Re: [PATCH] man/man2/memfd_secret.2: tfix

Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:08:50 +0200

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.linux-man
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Hi Štěpán,

On 2026-07-13T14:11:11+0200, Štěpán Němec wrote:
> Fixes: ac5edfeb1dd6 (2021-08-27; "memfd_secret.2: New page describing memfd_secret() system call")
> Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <[email protected]>
> ---
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:44:19 +0200
> Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> 
> > I think I'd fix this typo in a separate commit, since it's a meaningful
> > typo (both EMFILE and ENFILE exist, and they have a slightly different
> > meaning).
> >
> > In the fix, please include the following tags:
> >
> > 	Fixes: ac5edfeb1dd6 (2021-08-27; "memfd_secret.2: New page describing memfd_secret() system call")
> > 	Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> FWIW, out of abundance of caution (admittedly verging on paranoia), I
> did verify that unprivileged memfd_secret distinguished EMFILE and
> ENFILE as expected (brought about by setrlimit for the former and
> limiting fs.file-max for the latter in a VM running a recent alpine-edge
> image) before sending the original patch, but the hypothesis that this
> was anything other than a typo or a copy-paste error seemed too
> far-fetched to mention that.

Thanks!  I've applied the patch.


Have a lovely day!
Alex

> 
>  man/man2/memfd_secret.2 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man2/memfd_secret.2 b/man/man2/memfd_secret.2
> index 0ea4b8e93c37..4033adc75772 100644
> --- a/man/man2/memfd_secret.2
> +++ b/man/man2/memfd_secret.2
> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ .SH ERRORS
>  .B EMFILE
>  The per-process limit on the number of open file descriptors has been reached.
>  .TP
> -.B EMFILE
> +.B ENFILE
>  The system-wide limit on the total number of open files has been reached.
>  .TP
>  .B ENOMEM
> 
> -- 
> 2.55.0
> 
> 

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