Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] signal: add procfd_signal() syscall

From: Joey Pabalinas
Date: Wed Nov 28 2018 - 16:45:42 EST


On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 11:32:39AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> + if (info) {
> + ret = __copy_siginfo_from_user(sig, &kinfo, info);
> + if (unlikely(ret))
> + goto err;

What's the reason you don't propagate up the errors from __copy_siginfo_from_user()?
Granted, I admit that -E2BIG is kind of weird to return, but -EFAULT seems like a
fairly sane error.

Or is there some reason it's more useful to just return -EINVAL for all of the
failure cases here?

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Cheers,
Joey Pabalinas

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