fwts: syntaxcheck sometimes fails when redirecting stdout to a file

[Colin Ian King]

Redirecting stdout to a file on syntax check never produces any failures. stdout from IASL output needs to be fflushed to push it out the pipe to the parent that gathers the data.

On inspecting fwts_iasl_assemble_aml() it appears that we need a fflush(). Also the reader on the parent is realloc'ing data and not checking for a null pointer out of memory condition.

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

fix committed, commit ef63938977520b5c40ed7bbe6f9ffca8e6a52bca

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package fwts - 13.08.00-0ubuntu1

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fwts (13.08.00-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  [Alex Hung]
  * dmi: dmi_decode: merge smbios test as they both check dmi/smbios
  * dmi: rename dmi_decode test to dmicheck

  [Colin Ian King]
  * uefi: uefirtvariable: minor cleanup of failure message
  * uefi: uefirtvariable: add options to specify iterations in variable stress
      tests (LP: #1197742)
  * efi_runtime: Fix efi_runtime build warnings (LP: #1198168)
  * efi_runtime: ensure it always builds for kernels > 3.0.0 (LP: #1198168)
  * efi_runtime: memset the entire structure (LP: #1198236)
  * lib: add acpica mode types
  * lib: framework: add new acpica mode flags
  * lib: acpica: set various ACPICA global mode flags depending on acpica_mode
  * lib: fwts_framework: add support for new --acpica option
  * acpi: method: handle ACPICA slack mode gracefully
  * doc: add --acpica option to man page
  * acpi: syntaxcheck: use ASL_MESSAGE_TYPES instead of #defining them
      (LP: #1200568)
  * acpi: syntaxcheck: ensure error message strings are in sync with error
      (LP: #1200568)
  * lib: fwts_log: set non-TTY log with to 80 characters (LP: #1200592)
  * acpi: syntaxcheck: fix spelling mistake (LP: #1200602)
  * fwts_iasl_interface.c: ensure we read in all of stdout (LP: #1200426)
  * data: klog.json: rename "Common" label prefix to "Klog", (LP: #1201311)
  * data: klog.json: Update patterns to keep in sync with Linux 3.10
      (LP: #1201335)
  * bios: hdaaudio: skip the test if no BIOS pin config found (LP: #1201903)
  * pci: aspm: test should skip if it can't read FACP or PCIe config
      (LP: #1201909)
  * docs: remove legacy notes created during early fwts development
  * smatchify.sh: fix spelling mistake
  * bios: mtrr: fix spelling mistake
  * acpica: Makefile.am: fix spelling mistake
  * data: syntaxcheck.json: fix spelling mistakes
  * data: klog.json: fix spelling mistakes
  * docs: fwts.1: fix spelling mistake
  * doc: fwts-frontend-text.1: fix spelling mistake
  * ACPICA: update to version 20130725 (LP: #1205203)
  * acpi: syntaxcheck: strcpy should be replaced with strncpy (LP: #1205215)
  * acpi: method: check for NULL buf before dereferencing it (LP: #1205267)
  * lib: fwts_alloc: use plain old mmap on 32 bit machines (LP: #1204065)
  * ACPICA BZ 1035 fixes segfault with too many ^^^^^^ prefixes.
      (LP: #1205714)
  * lib: fwts_log_json: check sting from json is not null (LP: #1206285)
  * acpi: acpidump: fix segfault on BERT entries (LP: #1206643)
  * data: klog.json: Add some firmware related kernel warnings (LP: #1206958)
  * utils: kernelscan: also scan for warning messages (LP: #1206953)
  * lib: fwts_log_json: enable json human readable formatting (LP: #1206290)

  [Zhang Rui]
  * update README_ACPICA to reflect the real ACPICA repo
 -- Keng-Yu Lin <email address hidden> Wed, 07 Aug 2013 10:27:51 +0800