[PATCH 02/13] Update PIDFD_* constants for Linux 6.17

Yury Khrustalev yury.khrustalev@arm.com
Thu Nov 20 09:12:46 GMT 2025


On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 09:56:43AM +0000, Yury Khrustalev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 04:30:15PM +0100, Adhemerval Zanella Netto wrote:
> > 
> > On 06/11/25 15:59, Yury Khrustalev wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 04:38:53PM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> > >> The pidfd interface was extended with:
> > >>
> > >> ...
> > > 
> > > The misc/tst-pidfd_getinfo test fails with
> > > 
> > >   error: ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tst-pidfd_getinfo.c:52: ioctl (PIDFD_GET_INFO) failed: Invalid argument
> > > 
> > > on aarch64 with kernel 6.12 and passes on a system with kernel 6.17 and 6.18.
> > 
> > I had the impression ENOTTY was the error code in this case, on 6.1.0:
> > 
> > $ strace -f misc/tst-pidfd_getinfo --direct
> > [...]
> > ioctl(3, _IOC(_IOC_READ|_IOC_WRITE, 0xff, 0xb, 0x48), 0x7ffe475d4670) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
> > [...]
> > 
> > If EINVAL is also a possible error we might need to also handle it.
> 
> On system with 6.12 I get:
> 
>   $ strace -e trace=ioctl -ff ./misc/tst-pidfd_getinfo 
>   strace: Process 4177312 attached
>   [pid 4177312] ioctl(3, _IOC(_IOC_READ|_IOC_WRITE, 0xff, 0xb, 0x48), 0xffffdda3a3a8) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
>   error: ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tst-pidfd_getinfo.c:52: ioctl (PIDFD_GET_INFO) failed: Invalid argument
>   [pid 4177312] +++ exited with 1 +++
>   --- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=4177312, si_uid=1000, si_status=1, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} ---
>   error: 1 test failures
>   +++ exited with 1 +++
> 
> And on system with 6.17 I get:
> 
>   $ strace -e trace=ioctl -ff ./misc/tst-pidfd_getinfo
>   strace: Process 5279 attached
>   [pid  5279] ioctl(3, PIDFD_GET_INFO, 0xfffffffff308) = 0
>   [pid  5279] +++ exited with 0 +++
>   --- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=5279, si_uid=1000, si_status=0, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} ---
>   +++ exited with 0 +++
> 
> So, I think that the test should expect EINVAL for an unsupported flag,
> in which case the test should be UNSUPPORTED.

Is there a BZ for this? I can send a patch with a fix if this helps.

Thanks,
Yury


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