The open() function returns -1 on error. openat() and open() initialize 'from' and 'to', and only 'from' validated with 'if' statement. If the initialization of variable 'to' fails, we should better check the value of 'to' and close 'from' to avoid possible file leak. Fixes: 32ae976ed3b5 ("selftests/capabilities: Add tests for capability evolution") Signed-off-by: Ma Ke <make24@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Found this error through static analysis. --- tools/testing/selftests/capabilities/test_execve.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/capabilities/test_execve.c b/tools/testing/selftests/capabilities/test_execve.c index 47bad7ddc5bc..de187eff177d 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/capabilities/test_execve.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/capabilities/test_execve.c @@ -149,6 +149,10 @@ static void copy_fromat_to(int fromfd, const char *fromname, const char *toname) ksft_exit_fail_msg("open copy source - %s\n", strerror(errno)); int to = open(toname, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_EXCL, 0700); + if (to == -1) { + close(from); + ksft_exit_fail_msg("open copy destination - %s\n", strerror(errno)); + } while (true) { char buf[4096]; -- 2.25.1