[tip:x86/urgent] x86, build: Make sure mkpiggy fails on read error

From: tip-bot for Daniel J Blueman
Date: Tue Mar 01 2011 - 19:43:27 EST


Commit-ID: 6670e9cdaf554290e26121aa72f0118f2fac52e5
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6670e9cdaf554290e26121aa72f0118f2fac52e5
Author: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:33:59 +0800
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 16:32:03 -0800

x86, build: Make sure mkpiggy fails on read error

Ensure build doesn't silently continue despite read failure,
addressing a warning due to the unchecked call.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@xxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTimxxTMU3=4ry-_zbY6v1xiDi+hW9y1RegTr8vLK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c
index 646aa78..46a8238 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c
@@ -62,7 +62,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
if (fseek(f, -4L, SEEK_END)) {
perror(argv[1]);
}
- fread(&olen, sizeof olen, 1, f);
+
+ if (fread(&olen, sizeof(olen), 1, f) != 1) {
+ perror(argv[1]);
+ return 1;
+ }
+
ilen = ftell(f);
olen = getle32(&olen);
fclose(f);
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