[PATCH] log: avoid call close with negative value

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Feb 5 17:15:18 CET 2025


On error path, the journal socket code would call close
with -1 which caused Coverity warning.

Coverity issue: 448872
Fixes: 9da0dc6c0331 ("log: support systemd journal")

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 lib/log/log_journal.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/log/log_journal.c b/lib/log/log_journal.c
index e9b3aa5640..43099649ed 100644
--- a/lib/log/log_journal.c
+++ b/lib/log/log_journal.c
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ log_journal_open(const char *id)
 		.sun_family = AF_UNIX,
 		.sun_path = "/run/systemd/journal/socket",
 	};
-	int jfd = -1;
+	int jfd;
 
 	len = snprintf(syslog_id, sizeof(syslog_id),
 		       "SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=%s\nSYSLOG_PID=%u", id, getpid());
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ log_journal_open(const char *id)
 	jfd = socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
 	if (jfd < 0) {
 		perror("socket");
-		goto error;
+		return NULL;
 	}
 
 	if (connect(jfd, (struct sockaddr *)&sun, sizeof(sun)) < 0) {
-- 
2.47.2



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