basic/fs-util: change CHASE_OPEN flag into a separate output parameter

chase_symlinks() would return negative on error, and either a non-negative status
or a non-negative fd when CHASE_OPEN was given. This made the interface quite
complicated, because dependning on the flags used, we would get two different
"types" of return object. Coverity was always confused by this, and flagged
every use of chase_symlinks() without CHASE_OPEN as a resource leak (because it
would this that an fd is returned). This patch uses a saparate output parameter,
so there is no confusion.

(I think it is OK to have functions which return either an error or an fd. It's
only returning *either* an fd or a non-fd that is confusing.)

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/dbus-manager.c b/src/core/dbus-manager.c
index 035011e34f..d98ec32a0b 100644
--- a/src/core/dbus-manager.c
+++ b/src/core/dbus-manager.c
@@ -1471,7 +1471,7 @@ static int method_switch_root(sd_bus_message *message, void *userdata, sd_bus_er
                 if (!path_is_absolute(init))
                         return sd_bus_error_setf(error, SD_BUS_ERROR_INVALID_ARGS, "Path to init binary '%s' not absolute.", init);
 
-                r = chase_symlinks(init, root, CHASE_PREFIX_ROOT|CHASE_TRAIL_SLASH, &chased);
+                r = chase_symlinks(init, root, CHASE_PREFIX_ROOT|CHASE_TRAIL_SLASH, &chased, NULL);
                 if (r < 0)
                         return sd_bus_error_set_errnof(error, r, "Could not resolve init executable %s: %m", init);