util/nvmutil: set errno in xstrxcmp

Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/util/nvmutil/nvmutil.c b/util/nvmutil/nvmutil.c
index 1eaa6a16..cd3d3650 100644
--- a/util/nvmutil/nvmutil.c
+++ b/util/nvmutil/nvmutil.c
@@ -1152,6 +1152,14 @@ xstrxcmp(const char *a, const char *b, size_t maxlen)
 	/*
 	 * Should never reach here. This keeps compilers happy.
 	 */
+
+	/*
+	 * If we do reach here, we want some way to crash
+	 * nvmutil before writing anything to disk.
+	 *
+	 * It checks errno extremely obsessively.
+	 */
+	errno = EINVAL;
 	return -1;
 }