From 7fe8989fbb38f9c62fe5205b862055914e6b45a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 19:43:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] MINOR: sock: update broken accept4 detection for older
 hardwares.

Some older ARM embedded settings set errno to EPERM instead of ENOSYS
for missing implementations (e.g. Freescale ARM 2.6.35)
---
 src/sock.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/sock.c b/src/sock.c
index 83db74595..3644a1a91 100644
--- a/src/sock.c
+++ b/src/sock.c
@@ -88,9 +88,13 @@ struct connection *sock_accept_conn(struct listener *l, int *status)
 	 * the legacy accept() + fcntl().
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(accept4_broken) ||
+	    /* Albeit it appears it does not make sense to carry on with accept
+	     * if we encounter EPERM, some old embedded ARM Linux 2.6.x sets as
+	     * such instead of ENOSYS.
+	     */
 	    (((cfd = accept4(l->rx.fd, (struct sockaddr*)addr, &laddr,
 	                     SOCK_NONBLOCK | (master ? SOCK_CLOEXEC : 0))) == -1) &&
-	     (errno == ENOSYS || errno == EINVAL || errno == EBADF) &&
+	     (errno == ENOSYS || errno == EINVAL || errno == EBADF || errno == EPERM) &&
 	     ((accept4_broken = 1))))
 #endif
 	{