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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] cgroups: fix cgroup_event_listener error handling
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 01:05:18PM -0800, Greg Thelen wrote:
> 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@google.com>
> ---
> 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;

Hmm... so, event_control open failure path is broken the same way.
Can you please fix it together? Please just remove the cleanup path.

Thanks.

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tejun
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