[PATCH 1/4] tools: hv: Check return value of setsockopt call

Tomas Hozza thozza at redhat.com
Tue May 21 13:36:52 UTC 2013


Check return value of setsockopt call and if it fails print error
to the system log and exit with non-zero value.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <thozza at redhat.com>
---
 tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
index 5a1f648..b30f831 100644
--- a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
+++ b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
@@ -1457,7 +1457,13 @@ int main(void)
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
 	nl_group = CN_KVP_IDX;
-	setsockopt(fd, SOL_NETLINK, NETLINK_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, &nl_group, sizeof(nl_group));
+	
+	if (setsockopt(fd, SOL_NETLINK, NETLINK_ADD_MEMBERSHIP, &nl_group, sizeof(nl_group)) < 0) {
+		syslog(LOG_ERR, "setsockopt failed; error: %d %s" errno, strerror(errno));
+		close(fd);
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Register ourselves with the kernel.
 	 */
-- 
1.8.1.4




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