From: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
To: Gaurav Kumar <gk@pivotalsecurity.com>
Cc: SELinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: selinux context_new return value question
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:16:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <503CA8A4.50802@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFUy1TwvBNP9UBTK39DRWg5LNnf6tA2UJYuBpPP548oK0GrZxg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 08/28/2012 05:09 AM, Gaurav Kumar wrote:
> According to http://linux.die.net/man/3/context_new, "On success, zero is
> returned" but none of the functions mentioned return 0. They are all
> returning const char * or void. Can someone please clarify in which case 0
> will be returned? In other words, how can I find out if call to context_new
> succeeded?
>
> Thanks, Gaurav
>
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It is a bug. NULL (0) actually would be the error code. Since context_new is
basically doing a malloc of a new structure.
I will fix the code in Fedora and work to get it upstream.
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2012-08-28 9:09 ` selinux context_new return value question Gaurav Kumar
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