Bug 597793

Summary: fileno (NULL) segfaults instead of return -1 and set errno to EBADF
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan F. Chadima <jchadima>
Component: glibcAssignee: Andreas Schwab <schwab>
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Description Jan F. Chadima 2010-05-30 14:33:56 UTC
Description of problem:
the function fileno crash the program, if called with NULL parameter
according to the documentation it should return -1 and set errno

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.12.90-1.i686

How reproducible:
alvays

Steps to Reproduce:
compille and run:
#include <stdio.h>

int
main()
{
printf ("%d\n", fileno (NULL));
}
  
Actual results:
SIGSEGV

Expected results:
-1

Comment 1 Andreas Schwab 2010-05-31 08:32:12 UTC
NULL is not a pointer to a stream.

Comment 2 Jan F. Chadima 2010-05-31 10:41:23 UTC
NULL is the valid return value of fopen &tc.. so NULL can be considered as pointer to unopened stream.

Comment 3 Andreas Schwab 2010-05-31 10:52:26 UTC
NULL is not a pointer to a stream.

Comment 4 Jan F. Chadima 2010-05-31 11:10:51 UTC
from fileno man page:

ERRORS
       These  functions  should  not  fail and do not set the external variable errno.  (However, in case fileno() detects that its argument is not a valid stream, it must return -1 and set
       errno to EBADF.)

Comment 6 Jakub Jelinek 2010-05-31 11:31:25 UTC
Note that EBADF in this case is a MAY FAIL rather than MUST FAIL, so while fileno could return -1/EBADF in that case, it doesn't have to.  And slowing the function down to cope with broken callers isn't a good idea.

Comment 7 Andreas Schwab 2010-05-31 11:48:14 UTC
That is irrelevant since NULL is not a pointer to a stream.