diff --git a/tests/kfdtest/src/KFDLocalMemoryTest.cpp b/tests/kfdtest/src/KFDLocalMemoryTest.cpp
index 0af52e9d8e..4c86594ab9 100644
--- a/tests/kfdtest/src/KFDLocalMemoryTest.cpp
+++ b/tests/kfdtest/src/KFDLocalMemoryTest.cpp
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ TEST_F(KFDLocalMemoryTest, VerifyContentsAfterUnmapAndMap) {
     HsaMemoryBuffer isaBuffer(PAGE_SIZE, defaultGPUNode);
     HsaMemoryBuffer SysBufferA(BufferSize, defaultGPUNode, false);
     HsaMemoryBuffer SysBufferB(BufferSize, defaultGPUNode, true);
-    HsaMemoryBuffer LocalBuffer(BufferSize, defaultGPUNode, true, true);
+    HsaMemoryBuffer LocalBuffer(BufferSize, defaultGPUNode, false, true);
 
     SysBufferA.Fill(0x01010101);
 
diff --git a/tests/kfdtest/src/KFDTestUtil.cpp b/tests/kfdtest/src/KFDTestUtil.cpp
index d1e398fa1b..9383c31002 100644
--- a/tests/kfdtest/src/KFDTestUtil.cpp
+++ b/tests/kfdtest/src/KFDTestUtil.cpp
@@ -197,6 +197,9 @@ HsaMemoryBuffer::HsaMemoryBuffer(HSAuint64 size, unsigned int node, bool zero, b
     if (isReadOnly)
         m_Flags.ui32.ReadOnly = 1;
 
+    if (zero)
+        EXPECT_EQ(m_Flags.ui32.HostAccess, 1);
+
     EXPECT_SUCCESS(hsaKmtAllocMemory(m_Node, m_Size, m_Flags, &m_pBuf));
     if (is_dgpu()) {
         if (map_specific_gpu)