From df75e7748bae1c7098bfa358485389b897f71305 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:08:36 -0500 Subject: userns: When the per user per user namespace limit is reached return ENOSPC The current error codes returned when a the per user per user namespace limit are hit (EINVAL, EUSERS, and ENFILE) are wrong. I asked for advice on linux-api and it we made clear that those were the wrong error code, but a correct effor code was not suggested. The best general error code I have found for hitting a resource limit is ENOSPC. It is not perfect but as it is unambiguous it will serve until someone comes up with a better error code. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- kernel/pid_namespace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/pid_namespace.c') diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c index 30a7f3351932..7542b28cc929 100644 --- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c +++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(struct user_namespace *user_ns int i; int err; - err = -EINVAL; + err = -ENOSPC; if (level > MAX_PID_NS_LEVEL) goto out; ucounts = inc_pid_namespaces(user_ns); -- cgit