linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] samples: make pidfd-metadata fail gracefully on older kernels

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Date:   Sun, 23 Jun 2019 14:28:00 +0300
From:   "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
Cc:     Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] samples: make pidfd-metadata fail gracefully on older
 kernels

Initialize pidfd to an invalid descriptor, to fail gracefully on
those kernels that do not implement CLONE_PIDFD and leave pidfd
unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@...linux.org>
---
 samples/pidfd/pidfd-metadata.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/samples/pidfd/pidfd-metadata.c b/samples/pidfd/pidfd-metadata.c
index 14b454448429..c459155daf9a 100644
--- a/samples/pidfd/pidfd-metadata.c
+++ b/samples/pidfd/pidfd-metadata.c
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ static int pidfd_metadata_fd(pid_t pid, int pidfd)
 
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
-	int pidfd = 0, ret = EXIT_FAILURE;
+	int pidfd = -1, ret = EXIT_FAILURE;
 	char buf[4096] = { 0 };
 	pid_t pid;
 	int procfd, statusfd;
@@ -91,7 +91,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
 	pid = pidfd_clone(CLONE_PIDFD, &pidfd);
 	if (pid < 0)
-		exit(ret);
+		err(ret, "CLONE_PIDFD");
+	if (pidfd == -1) {
+		warnx("CLONE_PIDFD is not supported by the kernel");
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 	procfd = pidfd_metadata_fd(pid, pidfd);
 	close(pidfd);
-- 
ldv