linux-kernel - Re: Odd ENOMEM being returned in 3.8-rcX

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Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:57:01 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Odd ENOMEM being returned in 3.8-rcX

On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:13:09 -0800
ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> If mock has called unshare(CLONE_NEWPID). And then forked a process and
> that process exited, and then forked anothe process that second and all
> subsequent fork calls will fail with -ENOMEM (because init has exited in
> the pid namespace).  -ENOMEM will be generated because of a failure of
> alloc_pid.

Can we please fix this?  The system is *not* out of memory and it's
wildly misleading to report this to userspace.

If alloc_pid() can fail for multiple reasons then it should be
returning an ERR_PTR on failure, not NULL.

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