[PATCH] fail on close() failure in gzip
Ian Wienand
ianw at vmware.com
Mon Sep 28 21:22:52 UTC 2009
Hi,
This is also a bit of an RFC; the return value of close() is
important, but it is rarely checked.
We tend to notice this more on our kernel because of our buffer cache
implementation, but I think it's generally the right thing to do.
xclose should probably be used more liberally, but gzip was one where
I saw the problem.
-i
diff --git a/archival/bbunzip.c b/archival/bbunzip.c
index d25f509..a0505cc 100644
--- a/archival/bbunzip.c
+++ b/archival/bbunzip.c
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ int FAST_FUNC bbunpack(char **argv,
status = unpacker(&info);
if (status < 0)
exitcode = 1;
+ xclose(STDOUT_FILENO);
if (filename) {
char *del = new_name;
@@ -108,10 +109,13 @@ int FAST_FUNC bbunpack(char **argv,
times.actime = info.mtime;
times.modtime = info.mtime;
- /* Close first.
- * On some systems calling utime
- * then closing resets the mtime. */
- close(STDOUT_FILENO);
+
+ /* Note the file was closed
+ * above -- on some systems
+ * calling utime then closing
+ * resets the mtime which we
+ * don't want! */
+
/* Ignoring errors */
utime(new_name, ×);
}
diff --git a/include/libbb.h b/include/libbb.h
index 8ecde5b..22d2c04 100644
--- a/include/libbb.h
+++ b/include/libbb.h
@@ -629,6 +629,9 @@ extern void xwrite(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count) FAST_FUNC;
extern void xwrite_str(int fd, const char *str) FAST_FUNC;
extern void xopen_xwrite_close(const char* file, const char *str) FAST_FUNC;
+/* Close fd, but check for failures (e.g. failed delayed writes from NFS, etc) */
+extern void xclose(int fd) FAST_FUNC;
+
/* Reads and prints to stdout till eof, then closes FILE. Exits on error: */
extern void xprint_and_close_file(FILE *file) FAST_FUNC;
diff --git a/libbb/xfuncs_printf.c b/libbb/xfuncs_printf.c
index 5f56b36..aaf9989 100644
--- a/libbb/xfuncs_printf.c
+++ b/libbb/xfuncs_printf.c
@@ -213,6 +213,12 @@ void FAST_FUNC xwrite_str(int fd, const char *str)
xwrite(fd, str, strlen(str));
}
+void FAST_FUNC xclose(int fd)
+{
+ if (close(fd))
+ bb_perror_msg_and_die("close failed");
+}
+
// Die with an error message if we can't lseek to the right spot.
off_t FAST_FUNC xlseek(int fd, off_t offset, int whence)
{
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