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From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@kernel.org>
To: Vitaly Chikunov <vt@altlinux.org>,
	Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com>,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ima-evm-utils: Never exit with -1 code
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 07:57:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1564487830.4189.39.camel@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190727031900.7140-2-vt@altlinux.org>

On Sat, 2019-07-27 at 06:19 +0300, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
> Change main() return code from -1 to 125 as -1 is not really valid exit
> code. 125 is choosen because exit codes for signals start from 126.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Chikunov <vt@altlinux.org>
> ---
>  src/evmctl.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/evmctl.c b/src/evmctl.c
> index d33a91e..e0a835f 100644
> --- a/src/evmctl.c
> +++ b/src/evmctl.c
> @@ -2100,6 +2100,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>  				break;
>  			log_err("%s\n", ERR_error_string(error, NULL));
>  		}
> +		if (err < 0)
> +			err = 125;
>  	}
>  
>  	if (eng) {

Agreed we need to return better errors, but instead of always
returning 125, would it be better to return the first errno, if err is
-1?

Mimi

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-30 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-27  3:18 [PATCH 1/2] ima-evm-utils: Fix ima_verify return value on multiple files Vitaly Chikunov
2019-07-27  3:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] ima-evm-utils: Never exit with -1 code Vitaly Chikunov
2019-07-30 11:57   ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2019-07-30 12:29     ` Vitaly Chikunov
2019-07-30 12:39       ` Vitaly Chikunov
2019-07-30 11:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] ima-evm-utils: Fix ima_verify return value on multiple files Mimi Zohar

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