[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 081/210] uml: flush stdout before forking

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3.19.8-ckt14 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 0754fb298f2f2719f0393491d010d46cfb25d043 upstream.

I was seeing some really weird behaviour where piping UML's output
somewhere would cause output to get duplicated:

  $ ./vmlinux | head -n 40
  Checking that ptrace can change system call numbers...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Checking syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Checking advanced syscall emulation patch for ptrace...Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE
  OK
  Core dump limits :
          soft - 0
          hard - NONE

This is because these tests do a fork() which duplicates the non-empty
stdout buffer, then glibc flushes the duplicated buffer as each child
exits.

A simple workaround is to flush before forking.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c
index 337518c..b412c62 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c
@@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ static int start_ptraced_child(void)
 {
 	int pid, n, status;
 
+	fflush(stdout);
+
 	pid = fork();
 	if (pid == 0)
 		ptrace_child();
-- 
1.9.1

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