Re: [PATCH] fs: proc: fix error return code of proc_map_files_readdir()

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 10:30:23AM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 01:55:27AM -0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> > When get_task_mm() returns NULL to mm, no error return code of
> > proc_map_files_readdir() is assigned.
> > To fix this bug, ret is assigned with -ENOENT in this case.

> > --- a/fs/proc/base.c
> > +++ b/fs/proc/base.c
> > @@ -2332,8 +2332,10 @@ proc_map_files_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
> >  		goto out_put_task;
> >  
> >  	mm = get_task_mm(task);
> > -	if (!mm)
> > +	if (!mm) {
> > +		ret = -ENOENT;
> >  		goto out_put_task;
> > +	}
> >  
> >  	ret = mmap_read_lock_killable(mm);
> 
> Is there something in particular that makes you think that returning ENOENT is
> the correct behavior in this case?  Try 'ls /proc/$pid/map_files' where pid is a
> kernel thread; it's an empty directory, which is probably intentional.  Your
> patch would change reading the directory to fail with ENOENT.

Yes. 0 from readdir means "no more stuff", not an error.