Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] pidfs: ensure consistent ENOENT/ESRCH reporting

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Wed Apr 16 2025 - 17:15:45 EST


On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 10:21:02PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Ok, I think I understand how this happens. dbus-broker assumes that
> only EINVAL is reported by SO_PEERPIDFD when a process is reaped:
>
> https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/blob/5d34d91b138fc802a016aa68c093eb81ea31139c/src/util/sockopt.c#L241
>
> It would be great if it would also allow for ESRCH which is the correct
> error code anyway. So hopefully we'll get that fixed in userspace. For
> now we paper over this in the kernel in the SO_PEERPIDFD code.
>
> Can you please test vfs-6.16.pidfs again. It has the patch I'm
> appending.

Yes, that appears to work fine for me, thanks for the quick fix!

If it would be helpful:

Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
Nathan