As David Laight pointed out, there is not much point in calling ferror() unless you call fflush() first. Reported-by: David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- 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