The return value from system() is a waitpid-style integer. Do not return it directly because with the implicit masking in exit() it will always return 0. Access it with apropriate macros to really pass on errors.
Fixes: 7290ce1423c3 ("selftests/timers: Add clocksource-switch test from timetest suite") Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com --- tools/testing/selftests/timers/clocksource-switch.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/timers/clocksource-switch.c b/tools/testing/selftests/timers/clocksource-switch.c index ef8eb3604595..b57f0a9be490 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/timers/clocksource-switch.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/timers/clocksource-switch.c @@ -110,10 +110,10 @@ int run_tests(int secs)
sprintf(buf, "./inconsistency-check -t %i", secs); ret = system(buf); - if (ret) - return ret; + if (WIFEXITED(ret) && WEXITSTATUS(ret)) + return WEXITSTATUS(ret); ret = system("./nanosleep"); - return ret; + return WIFEXITED(ret) ? WEXITSTATUS(ret) : 0; }