[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.
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