[PATCH] selftests: arm64: Check fread return value in exec_target

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Thu Aug 7 12:23:01 PDT 2025


On Thu, Aug 07, 2025 at 09:19:47PM +0530, Bala-Vignesh-Reddy wrote:

> Fix -Wunused-result warning generated when compiled with gcc 13.3.0,
> by checking fread's return value and handling errors, preventing
> potential failures when reading from stdin.
> 
> Fixes compiler warning:
> warning: ignoring return value of 'fread' declared with attribute
> 'warn_unused_result' [-Wunused-result]

> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/pauth/exec_target.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/pauth/exec_target.c
> @@ -13,7 +13,12 @@ int main(void)

> -	fread(&val, sizeof(size_t), 1, stdin);
> +	size_t size = fread(&val, sizeof(size_t), 1, stdin);
> +
> +	if (size != 1) {
> +		fprintf(stderr, "Could not read input from stdin\n");
> +		return -1;
> +	}

It doesn't really matter but it'd be nicer to return a standard value
from main(), EXIT_FAILURE is probably a good choice.  Exit values are in
the range 0..255.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 488 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/attachments/20250807/fbbc0e83/attachment.sig>


More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list