[Libguestfs] [PATCH] lib: Reset errno to zero to avoid erroneously returning E2BIG

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Jan 22 22:21:54 UTC 2019


On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 04:43:31PM -0500, Michael Meyer wrote:
> This line was accidentally removed in 77fe74fc, causing
> bug #1145056 (Bugzilla) to resurface.
> ---
>  lib/utf16.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/utf16.c b/lib/utf16.c
> index e099548..67fa996 100644
> --- a/lib/utf16.c
> +++ b/lib/utf16.c
> @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ _hivex_recode (hive_h *h, recode_type t,
>        /* Reset errno here because we don't want to accidentally
>         * return E2BIG to a library caller.
>         */
> +      errno = 0;
>        size_t prev = outalloc;
>        /* Try again with a larger output buffer. */
>        free (out);

Sorry about that.  I've pushed your fix now.

Rich.

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