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; -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html