On 2020-01-17, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 08:29:27AM -0800, Sargun Dhillon wrote:
> > +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(pidfd_getfd, int, pidfd, int, fd,
> > + unsigned int, flags)
> > +{
> > + struct pid *pid;
> > + struct fd f;
> > + int ret;
> > +
> > + /* flags is currently unused - make sure it's unset */
> > + if (flags)
> > + return -EINVAL;
>
> Is EINVAL the right errno here? Often we use ENOSYS for bad flags to
> syscalls.
I don't think that's right -- every syscall I've seen gives you -EINVAL
for invalid flags (not to mention -ENOSYS would mean userspace would be
confused as to whether the syscall is actually supported by the kernel).
--
Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
<https://www.cyphar.com/>
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