fdisk: always report fdisk_create_disklabel() errors

This is fdisk, cfdisk and sfdisk change to inform user about fdisk_create_disklabel()
issues.

Addresses: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/1147
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

3 files changed, 37 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/disk-utils/cfdisk.c b/disk-utils/cfdisk.c
index c783f9daa..d96b6e9e0 100644
--- a/disk-utils/cfdisk.c
+++ b/disk-utils/cfdisk.c
@@ -747,6 +747,20 @@ static void ui_clean_warn(void)
 	clrtoeol();
 }
 
+static int __attribute__((__noreturn__)) ui_err(int rc, const char *fmt, ...)
+		{
+	va_list ap;
+	ui_end();
+
+	va_start(ap, fmt);
+	fprintf(stderr, "%s: ", program_invocation_short_name);
+	vfprintf(stderr, fmt, ap);
+	fprintf(stderr, ": %s\n", strerror(errno));
+	va_end(ap);
+
+	exit(rc);
+}
+
 static int __attribute__((__noreturn__)) ui_errx(int rc, const char *fmt, ...)
 		{
 	va_list ap;
@@ -2529,9 +2543,11 @@ static int ui_run(struct cfdisk *cf)
 
 	if (!fdisk_has_label(cf->cxt) || cf->zero_start) {
 		rc = ui_create_label(cf);
-		if (rc < 0)
-			ui_errx(EXIT_FAILURE,
+		if (rc < 0) {
+			errno = -rc;
+			ui_err(EXIT_FAILURE,
 					_("failed to create a new disklabel"));
+		}
 		if (rc)
 			return rc;
 	}
diff --git a/disk-utils/fdisk-menu.c b/disk-utils/fdisk-menu.c
index 51ae7b5e6..9f09eea83 100644
--- a/disk-utils/fdisk-menu.c
+++ b/disk-utils/fdisk-menu.c
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ static int script_read(struct fdisk_context *cxt)
 		rc = fdisk_reassign_device(cxt);
                 if (rc == 0 && !fdisk_has_label(cxt)) {
                         fdisk_info(cxt, _("Device does not contain a recognized partition table."));
-                        fdisk_create_disklabel(cxt, NULL);
+                        rc = fdisk_create_disklabel(cxt, NULL);
 		}
 	} else
 		fdisk_info(cxt, _("Script successfully applied."));
@@ -1065,6 +1065,7 @@ static int createlabel_menu_cb(struct fdisk_context **cxt0,
 		       const struct menu_entry *ent)
 {
 	struct fdisk_context *cxt = *cxt0;
+	const char *wanted = NULL;
 	int rc = -EINVAL;
 
 	DBG(MENU, ul_debug("enter Create label menu"));
@@ -1077,26 +1078,33 @@ static int createlabel_menu_cb(struct fdisk_context **cxt0,
 		case 'g':
 			/* Deprecated, use 'G' in main menu, just for backward
 			 * compatibility only. */
-			rc = fdisk_create_disklabel(cxt, "sgi");
+			wanted = "sgi";
 			break;
 		}
 	} else {
 		switch (ent->key) {
 			case 'g':
-				rc = fdisk_create_disklabel(cxt, "gpt");
+				wanted = "gpt";
 				break;
 			case 'G':
-				rc = fdisk_create_disklabel(cxt, "sgi");
+				wanted = "sgi";
 				break;
 			case 'o':
-				rc = fdisk_create_disklabel(cxt, "dos");
+				wanted = "dos";
 				break;
 			case 's':
-				rc = fdisk_create_disklabel(cxt, "sun");
+				wanted = "sun";
 				break;
 		}
 	}
 
+	if (wanted) {
+		rc = fdisk_create_disklabel(cxt, wanted);
+		if (rc) {
+			errno = -rc;
+			fdisk_warn(cxt, _("Failed to create '%s' disk label"), wanted);
+		}
+	}
 	if (rc == 0 && fdisk_get_collision(cxt))
 		follow_wipe_mode(cxt);
 
diff --git a/disk-utils/sfdisk.c b/disk-utils/sfdisk.c
index 192e9f951..54d3b60e7 100644
--- a/disk-utils/sfdisk.c
+++ b/disk-utils/sfdisk.c
@@ -1890,10 +1890,11 @@ static int command_fdisk(struct sfdisk *sf, int argc, char **argv)
 			if (!created) {		/* create a new disklabel */
 				rc = fdisk_apply_script_headers(sf->cxt, dp);
 				created = !rc;
-				if (rc)
-					fdisk_warnx(sf->cxt, _(
-					  "Failed to apply script headers, "
-					  "disk label not created."));
+				if (rc) {
+					errno = -rc;
+					fdisk_warn(sf->cxt, _(
+					  "Failed to apply script headers, disk label not created"));
+				}
 
 				if (rc == 0 && fdisk_get_collision(sf->cxt))
 					follow_wipe_mode(sf);