Re: [PATCH 09/15] clone.2: ERRORS: Add EACCESS with CLONE_INTO_CGROUP + clone3

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On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 12:47:10AM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> [Andrew]:
> I noticed that clone3 can send the EACCES errno after I wrote a
> program that used clone3 with the CLONE_INTO_CGROUP flag.
> To me, it's important to know what kind of failure occurred if the
> clone3() fails, so I was glad that a unique errno is set for
> this case, but it wasn't documented on the clone man page.
> 
> [Christian]:

Hey Alejandro,

I was on vacation last week so just catching up with mails now.

> In essence, any error that could occur during regular fs-based migration
> at write-time can also occur during CLONE_INTO_CGROUP. The clone3()
> manpage just has the inverse of that above statement:
> 
> "Note that all of the usual restrictions (described in cgroups(7)) on
> placing a process into a version 2 cgroup apply."
> 
> Reported-by: Andrew Wock <ajwock@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Thanks for picking that up.
Christian



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