From 0c667188e0c6cda615a036b8a2b4125f2c404dde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SaltyMilk <soufiane.elmelcaoui@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2023 21:43:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fopen: optimize

Closes #11419
---
 lib/fopen.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/fopen.c b/lib/fopen.c
index c9c9e3d6e73a2..b6e3cadddef65 100644
--- a/lib/fopen.c
+++ b/lib/fopen.c
@@ -56,13 +56,13 @@ CURLcode Curl_fopen(struct Curl_easy *data, const char *filename,
   int fd = -1;
   *tempname = NULL;
 
-  if(stat(filename, &sb) == -1 || !S_ISREG(sb.st_mode)) {
-    /* a non-regular file, fallback to direct fopen() */
-    *fh = fopen(filename, FOPEN_WRITETEXT);
-    if(*fh)
-      return CURLE_OK;
+  *fh = fopen(filename, FOPEN_WRITETEXT);
+  if(!*fh)
     goto fail;
-  }
+  if(fstat(fileno(*fh), &sb) == -1 || !S_ISREG(sb.st_mode))
+    return CURLE_OK;
+  fclose(*fh);
+  *fh = NULL;
 
   result = Curl_rand_hex(data, randsuffix, sizeof(randsuffix));
   if(result)