[PATCH V2] nanddump: check write function result for errors

[Rafał Miłecki]

Errors may happen, it's e.g. easy on embedded devices to run out of space
when dumping big partitions. This patch adds a helper function for
writing. It deals with partial writes and just returns 0 on success or
error number.

The old code didn't check for errors at all which could result in
incomplete dumps without exiting with an error.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
---
V2: Use sys_errmsg as in patch pointed by Richard.
    Call ofd_write also when using pretty output.
---
 nand-utils/nanddump.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nand-utils/nanddump.c b/nand-utils/nanddump.c
index 4ee7ed4..db1e1e5 100644
--- a/nand-utils/nanddump.c
+++ b/nand-utils/nanddump.c
@@ -293,6 +293,31 @@ nil:
 	linebuf[lx++] = '\0';
 }
 
+/**
+ * ofd_write - writes whole buffer to the file associated with a descriptor
+ *
+ * On failure an error (negative number) is returned. Otherwise 0 is returned.
+ */
+static int ofd_write(int ofd, const void *buf, size_t nbyte)
+{
+	const unsigned char *data = buf;
+	ssize_t bytes;
+
+	while (nbyte) {
+		bytes = write(ofd, data, nbyte);
+		if (bytes < 0) {
+			int err = -errno;
+
+			sys_errmsg("Unable to write to output");
+
+			return err;
+		}
+		data += bytes;
+		nbyte -= bytes;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
 
 /*
  * Main program
@@ -309,6 +334,7 @@ int main(int argc, char * const argv[])
 	bool eccstats = false;
 	unsigned char *readbuf = NULL, *oobbuf = NULL;
 	libmtd_t mtd_desc;
+	int err;
 
 	process_options(argc, argv);
 
@@ -443,10 +469,15 @@ int main(int argc, char * const argv[])
 			for (i = 0; i < bs; i += PRETTY_ROW_SIZE) {
 				pretty_dump_to_buffer(readbuf + i, PRETTY_ROW_SIZE,
 						pretty_buf, PRETTY_BUF_LEN, true, canonical, ofs + i);
-				write(ofd, pretty_buf, strlen(pretty_buf));
+				err = ofd_write(ofd, pretty_buf, strlen(pretty_buf));
+				if (err)
+					goto closeall;
 			}
-		} else
-			write(ofd, readbuf, bs);
+		} else {
+			err = ofd_write(ofd, readbuf, bs);
+			if (err)
+				goto closeall;
+		}
 
 		if (omitoob)
 			continue;
@@ -466,10 +497,15 @@ int main(int argc, char * const argv[])
 			for (i = 0; i < mtd.oob_size; i += PRETTY_ROW_SIZE) {
 				pretty_dump_to_buffer(oobbuf + i, mtd.oob_size - i,
 						pretty_buf, PRETTY_BUF_LEN, false, canonical, 0);
-				write(ofd, pretty_buf, strlen(pretty_buf));
+				err = ofd_write(ofd, pretty_buf, strlen(pretty_buf));
+				if (err)
+					goto closeall;
 			}
-		} else
-			write(ofd, oobbuf, mtd.oob_size);
+		} else {
+			err = ofd_write(ofd, oobbuf, mtd.oob_size);
+			if (err)
+				goto closeall;
+		}
 	}
 
 	/* Close the output file and MTD device, free memory */
-- 
1.8.4.5