From de50b394757eedcfa86298971cc20176ed8778ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 09:55:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] utmp: call prepare_utmp() even if utent is NULL

update_utmp() should also return 0 when success.

Fixes: 1f368e1c1838de9d476a36897d7c53394569de08 ("utmp: update
`update_utmp()")
Resolves: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/issues/805

Signed-off-by: Iker Pedrosa <ipedrosa@redhat.com>
Cherry-picked-from: 5178f8c5afb612f6ddf5363823547e080e7f546b
Link: <https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/issues/805>
Link: <https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/pull/808>
Reviewed-by: Michael Vetter <jubalh@iodoru.org>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
---
 lib/utmp.c | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/utmp.c b/lib/utmp.c
index 7c7da697..99833c4f 100644
--- a/lib/utmp.c
+++ b/lib/utmp.c
@@ -368,17 +368,16 @@ int update_utmp (const char *user,
 	struct utmp *utent, *ut;
 
 	utent = get_current_utmp ();
-	if (utent == NULL) {
-		return -1;
-	}
-
 	ut = prepare_utmp  (user, tty, host, utent);
 
 	(void) setutmp  (ut);	/* make entry in the utmp & wtmp files */
-	free (utent);
+
+	if (utent != NULL) {
+		free (utent);
+	}
 	free (ut);
 
-	return 1;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 void record_failure(const char *failent_user,