The caller of writev_exact should be notified about malloc errors
when dealing with partial writes.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <o...@aepfle.de>
---


I think this is a backport candidate...


 tools/libs/ctrl/xc_private.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/libs/ctrl/xc_private.c b/tools/libs/ctrl/xc_private.c
index 8af96b1b7e..3fab94f9c0 100644
--- a/tools/libs/ctrl/xc_private.c
+++ b/tools/libs/ctrl/xc_private.c
@@ -721,6 +721,7 @@ int writev_exact(int fd, const struct iovec *iov, int 
iovcnt)
                     if ( !local_iov )
                     {
                         saved_errno = ENOMEM;
+                        rc = -1;
                         goto out;
                     }
 

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