linux-kernel - Re: New Defect(s) reported by Coverity Scan

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Date:	Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:13:52 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Scan Subscription <scan-subscription@...erity.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: New Defect(s) reported by Coverity Scan

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 06:55:03PM +0000, Scan Subscription wrote:
> Hi Boris
> 
> There is no fclose(file) call in parse_zoffset() function
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob_plain;f=arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c;hb=HEAD 
> 
> There is only one flcose call in this file and it is in the main() function
> Let us know if I am missing anything

Right, I was staring at older sources, sorry.

This parse_zoffset() thing has come in just recently with

commit 99f857db8857aff691c51302f93648263ed07eb1
Author: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@...el.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 10 14:31:59 2013 +0000

    x86, build: Dynamically find entry points in compressed startup code

and it might really need fclose() there for correctness' sake.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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