fix: fw_env: Prevent writing error message on special files, which don't support...
authorLukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>
Sun, 27 Aug 2017 11:46:22 +0000 (13:46 +0200)
committerTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Sun, 3 Sep 2017 19:30:31 +0000 (15:30 -0400)
commit40fe89c6e83791f1f9cd079d7d6b51598c4a5925
tree17faca41ed0ffab9c1d7f30de4b0b576b950e983
parent8f1603bd78a31f52927d398f600e47e2452997a6
fix: fw_env: Prevent writing error message on special files, which don't support fsync

According to fsync specification [1] some special files (e.g., a pipe, FIFO,
or socket) don't support synchronization and return either EROFS or EINVAL.

On the linux side the sys_fsync -> do_fsync() checks if the requested file
has f_op->fsync defined. If not it returns EINVAL [2].

This commit prevents writing error messages for files (devices), which
do not support fsync().

[1] - http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fsync.2.html
[2] - http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v4.13-rc6/source/fs/sync.c#L183

Signed-off-by: Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>
Acked-by: Michael Heimpold <mhei@heimpold.de>
tools/env/fw_env.c