Re: [PATCH] kbuild: fixdep: Check fstat(2) return value

[Tom Rini]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 02:11:16PM -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Tom Rini <trini@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Coverity has recently added a check that will find when we don't check
> > the return code from fstat(2).  Copy/paste the checking logic that
> > print_deps() has with an appropriate re-wording of the perror() message.
> >
> > Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ---
> > Note that I don't have a CID here was I found this in U-Boot and the
> > kernel hasn't yet done a build with this test being enabled.
> > ---
> >  scripts/basic/fixdep.c |    6 +++++-
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/basic/fixdep.c b/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
> > index c68fd61..e3d9678 100644
> > --- a/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
> > +++ b/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
> > @@ -274,7 +274,11 @@ static void do_config_file(const char *filename)
> >                 perror(filename);
> >                 exit(2);
> >         }
> > -       fstat(fd, &st);
> > +       if (fstat(fd, &st) < 0) {
> > +               fprintf(stderr, "fixdep: error fstat'ing config file: ");
> > +               perror(filename);
> > +               exit(2);
> > +       }
> >         if (st.st_size == 0) {
> >                 close(fd);
> >                 return;
> 
> 
> Adding stable@ since this applies to 4.4.  Any comments?  Thanks!

Ping?  Thanks!

-- 
Tom