[PATCH] scripts/kallsyms: Fix build failure by setting errno before calling getline()

From: James Clark
Date: Mon Jul 24 2023 - 09:18:50 EST


getline() returns -1 at EOF as well as on error. It also doesn't set
errno to 0 on success, so initialize it to 0 before using errno to check
for an error condition. See the paragraph here [1]:

For some system calls and library functions (e.g., getpriority(2)),
-1 is a valid return on success. In such cases, a successful return
can be distinguished from an error return by setting errno to zero
before the call, and then, if the call returns a status that indicates
that an error may have occurred, checking to see if errno has a
nonzero value.

This fixes the following build failure if scripts/kallsyms launches with
a non-zero errno value:

$ make
...
LD .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
NM .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.syms
KSYMS .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
read_symbol: Invalid argument

[1]: https://linux.die.net/man/3/errno

Fixes: 1c975da56a6f ("scripts/kallsyms: remove KSYM_NAME_LEN_BUFFER")
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx>
---
scripts/kallsyms.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index 16c87938b316..653b92f6d4c8 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ static struct sym_entry *read_symbol(FILE *in, char **buf, size_t *buf_len)
ssize_t readlen;
struct sym_entry *sym;

+ errno = 0;
readlen = getline(buf, buf_len, in);
if (readlen < 0) {
if (errno) {
--
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