[PATCH] cpupower: monitor: Exit with error status if execvp() fail

From: Yiwei Lin
Date: Tue Feb 11 2025 - 05:06:01 EST


In the case that we give a invalid command to idle_monitor for
monitoring, the execvp() will fail and thus go to the next line.
As a result, we'll see two differnt monitoring output. For
example, running `cpupower monitor -i 5 invalidcmd` which `invalidcmd`
is not executable.

Signed-off-by: Yiwei Lin <s921975628@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/power/cpupower/utils/idle_monitor/cpupower-monitor.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/idle_monitor/cpupower-monitor.c b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/idle_monitor/cpupower-monitor.c
index f746099b5dac..0fc0e229739d 100644
--- a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/idle_monitor/cpupower-monitor.c
+++ b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/idle_monitor/cpupower-monitor.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
*/


+#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
@@ -295,6 +296,7 @@ int fork_it(char **argv)
if (!child_pid) {
/* child */
execvp(argv[0], argv);
+ exit(errno);
} else {
/* parent */
if (child_pid == -1) {
--
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