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-rw-r--r--pkg/sentry/memutil/memutil_unsafe.go14
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/sentry/memutil/memutil_unsafe.go b/pkg/sentry/memutil/memutil_unsafe.go
index 8d9fc64fb..bc2c72f55 100644
--- a/pkg/sentry/memutil/memutil_unsafe.go
+++ b/pkg/sentry/memutil/memutil_unsafe.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
package memutil
import (
+ "fmt"
"syscall"
"unsafe"
@@ -22,14 +23,17 @@ import (
)
// CreateMemFD creates a memfd file and returns the fd.
-func CreateMemFD(name string, flags int) (fd int, err error) {
+func CreateMemFD(name string, flags int) (int, error) {
p, err := syscall.BytePtrFromString(name)
if err != nil {
return -1, err
}
- r0, _, e0 := syscall.Syscall(unix.SYS_MEMFD_CREATE, uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(p)), uintptr(flags), 0)
- if e0 != 0 {
- return -1, e0
+ fd, _, e := syscall.Syscall(unix.SYS_MEMFD_CREATE, uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(p)), uintptr(flags), 0)
+ if e != 0 {
+ if e == syscall.ENOSYS {
+ return -1, fmt.Errorf("memfd_create(2) is not implemented. Check that you have Linux 3.17 or higher")
+ }
+ return -1, e
}
- return int(r0), nil
+ return int(fd), nil
}