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@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Christian Brauner
2025-04-16 22:05:40 +02:00
parent 0a36bad017
commit b590c928cc
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@@ -1893,8 +1893,16 @@ 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))) {