linux-ext4 - [PATCH] e2image: don't leak progress info to stdout

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Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2016 22:20:46 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Alex Markley <alex@...exmedia.net>
Subject: [PATCH] e2image: don't leak progress info to stdout

Commit c8ee0d60 fixed most of these, but missed this one.

# e2image -r -p <device> - > imagefile

leads to a corrupted image due to the "Scanning inodes..."
printf going to stdout.

Reported-by: Alex Markley <alex@...exmedia.net>
Addresses-Red-Hat-Bugzilla: #1327329
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

diff --git a/misc/e2image.c b/misc/e2image.c
index e9b4ae2..690ad2c 100644
--- a/misc/e2image.c
+++ b/misc/e2image.c
@@ -1285,7 +1285,7 @@ static void write_raw_image_file(ext2_filsys fs, int fd, int type, int flags)
 
 	mark_table_blocks(fs);
 	if (show_progress)
-		printf("%s", _("Scanning inodes...\n"));
+		fprintf(stderr, "%s", _("Scanning inodes...\n"));
 
 	retval = ext2fs_open_inode_scan(fs, 0, &scan);
 	if (retval) {

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