1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
index ac13f0ff8e81..c39327e60ea4 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ static void conf_write_string(bool headerfile, const char *name,
         while (1) {
                 l = strcspn(str, "\"\\");
                 if (l) {
-                        fwrite(str, l, 1, out);
+                        xfwrite(str, l, 1, out);
                         str += l;
                 }
                 if (!*str)