From 7c2ec43a2154c9cd6477f85de8d247ad491cf2d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukas Bulwahn Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 11:04:01 +0100 Subject: fixdep: exit with error code in error branches of do_config_file() do_config_file() should exit with an error code on internal run-time errors, and not return if it fails as then the error in do_config_file() would go unnoticed in the current code and allow the build to continue. The exit with error code will make the build fail in those very exceptional cases. If this occurs, this actually indicates a deeper problem in the execution of the kernel build process. Now, in these error cases, we do not explicitly free memory and close the file handlers in do_config_file(), as this is covered by exit(). This issue in the fixdep script was introduced with its initial implementation back in 2002 by the original author Kai Germaschewski with this commit 04bd72170653 ("kbuild: Make dependencies at compile time") in the linux history git tree, i.e., git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git. This issue was identified during the review of a previous patch that intended to address a memory leak detected by a static analysis tool. Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/14/736 Suggested-by: Nicholas Mc Guire Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada --- scripts/basic/fixdep.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'scripts/basic') diff --git a/scripts/basic/fixdep.c b/scripts/basic/fixdep.c index bbf62cb1f819..86a61d642220 100644 --- a/scripts/basic/fixdep.c +++ b/scripts/basic/fixdep.c @@ -290,13 +290,11 @@ static void do_config_file(const char *filename) map = malloc(st.st_size + 1); if (!map) { perror("fixdep: malloc"); - close(fd); - return; + exit(2); } if (read(fd, map, st.st_size) != st.st_size) { perror("fixdep: read"); - close(fd); - return; + exit(2); } map[st.st_size] = '\0'; close(fd); -- cgit v1.2.3