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procfs: make errno values consistent when open pident vs exit(2) race…
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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 <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored and Linus Torvalds committed May 29, 2009
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion fs/proc/base.c
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Expand Up @@ -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)
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