From c6244a8509d4e7a7bba65c453802e5ca24dfcebd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sebres <info@sebres.de>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:08:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] `fail2ban-regex`: don't error by output if stdout pipe gets
 closed (e. g. using together with `head`); amend to gh-2758 (see gh-3653)

---
 fail2ban/client/fail2banregex.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fail2ban/client/fail2banregex.py b/fail2ban/client/fail2banregex.py
index 22a96ebc7..5275a683c 100644
--- a/fail2ban/client/fail2banregex.py
+++ b/fail2ban/client/fail2banregex.py
@@ -789,7 +789,15 @@ class Fail2banRegex(object):
 		return True
 
 
+def _loc_except_hook(exctype, value, traceback):
+	if (exctype != BrokenPipeError and exctype != IOError or value.errno != 32):
+		return sys.__excepthook__(exctype, value, traceback)
+	# pipe seems to be closed (head / tail / etc), thus simply exit:
+	sys.exit(0)
+
 def exec_command_line(*args):
+	sys.excepthook = _loc_except_hook; # stop on closed/broken pipe
+
 	logging.exitOnIOError = True
 	parser = get_opt_parser()
 	(opts, args) = parser.parse_args(*args)