Re: [PATCH] kconfig: add fflush() before ferror() check

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 1:19 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As David Laight pointed out, there is not much point in calling
> ferror() unless you call fflush() first.
>
> Reported-by: David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Applied to linux-kbuild.


>
>  scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> index d3c3a61308ad..94dcec2cc803 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
> @@ -979,6 +979,7 @@ static int conf_write_autoconf_cmd(const char *autoconf_name)
>
>         fprintf(out, "\n$(deps_config): ;\n");
>
> +       fflush(out);
>         ret = ferror(out); /* error check for all fprintf() calls */
>         fclose(out);
>         if (ret)
> @@ -1097,6 +1098,7 @@ static int __conf_write_autoconf(const char *filename,
>                 if ((sym->flags & SYMBOL_WRITE) && sym->name)
>                         print_symbol(file, sym);
>
> +       fflush(file);
>         /* check possible errors in conf_write_heading() and print_symbol() */
>         ret = ferror(file);
>         fclose(file);
> --
> 2.32.0
>


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada