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The alloc_pid() codepath used to be simpler. With the introducation of the ability to choose specific pids in49cb2fc42c("fork: extend clone3() to support setting a PID") it got more complex. It hasn't been super obvious that ENOMEM is returned when the pid namespace init process/child subreaper of the pid namespace has died. As can be seen from multiple attempts to improve this see e.g. [1] and most recently [2]. We regressed returning ENOMEM in [3] and [2] restored it. Let's add a comment on top explaining that this is historic and documented behavior and cannot easily be changed. [1]:35f71bc0a0("fork: report pid reservation failure properly") [2]:b26ebfe12f("pid: Fix error return value in some cases") [3]:49cb2fc42c("fork: extend clone3() to support setting a PID") Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
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