On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 12:05 PM Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> fb_open returns a pointer and doesn't populate errno, which will
> results in a stale errno being evaluated by perror() on failure.
> Fix this by populating errno manually at call sites.
>
Why not just convert the code to use strerror() instead? Seems a bit
more straightforward plus changing errno outside of our "POSIX/C"
layer seems a bit out of place. Not a big deal though.
Thanks,
Andrey Smirnov
> While at it, correct the typo in the prefix passed to perror().
>
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> commands/fbtest.c | 5 +++--
> commands/splash.c | 5 +++--
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/commands/fbtest.c b/commands/fbtest.c
> index e5dd8ba7fabf..2c589f77d3b8 100644
> --- a/commands/fbtest.c
> +++ b/commands/fbtest.c
> @@ -271,8 +271,9 @@ static int do_fbtest(int argc, char *argv[])
>
> sc = fb_open(fbdev);
> if (IS_ERR(sc)) {
> - perror("fd_open");
> - return PTR_ERR(sc);
> + errno = PTR_ERR(sc);
> + perror("fb_open");
> + return errno;
> }
>
> if (!pattern_name) {
> diff --git a/commands/splash.c b/commands/splash.c
> index 2b70b296837e..75b3ee3fadaf 100644
> --- a/commands/splash.c
> +++ b/commands/splash.c
> @@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ static int do_splash(int argc, char *argv[])
>
> sc = fb_open(fbdev);
> if (IS_ERR(sc)) {
> - perror("fd_open");
> - return PTR_ERR(sc);
> + errno = PTR_ERR(sc);
> + perror("fb_open");
> + return errno;
> }
>
> buf = gui_screen_render_buffer(sc);
> --
> 2.20.1
>
>
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