Re: NetworkManager fails to start

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 9:21 AM Leon Romanovsky leon@kernel.org wrote:

The commit 591a22c14d3f ("proc: Track /proc/$pid/attr/ opener mm_struct") that we got in v5.13-rc6 broke our regression to pieces. The NIC interfaces fail to start when using NetworkManager.

Does the attached patch fix it?

It just makes the open always succeed, and then the private_data that the open did (that may or may not then have been filled in) is only used on write.

Linus