ACK: [PATCH] uefirtvariable: fix the unchecked return value

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Wed May 8 08:28:10 UTC 2013


On 08/05/13 04:06, Ivan Hu wrote:
> Coverity CID #997310: Unchecked return value
> 
> Need to check the return value for calling function "ioctl".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Hu <ivan.hu at canonical.com>
> ---
>  src/uefi/uefirtvariable/uefirtvariable.c |    5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/uefi/uefirtvariable/uefirtvariable.c b/src/uefi/uefirtvariable/uefirtvariable.c
> index 16cd240..7c2fc1f 100644
> --- a/src/uefi/uefirtvariable/uefirtvariable.c
> +++ b/src/uefi/uefirtvariable/uefirtvariable.c
> @@ -858,6 +858,7 @@ static int setvariable_invalidattr(
>  	EFI_GUID *gtestguid,
>  	const uint8_t datadiff)
>  {
> +	long ioret;
>  	struct efi_setvariable setvariable;
>  	uint64_t status;
>  	uint64_t dataindex;
> @@ -873,9 +874,9 @@ static int setvariable_invalidattr(
>  	setvariable.Data = data;
>  	setvariable.status = &status;
>  
> -	ioctl(fd, EFI_RUNTIME_SET_VARIABLE, &setvariable);
> +	ioret = ioctl(fd, EFI_RUNTIME_SET_VARIABLE, &setvariable);
>  
> -	if (status == EFI_SUCCESS) {
> +	if ((status == EFI_SUCCESS) && (ioret != -1)) {
>  		fwts_warning(fw,
>  			"After ExitBootServices() is performed, the "
>  			"attributes %" PRIu32 ", "
> 
Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>




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