[PATCH 5/5] batctl: debug: don't return negative error codes from handle_debug_table

Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]> Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:36:03 +0200
Newsgroups org.open-mesh.lists.batman
Message-ID <[email protected]>
handle_debug_table() returns the result of the netlink dump function
directly. This is a negative errno code on failure and main() passes it
straight to exit(). The process then terminates with a mangled exit status
like 161 (-95 & 0xff).

Limit the return codes to EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <[email protected]>
---
 debug.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debug.c b/debug.c
index 22cbcb8..13a0a43 100644
--- a/debug.c
+++ b/debug.c
@@ -152,5 +152,8 @@ int handle_debug_table(struct state *state, int argc, char **argv)
 
 	err = debug_table->netlink_fn(state, orig_iface, read_opt,
 				      orig_timeout, watch_interval);
-	return err;
+	if (err < 0)
+		return EXIT_FAILURE;
+
+	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }

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