diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6b26a03..f94fc4c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@
    `include/libpldm/meson.build` is modified, but not in ways that are
    significant.
 
+4. Return `ENOENT` rather than `ENOKEY` from
+   `pldm_pdr_find_child_container_id_index_range_exclude()`
+
 ### Fixed
 
 1. dsp: platform: Fix location of closing paren in overflow detection
diff --git a/include/libpldm/pdr.h b/include/libpldm/pdr.h
index f67cdad..7db280e 100644
--- a/include/libpldm/pdr.h
+++ b/include/libpldm/pdr.h
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@
  * @param[out] container_id - container id of the contained entity
  *
  * @return container id of the PDR record found on success,-EINVAL when repo is NULL
- * or -ENOKEY if the container id is not found.
+ * or -ENOENT if the container id is not found.
  */
 int pldm_pdr_find_child_container_id_index_range_exclude(
 	const pldm_pdr *repo, uint16_t entity_type, uint16_t entity_instance,
diff --git a/src/dsp/pdr.c b/src/dsp/pdr.c
index ccaa929..0ef1686 100644
--- a/src/dsp/pdr.c
+++ b/src/dsp/pdr.c
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@
 			return 0;
 		}
 	}
-	return -ENOKEY;
+	return -ENOENT;
 }
 
 typedef struct pldm_entity_association_tree {