d remote iovecs received.", nr_iovecs);
 
-	gen_random_arr(rcv_arr, NUM_LOCAL_VECS);
-	for (i = 0; i < NUM_LOCAL_VECS; i++) {
-		local[i].iov_base = SAFE_MALLOC(tst_exit, rcv_arr[i]);
-		local[i].iov_len = rcv_arr[i];
+	/* use different buffer sizes for local memory */
+	local_sizes = SAFE_MALLOC(num_local_vecs * sizeof(int));
+	create_data_size(local_sizes, num_local_vecs, buffsize);
+	for (i = 0; i < num_local_vecs; i++) {
+		local[i].iov_base = SAFE_MALLOC(local_sizes[i]);
+		local[i].iov_len = local_sizes[i];
 	}
-	tst_resm(TINFO, "child 1: %d local iovecs initialized.",
-		 NUM_LOCAL_VECS);
 
-	TEST(tst_syscall(__NR_process_vm_readv, pids[0], local,
-			    (unsigned long)NUM_LOCAL_VECS, remote,
-			    (unsigned long)nr_iovecs, 0UL));
-	if (TEST_RETURN != bufsz)
-		tst_brkm(TBROK | TTERRNO, tst_exit, "process_vm_readv");
+	tst_res(TINFO, "child 1: reading string from same memory location");
+
+	TEST(tst_syscall(__NR_process_vm_readv, pid_alloc, local, num_local_vecs,
+					 remote, nr_iovecs, 0UL));
+
+	if (TST_RET < 0)
+		tst_brk(TBROK, "process_vm_readv: %s", tst_strerrno(-TST_RET));
+
+	if (TST_RET != buffsize)
+		tst_brk(TBROK, "process_vm_readv: expected %d bytes but got %ld",
+				buffsize, TST_RET);
 
 	/* verify every byte */
 	count = 0;
 	nr_error = 0;
-	for (i = 0; i < NUM_LOCAL_VECS; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < num_local_vecs; i++) {
 		for (j = 0; j < (int)local[i].iov_len; j++) {
 			expect = count % 256;
 			actual = ((unsigned char *)local[i].iov_base)[j];
-			if (expect != actual) {
-#if DEBUG
-				tst_resm(TFAIL, "child 1: expected %i, got %i "
-					 "for byte seq %d",
-					 expect, actual, count);
-#endif
+			if (expect != actual)
 				nr_error++;
-			}
+
 			count++;
 		}
 	}
+
 	if (nr_error)
-		tst_brkm(TFAIL, tst_exit, "child 1: %d incorrect bytes "
-			 "received.", nr_error);
+		tst_brk(TFAIL, "child 1: %d incorrect bytes received", nr_error);
 	else
-		tst_resm(TPASS, "child 1: all bytes are correctly received.");
+		tst_res(TPASS, "child 1: all bytes are correctly received");
 }
 
 static void setup(void)
 {
-	tst_require_root();
+	int iov_max;
 
 	/* Just a sanity check of the existence of syscall */
 	tst_syscall(__NR_process_vm_readv, getpid(), NULL, 0UL, NULL, 0UL, 0UL);
 
-	nr_iovecs = nflag ? SAFE_STRTOL(NULL, nr_opt, 1, IOV_MAX) : 10;
-	bufsz = sflag ? SAFE_STRTOL(NULL, sz_opt, NUM_LOCAL_VECS, LONG_MAX)
-	    : 100000;
+	if (tst_parse_int(str_buffsize, &bufsize, 4, INT_MAX))
+		tst_brk(TBROK, "Invalid buffer size '%s'", str_buffsize);
 
-	tst_tmpdir();
-	TST_CHECKPOINT_INIT(cleanup);
-	srand(time(NULL));
+	iov_max = SAFE_SYSCONF(_SC_IOV_MAX);
+	if (tst_parse_int(str_nr_iovecs, &nriovecs, 1, iov_max))
+		tst_brk(TBROK, "Invalid IO vectors '%s'", str_nr_iovecs);
 
-	TEST_PAUSE;
+	data_ptr = SAFE_MMAP(NULL, sizeof(uintptr_t), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+						 MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
 }
 
 static void cleanup(void)
 {
-	tst_rmdir();
+	if (data_ptr)
+		SAFE_MUNMAP(data_ptr, sizeof(uintptr_t));
 }
 
-static void help(void)
+static void run(void)
 {
-	printf("    -n NUM  Set the number of iovecs to be allocated.\n");
-	printf("    -s NUM  Set the size of total buffer size.\n");
+	pid_t pid_alloc;
+	pid_t pid_invoke;
+	int status;
+	int *sizes;
+
+	/* create random iovec data size */
+	sizes = SAFE_MALLOC(nriovecs * sizeof(int));
+	create_data_size(sizes, nriovecs, bufsize);
+
+	pid_alloc = SAFE_FORK();
+	if (!pid_alloc) {
+		child_alloc(sizes, nriovecs);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	TST_CHECKPOINT_WAIT(0);
+
+	pid_invoke = SAFE_FORK();
+	if (!pid_invoke) {
+		child_invoke(sizes, nriovecs, pid_alloc, bufsize);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	/* wait until child_invoke reads from child_alloc's VM */
+	SAFE_WAITPID(pid_invoke, &status, 0);
+	if (!WIFEXITED(status) || WEXITSTATUS(status) != 0)
+		tst_res(TFAIL, "child 1: returns %d", status);
+
+	/* child_alloc is free to exit now */
+	TST_CHECKPOINT_WAKE(0);
+
+	SAFE_WAITPID(pid_alloc, &status, 0);
+	if (!WIFEXITED(status) || WEXITSTATUS(status) != 0)
+		tst_res(TFAIL, "child 0: returns %d", status);
 }
+
+static struct tst_test test = {
+	.test_all = run,
+	.setup = setup,
+	.cleanup = cleanup,
+	.forks_child = 1,
+	.needs_checkpoints = 1,
+	.options = (struct tst_option[]) {
+		{"s:", &str_buffsize, "Total buffer size (default 100000)"},
+		{"n:", &str_nr_iovecs, "Number of iovecs to be allocated (default 10)"},
+		{},
+	},
+};
