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authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>2009-05-28 14:34:21 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-05-29 08:40:02 -0700
commitbd6daba909d8484bd2ccf6017db4028d7a420927 (patch)
treee5c5fa2ddb9b3658a24c15ca4050c71f68dc634f /fs/proc
parentb2e1feaf0af6b8a826b86748a19ddc2013ab7dbd (diff)
downloadlinux-bd6daba909d8484bd2ccf6017db4028d7a420927.tar.bz2
procfs: make errno values consistent when open pident vs exit(2) race occurs
proc_pident_instantiate() has following call flow. proc_pident_lookup() proc_pident_instantiate() proc_pid_make_inode() And, proc_pident_lookup() has following error handling. const struct pid_entry *p, *last; error = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); if (!task) goto out_no_task; Then, proc_pident_instantiate should return ENOENT too when racing against exit(2) occur. EINAL has two bad reason. - it implies caller is wrong. bad the race isn't caller's mistake. - man 2 open don't explain EINVAL. user often don't handle it. Note: Other proc_pid_make_inode() caller already use ENOENT properly. Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/base.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index fb45615943c2..3326bbf9ab95 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1956,7 +1956,7 @@ static struct dentry *proc_pident_instantiate(struct inode *dir,
const struct pid_entry *p = ptr;
struct inode *inode;
struct proc_inode *ei;
- struct dentry *error = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ struct dentry *error = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
inode = proc_pid_make_inode(dir->i_sb, task);
if (!inode)