Some callers of open_and_lseek() expect an error code instead of -1
as return value, so consistently return an error code.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <[email protected]>
---
 lib/libfile.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/libfile.c b/lib/libfile.c
index ebd1de3d8e..c7ea4e497f 100644
--- a/lib/libfile.c
+++ b/lib/libfile.c
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ int compare_file(const char *f1, const char *f2)
  * @pos:       The position to lseek to
  *
  * Return: If successful this function returns a positive
- *         filedescriptor number, otherwise -1 is returned
+ *         filedescriptor number, otherwise a negative error code is returned
  */
 int open_and_lseek(const char *filename, int mode, loff_t pos)
 {
@@ -607,26 +607,30 @@ int open_and_lseek(const char *filename, int mode, loff_t 
pos)
        if (mode & (O_WRONLY | O_RDWR)) {
                struct stat s;
 
-               if (fstat(fd, &s)) {
+               ret = fstat(fd, &s);
+               if (ret < 0) {
                        perror("fstat");
                        goto out;
                }
 
-               if (s.st_size < pos && ftruncate(fd, pos)) {
-                       perror("ftruncate");
-                       goto out;
-               }
+               if (s.st_size < pos) {
+                       ret = ftruncate(fd, pos));
+                       if (ret) {
+                               perror("ftruncate");
+                               goto out;
+                       }
        }
 
        if (lseek(fd, pos, SEEK_SET) != pos) {
                perror("lseek");
+               ret = -errno;
                goto out;
        }
 
        return fd;
 out:
        close(fd);
-       return -1;
+       return ret;
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.39.2


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