Re: [PATCH] ss: Tone down cgroup path resolution

[Davide Benini <davide.benini@suse.com>]

On 10/02/25 15:11, Michal Koutný wrote:
> Sockets and cgroups have different lifetimes (e.g. fd passing between
> cgroups) so obtaining a cgroup id to a removed cgroup dir is not an
> error. Furthermore, the message is printed for each such a socket.
> Improve user experience by silencing these specific errors.

Note that if ss has been called with -e (to show detailed socket information) or with --cgroup (to show cgroup information), even if the message "Failed to open cgroup2 by ID" will no longer appear, however the cg_id_to_path() will return a string "unreachable:%llx" and the output will still be similar to

tcp	LISTEN	0	4096	[::]:2049	[::]:*	ino:710321	sk:10da	cgroup:unreachable:8ed7	v6only:1 <->

But I agree that removing the specific error message would be enough to prevent customer concern.

Davide Benini