journalctl: refuse extra arguments with --verify and similar

Positional arguments only make sense with the default action.
For other actions, complain instead of ignoring them silently.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/journal/journalctl.c b/src/journal/journalctl.c
index a328ba11b0..0619b256b9 100644
--- a/src/journal/journalctl.c
+++ b/src/journal/journalctl.c
@@ -658,6 +658,11 @@ static int parse_argv(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                 return -EINVAL;
         }
 
+        if (arg_action != ACTION_SHOW && optind < argc) {
+                log_error("Extraneous arguments starting with '%s'", argv[optind]);
+                return -EINVAL;
+        }
+
         return 1;
 }