From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 21:34:21 +0000 (-0700) Subject: procfs: make errno values consistent when open pident vs exit(2) race occurs X-Git-Tag: v2.6.30-rc8~38 X-Git-Url: http://bbs.cooldavid.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bd6daba909d8484bd2ccf6017db4028d7a420927;p=net-next-2.6.git 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 Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index fb45615943c..3326bbf9ab9 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)