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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c: fix resource leakage
On 01/14/2013 10:14 AM, Cong Ding wrote:
> the file should be closed if it goes to error.
>

What tool are you using to generate all these patches?


> Signed-off-by: Cong Ding <dinggnu@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c
> index 958a641..e29154f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy.c
> @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>
> if (fread(&olen, sizeof(olen), 1, f) != 1) {
> perror(argv[1]);
> + fclose(f);

The next line is a return from main(). All FILEs will be automatically
closed by the C library, so your change is redundant.

The x86 maintainers can do what ever they want with it. But to me, it
seems like unnecessary code churn.

David Daney

> return 1;
> }
>
>



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