[PATCH] mtd-utils: common.h: fix prompt function

[David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The prompt() function is intended to query a yes/no reply from a command
line user by reading in an entire line of text using getline() and checking
the first character. If the line is empty, a default value is returned.

First of all, this patch replaces the usage of getline() with fgets() to
avoid compilation problems on some smaller C libraries, like klibc, that
do not have a getline() implementation. Since we now have a static line
length, this may however break some build setups that input lengthy
giberish instead of a simple 'y' or 'n'.

Second, this patch fixes a more severe bug in prompt(), replacing a 'while'
keyword with the 'if' that was most likely intended. In the old version, if
getline() reported an error, it would print an error message inside a while
loop, immediately followed by a break and then march on and process the
erroneous input instead of using the default value as printed to stdout.

Signed-off-by: David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/common.h | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/common.h b/include/common.h
index 2ce5d22..ece2287 100644
--- a/include/common.h
+++ b/include/common.h
@@ -141,15 +141,14 @@ extern "C" {
  */
 static inline bool prompt(const char *msg, bool def)
 {
-	char *line = NULL;
-	size_t len;
 	bool ret = def;
+	char line[64];
 
 	do {
 		normsg_cont("%s (%c/%c) ", msg, def ? 'Y' : 'y', def ? 'n' : 'N');
 		fflush(stdout);
 
-		while (getline(&line, &len, stdin) == -1) {
+		if (fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin) == NULL) {
 			printf("failed to read prompt; assuming '%s'\n",
 				def ? "yes" : "no");
 			break;
@@ -169,8 +168,6 @@ static inline bool prompt(const char *msg, bool def)
 		break;
 	} while (1);
 
-	free(line);
-
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
2.17.1


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