[LTP] [PATCH v12 1/3] lib/tst_uid: Remove spurious TERRNO from tst_get_free_gid success path

Andrea Cervesato andrea.cervesato@suse.com
Thu Jul 23 14:39:17 CEST 2026


Hi Wei,

> tst_get_free_gid_() prints the found GID when it succeeds, but it
> incorrectly includes TERRNO in tst_res_(). This prints whatever value
> happens to be in errno (often 0 or a stale value) which is confusing in
> a success path.
> 
> Remove the spurious TERRNO flag from the tst_res_() success message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Gao <wegao@suse.com>
> ---
>  lib/tst_uid.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/tst_uid.c b/lib/tst_uid.c
> index af4ef8cf7..b0b087362 100644
> --- a/lib/tst_uid.c
> +++ b/lib/tst_uid.c
> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ gid_t tst_get_free_gid_(const char *file, const int lineno, gid_t skip)
>  			continue;
>  
>  		if (errno == 0 || errno == ENOENT || errno == ESRCH) {
> -			tst_res_(file, lineno, TINFO | TERRNO,
> +			tst_res_(file, lineno, TINFO,
>  				"Found unused GID %d", (int)ret);

uhm? technically it should print 0, ENOENT or ESRCH. That's what the
statement is all about. Do you have a log showing what's the issue with it?

--
Andrea Cervesato
SUSE QE Automation Engineer Linux
andrea.cervesato@suse.com


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