[PATCH 1/3] virpidfile: Set correct retval in virPidFileReadPath()

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Thu Feb 20 11:02:35 UTC 2020


The virPidFileReadPath() function is supposed to return 0 on
success or a negative value on failure. But the negative value
has a special meaning - it's negated errno. Therefore, when
converting string to int we shouldn't return -1 which translates
to EPERM. Returning EINVAL looks closer to the truth.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
---
 src/util/virpidfile.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/util/virpidfile.c b/src/util/virpidfile.c
index a8a743504d..d5aa5f4f84 100644
--- a/src/util/virpidfile.c
+++ b/src/util/virpidfile.c
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ int virPidFileReadPath(const char *path,
     if (virStrToLong_ll(pidstr, &endptr, 10, &pid_value) < 0 ||
         !(*endptr == '\0' || g_ascii_isspace(*endptr)) ||
         (pid_t) pid_value != pid_value) {
-        rc = -1;
+        rc = -EINVAL;
         goto cleanup;
     }
 
-- 
2.24.1




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