If the <absolute-path-to-control-file> command line parameter cannot be opened, then cgroup_event_listener prints an error message and tries to return an error. However, due to an uninitialized variable the return value was undefined. With this patch such failures always return non-zero error. Compiler warning found this: $ gcc -Wall -O2 cgroup_event_listener.c cgroup_event_listener.c: In function ‘main’: cgroup_event_listener.c:109:2: warning: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized] Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/cgroup/cgroup_event_listener.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/cgroup/cgroup_event_listener.c b/tools/cgroup/cgroup_event_listener.c index 3e082f9..a70f00c 100644 --- a/tools/cgroup/cgroup_event_listener.c +++ b/tools/cgroup/cgroup_event_listener.c @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) if (cfd == -1) { fprintf(stderr, "Cannot open %s: %s\n", argv[1], strerror(errno)); - goto out; + return 1; } ret = snprintf(event_control_path, PATH_MAX, "%s/cgroup.event_control", -- 1.7.7.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html