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Diffstat (limited to 'libpod/lock/shm/shm_lock.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | libpod/lock/shm/shm_lock.go | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libpod/lock/shm/shm_lock.go b/libpod/lock/shm/shm_lock.go index 322e92a8f..fea02a619 100644 --- a/libpod/lock/shm/shm_lock.go +++ b/libpod/lock/shm/shm_lock.go @@ -130,8 +130,17 @@ func (locks *SHMLocks) AllocateSemaphore() (uint32, error) { // semaphore indexes, and can still return error codes. retCode := C.allocate_semaphore(locks.lockStruct) if retCode < 0 { + var err = syscall.Errno(-1 * retCode) // Negative errno returned - return 0, syscall.Errno(-1 * retCode) + if errors.Is(err, syscall.ENOSPC) { + // ENOSPC expands to "no space left on device". While it is technically true + // that there's no room in the SHM inn for this lock, this tends to send normal people + // down the path of checking disk-space which is not actually their problem. + // Give a clue that it's actually due to num_locks filling up. + var errFull = errors.Errorf("allocation failed; exceeded num_locks (%d)", locks.maxLocks) + return uint32(retCode), errFull + } + return uint32(retCode), syscall.Errno(-1 * retCode) } return uint32(retCode), nil |