[PATCH v2 03/21] kallsyms: output binary data to speed output and kallsyms assembly

[Markus Elfring]

…
> +++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
…
> @@ -413,26 +438,24 @@ static void write_src(void)
>  		/* Encode length with ULEB128. */
>  		if (table[i]->len <= 0x7F) {
>  			/* Most symbols use a single byte for the length. */
> -			printf("\t.byte 0x%02x", table[i]->len);
> +			fputc(table[i]->len, out_bin_file);
>  			off += table[i]->len + 1;
>  		} else {
>  			/* "Big" symbols use two bytes. */
> -			printf("\t.byte 0x%02x, 0x%02x",
> -				(table[i]->len & 0x7F) | 0x80,
> -				(table[i]->len >> 7) & 0x7F);
> +			fputc((table[i]->len & 0x7F) | 0x80, out_bin_file);
> +			fputc((table[i]->len >> 7) & 0x7F, out_bin_file);
>  			off += table[i]->len + 2;
>  		}
> -		for (k = 0; k < table[i]->len; k++)
> -			printf(", 0x%02x", table[i]->sym[k]);
> +		fwrite(table[i]->sym, 1, table[i]->len, out_bin_file);
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * Now that we wrote out the compressed symbol name, restore the
> -		 * original name and print it in the comment.
> +		 * original name for the comments below.
>  		 */
>  		expand_symbol(table[i]->sym, table[i]->len, buf);
>  		strcpy((char *)table[i]->sym, buf);
> -		printf("\t/* %s */\n", table[i]->sym);
>  	}
> +	write_incbin(out_bin_name, bin_start, bin_pos(out_bin_file));
>  	printf(".size kallsyms_names, . - kallsyms_names\n");
>  	printf("\n");
>  
…

I suggest to avoid return value ignorance a bit more.
https://cmu-sei.github.io/secure-coding-standards/sei-cert-c-coding-standard/rules/error-handling-err/err33-c/
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/252.html

Regards,
Markus