[Bug 1903351] Re: ignore_eacces and ignore_erofs patches don't work properly

[Mathew Hodson]

** Changed in: procps (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Also affects: procps (Ubuntu Focal)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: procps (Ubuntu Groovy)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: procps (Ubuntu Focal)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: procps (Ubuntu Groovy)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  ignore_eacces and ignore_erofs patches don't work properly

Status in procps package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in procps source package in Focal:
  New
Status in procps source package in Groovy:
  New

Bug description:
  The patches used to ignore errors in containers no longer work as of
  3.3.16 due to upstream commit https://gitlab.com/procps-
  ng/procps/-/commit/7af88da373bb4d515a98ec2f0f5d56c63904f932

  The ignore_eacces patch was fuzzed and gets applied to ReadSetting, not WriteSetting
  Both patches ignore the change that rc is no longer propagated up and instead everything is trapped by:

                  if (!ignore_failure && errno != ENOENT)
                      rc = -1;

  
  Versions affected: focal+

  
  root at bfee89058713:/tmp# cat /etc/os-release 
  NAME="Ubuntu"
  VERSION="20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)"
  ID=ubuntu
  ID_LIKE=debian
  PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 20.10"
  VERSION_ID="20.10"
  HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
  SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
  BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
  PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
  VERSION_CODENAME=groovy
  UBUNTU_CODENAME=groovy

  
  root at bfee89058713:/# dpkg -l procps
  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name           Version           Architecture Description
  +++-==============-=================-============-=================================
  ii  procps         2:3.3.16-5ubuntu2 amd64        /proc file system utilities

  
  root at bfee89058713:/# echo "kernel.shmmax = 17179869184" > shmmax.conf
  root at bfee89058713:/# sysctl -e -p shmmax.conf; echo $?
  sysctl: setting key "kernel.shmmax": Read-only file system
  255
  root at bfee89058713:/# echo "-kernel.shmmax = 17179869184" > shmmax.conf
  root at bfee89058713:/# sysctl -e -p shmmax.conf; echo $?
  sysctl: setting key "kernel.shmmax": Read-only file system
  0

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