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[iproute,v3,4/6] lib/bpf: Check return value of write()

Message ID 20170824094131.2963-5-phil@nwl.cc
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: stephen hemminger
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Commit Message

Phil Sutter Aug. 24, 2017, 9:41 a.m. UTC 
This is merely to silence the compiler warning. If write to stderr
failed, assume that printing an error message will fail as well so don't
even try.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
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 lib/bpf.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/lib/bpf.c b/lib/bpf.c
index 1dcb261dc915f..825e071cea572 100644
--- a/lib/bpf.c
+++ b/lib/bpf.c
@@ -591,7 +591,8 @@  int bpf_trace_pipe(void)
 
 		ret = read(fd, buff, sizeof(buff) - 1);
 		if (ret > 0) {
-			write(2, buff, ret);
+			if (write(STDERR_FILENO, buff, ret) != ret)
+				return -1;
 			fflush(stderr);
 		}
 	}