Merge pull request #2436 from pacovn/Coverity_1143220_Argument_cannot_be_negative

tools: return check (Coverity 1143220)

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/start-stop-daemon.c b/tools/start-stop-daemon.c
index 5f13b90be3..8c3fe0c3c5 100644
--- a/tools/start-stop-daemon.c
+++ b/tools/start-stop-daemon.c
@@ -1030,8 +1030,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		umask(022);    /* set a default for dumb programs */
 		setpgid(0, 0); /* set the process group */
 		fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR); /* stdin */
-		dup(fd);			/* stdout */
-		dup(fd);			/* stderr */
+		if (fd >= 0) {
+			dup(fd);		/* stdout */
+			dup(fd);		/* stderr */
+		}
 	}
 	if (nicelevel) {
 		errno = 0;