[Devel] [PATCH RHEL10 COMMIT] ms/net, pidfd: report EINVAL for ESRCH
Konstantin Khorenko
khorenko at virtuozzo.com
Mon Aug 24 15:05:15 MSK 2026
The commit is pushed to "branch-rh10-6.12.0-211.39.1.16.x.vz10-ovz" and will appear at git at bitbucket.org:openvz/vzkernel.git
after rh10-6.12.0-211.39.1.16.8.vz10
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commit 24567fd12e301d424740a02cfbf67f761cb6b74d
Author: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>
Date: Wed Apr 16 22:05:40 2025 +0200
ms/net, pidfd: report EINVAL for ESRCH
dbus-broker relies -EINVAL being returned to indicate ESRCH in [1].
This causes issues for some workloads as reported in [2].
Paper over it until this is fixed in userspace.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250416-gegriffen-tiefbau-70cfecb80ac8@brauner
Link: https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/blob/5d34d91b138fc802a016aa68c093eb81ea31139c/src/util/sockopt.c#L241 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250415223454.GA1852104@ax162 [2]
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit b590c928cca7bdc7fd580d52e42bfdc3ac5eeacb)
https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-142602
Feature: fix ms/net
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko at virtuozzo.com>
---
net/core/sock.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 7152c2f70792..5281899aaafd 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -1914,8 +1914,16 @@ int sk_getsockopt(struct sock *sk, int level, int optname,
pidfd = pidfd_prepare(peer_pid, 0, &pidfd_file);
put_pid(peer_pid);
- if (pidfd < 0)
+ if (pidfd < 0) {
+ /*
+ * dbus-broker relies on -EINVAL being returned
+ * to indicate ESRCH. Paper over it until this
+ * is fixed in userspace.
+ */
+ if (pidfd == -ESRCH)
+ pidfd = -EINVAL;
return pidfd;
+ }
if (copy_to_sockptr(optval, &pidfd, len) ||
copy_to_sockptr(optlen, &len, sizeof(int))) {
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