[PATCH] lib: Fix CID 1338432 Unchecked return value

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Nov 10 18:04:08 UTC 2015


On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 07:54:54PM +0200, Uri Simchoni wrote:
> >>>On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:29:41AM +0200, Uri Simchoni wrote:
> >>here is the correct decision.
> >One of the nice things about abort() is that it will trigger the
> >backtrace handler etc, which is essentially ideal for describing this
> >kind of error, and that handler can and does trigger DEBUG().
> >
> >Andrew Bartlett
> >
> abort() is great and that's what should be done, but the vital piece
> of information is - what was the return value of pthread_join()? For
> this I wanted a debug message.

Yeah but we can't get there from here :-).

Doing abort() and letting a crash dump
figure it out is the best we can do here.

If the pthread_join fails then we're probably
in such a bad state that trying a debug
is unsafe and could make things worse.

Die and let the post-mortem figure it
out IMHO :-).



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