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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] pid: Fix error return value in some cases
On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 11:23:14AM -0600, minyard@acm.org wrote:
> From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
>
> Recent changes to alloc_pid() allow the pid number to be specified on
> the command line. If set_tid_size is set, then the code scanning the
> levels will hard-set retval to -EPERM, overriding it's previous -ENOMEM
> value.
>
> After the code scanning the levels, there are error returns that do not
> set retval, assuming it is still set to -ENOMEM.
>
> So set retval back to -ENOMEM after scanning the levels.
>
> Fixes: 49cb2fc42ce4 "fork: extend clone3() to support setting a PID"
> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.5
> Cc: Adrian Reber <areber@redhat.com>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
> Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>

Thanks! I've pulled the patch now and applied.

I think that restores the old behavior. If you don't mind, I'll add a
comment on top of it saying something like:
"ENOMEM is not the most obvious choice but it's the what we've been
exposing to userspace for a long time and it's also documented
behavior. So we can't easily change it to something more sensible."

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>

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