Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] selftests: cgroup: return the errno of write() in cg_write() on failure

From: Roman Gushchin
Date: Fri Apr 08 2022 - 21:33:32 EST


On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 04:57:41AM +0000, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> Currently, cg_write() returns 0 on success and -1 on failure. Modify it
> to return the errno of write() syscall when write() fails.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c | 32 +++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c
> index dbaa7aabbb4a..3b6bb09985fa 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c
> @@ -38,23 +38,23 @@ static ssize_t read_text(const char *path, char *buf, size_t max_len)
> return len;
> }
>
> -static ssize_t write_text(const char *path, char *buf, ssize_t len)
> +/*
> + * Returns:
> + * success -> 0
> + * open() failure -> -1

Is there a reason why we can't return errno in this case as well?
It would be more straightforward.

Otherwise the change looks good to me.