[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 008/114] powerpc/boot: Fix missing check of lseek() return value

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Thu May 23 05:28:31 AEST 2019


From: Bo YU <tsu.yubo at gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 5d085ec04a000fefb5182d3b03ee46ca96d8389b ]

This is detected by Coverity scan: CID: 1440481

Signed-off-by: Bo YU <tsu.yubo at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/boot/addnote.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/addnote.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/addnote.c
index 9d9f6f334d3cc..3da3e2b1b51bc 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/addnote.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/addnote.c
@@ -223,7 +223,11 @@ main(int ac, char **av)
 	PUT_16(E_PHNUM, np + 2);
 
 	/* write back */
-	lseek(fd, (long) 0, SEEK_SET);
+	i = lseek(fd, (long) 0, SEEK_SET);
+	if (i < 0) {
+		perror("lseek");
+		exit(1);
+	}
 	i = write(fd, buf, n);
 	if (i < 0) {
 		perror("write");
-- 
2.20.1



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