linux-kernel - [PATCH] kconfig: add fflush() before ferror() check

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Date:   Sun, 13 Feb 2022 01:18:37 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Subject: [PATCH] kconfig: add fflush() before ferror() check

As David Laight pointed out, there is not much point in calling
ferror() unless you call fflush() first.

Reported-by: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
---

 scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
index d3c3a61308ad..94dcec2cc803 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
@@ -979,6 +979,7 @@ static int conf_write_autoconf_cmd(const char *autoconf_name)
 
 	fprintf(out, "\n$(deps_config): ;\n");
 
+	fflush(out);
 	ret = ferror(out); /* error check for all fprintf() calls */
 	fclose(out);
 	if (ret)
@@ -1097,6 +1098,7 @@ static int __conf_write_autoconf(const char *filename,
 		if ((sym->flags & SYMBOL_WRITE) && sym->name)
 			print_symbol(file, sym);
 
+	fflush(file);
 	/* check possible errors in conf_write_heading() and print_symbol() */
 	ret = ferror(file);
 	fclose(file);
-- 
2.32.0