linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 2/7] tool api fs: Correctly encode errno for read/write open failures

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Message-Id: <20241118225345.889810-3-irogers@google.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:53:40 -0800
From: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, 
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, 
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, 
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, 
	Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>, Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>, 
	Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>, Athira Jajeev <atrajeev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, 
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	linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, 
	"Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH v5 2/7] tool api fs: Correctly encode errno for read/write
 open failures

Switch from returning -1 to -errno so that callers can determine types
of failure.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
---
 tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c b/tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c
index 337fde770e45..edec23406dbc 100644
--- a/tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c
+++ b/tools/lib/api/fs/fs.c
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ int filename__read_int(const char *filename, int *value)
 	int fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY), err = -1;
 
 	if (fd < 0)
-		return -1;
+		return -errno;
 
 	if (read(fd, line, sizeof(line)) > 0) {
 		*value = atoi(line);
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ static int filename__read_ull_base(const char *filename,
 	int fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY), err = -1;
 
 	if (fd < 0)
-		return -1;
+		return -errno;
 
 	if (read(fd, line, sizeof(line)) > 0) {
 		*value = strtoull(line, NULL, base);
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ int filename__write_int(const char *filename, int value)
 	char buf[64];
 
 	if (fd < 0)
-		return err;
+		return -errno;
 
 	sprintf(buf, "%d", value);
 	if (write(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)) == sizeof(buf))
-- 
2.47.0.338.g60cca15819-goog