[chiptests] Check the exit code of the subprocesses and raise a failu…

…re if the exit code is not 0 AND if the process was responding (we ignore cases where the process is stuck) (#35817)

scripts/tests/chiptest/test_definition.py

@@ -159,10 +159,15 @@ def __terminateProcess(self):
         if self.process:
             self.process.terminate()  # sends SIGTERM
             try:
-                self.process.wait(10)
+                exit_code = self.process.wait(10)
+                if exit_code:
+                    raise Exception('Subprocess failed with exit code: %d' % exit_code)
             except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
                 logging.debug('Subprocess did not terminate on SIGTERM, killing it now')
                 self.process.kill()
+                # The exit code when using Python subprocess will be the signal used to kill it.
+                # Ideally, we would recover the original exit code, but the process was already
+                # ignoring SIGTERM, indicating something was already wrong.
                 self.process.wait(10)
             self.process = None
             self.outpipe = None