logging: coerce negative error values to positive errno

Especially systemd, which makes use of the error argument for logging, likes
to represent errors as negative numbers. We hence must invert a negative error
code to get the real errno.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/nm-logging.c b/src/nm-logging.c
index f79ba3c2e4..30c754d163 100644
--- a/src/nm-logging.c
+++ b/src/nm-logging.c
@@ -431,8 +431,11 @@ _nm_log_impl (const char *file,
 		return;
 
 	/* Make sure that %m maps to the specified error */
-	if (error != 0)
+	if (error != 0) {
+		if (error < 0)
+			error = -error;
 		errno = error;
+	}
 
 	va_start (args, fmt);
 	msg = g_strdup_vprintf (fmt, args);