[libc-commits] [libc] [libc] fwrite_unlocked: only return errno if an actual error occurred. (PR #167350)

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https://github.com/Sterling-Augustine created https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/167350

fwrite and friends don't modify errno if no error occurred. Therefore frite_unlocked's return value shouldn't be constructed from errno without checking if an error actually occurred.

>From 2ccd1267a37cec3a7b92d5edf92cadfa9aef897d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sterling Augustine <saugustine at google.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:37:37 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [libc] fwrite_unlocked: only return errno if an actual error
 occurred.

fwrite and friends don't modify errno if no error occurred. Therefore
frite_unlocked's return value shouldn't be constructed from errno
without checking if an error actually occurred.
---
 libc/src/stdio/printf_core/vfprintf_internal.h | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libc/src/stdio/printf_core/vfprintf_internal.h b/libc/src/stdio/printf_core/vfprintf_internal.h
index 564441d3bf51a..a14ddee5f62fd 100644
--- a/libc/src/stdio/printf_core/vfprintf_internal.h
+++ b/libc/src/stdio/printf_core/vfprintf_internal.h
@@ -51,8 +51,14 @@ LIBC_INLINE void funlockfile(::FILE *f) { ::funlockfile(f); }
 LIBC_INLINE FileIOResult fwrite_unlocked(const void *ptr, size_t size,
                                          size_t nmemb, ::FILE *f) {
   // Need to use system errno in this case, as system write will set this errno
-  // which we need to propagate back into our code.
-  return {::fwrite_unlocked(ptr, size, nmemb, f), errno};
+  // which we need to propagate back into our code. fwrite only modifies errno
+  // if there was an error, and errno may have previously been nonzero. Only
+  // return errno if there was an error.
+  auto bytes = ::fwrite_unlocked(ptr, size, nmemb, f);
+  if (bytes == nmemb * size)
+    return bytes;
+  else
+    return errno;
 }
 #endif // LIBC_COPT_STDIO_USE_SYSTEM_FILE
 } // namespace internal