[Libguestfs] [PATCH libguestfs] guestfish: detect a few more failed syscalls

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Wed Aug 19 08:34:35 UTC 2009


There were a few unchecked syscalls in fish.c

>From ba8b8b0684a03b6e6fbb939ed7e1cbf5e1000092 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:01:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH libguestfs] guestfish: detect a few more failed syscalls

* fish/fish.c (issue_command): Detect/diagnose more failed syscalls.
---
 fish/fish.c |   26 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fish/fish.c b/fish/fish.c
index 830617b..e6cd270 100644
--- a/fish/fish.c
+++ b/fish/fish.c
@@ -750,8 +750,14 @@ issue_command (const char *cmd, char *argv[], const char *pipecmd)
   if (pipecmd) {
     int fd[2];

-    fflush (stdout);
-    pipe (fd);
+    if (fflush (stdout)); {
+      perror ("failed to flush standard output");
+      return -1;
+    }
+    if (pipe (fd)) {
+      perror ("pipe failed");
+      return -1;
+    }
     pid = fork ();
     if (pid == -1) {
       perror ("fork");
@@ -760,7 +766,10 @@ issue_command (const char *cmd, char *argv[], const char *pipecmd)

     if (pid == 0) {		/* Child process. */
       close (fd[1]);
-      dup2 (fd[0], 0);
+      if (dup2 (fd[0], 0) < 0) {
+        perror ("dup2 of stdin failed");
+        _exit (1);
+      }

       r = system (pipecmd);
       if (r == -1) {
@@ -770,9 +779,16 @@ issue_command (const char *cmd, char *argv[], const char *pipecmd)
       _exit (WEXITSTATUS (r));
     }

-    stdout_saved_fd = dup (1);
+    if ((stdout_saved_fd = dup (1)) < 0) {
+      perror ("failed to dup stdout");
+      return -1;
+    }
     close (fd[0]);
-    dup2 (fd[1], 1);
+    if (dup2 (fd[1], 1)) {
+      perror ("failed to dup stdout");
+      close (stdout_saved_fd);
+      return -1;
+    }
     close (fd[1]);
   }

--
1.6.4.378.g88f2f




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