C Programming - fprintf and printf in while cicle doesn't work

I'm getting a strange problem with a while cicle inside of a function.

I have to look for the extreme vertices of a .ply model. All the data is stored in a linked list. When I'm done creating the list, I call the findExtremeVertex function, that modifies 6 global variables (leftVertex, rightVertex, downwardVertex, upwardVertex, backVertex and frontVertex).

To see if the values are right (the models I use are a bit too big to control every single line to find the maximum of every vertex) I decided to print every change in the max-min values but, when I try to print them in a file, the file is empty. Why is that? Also, when I saw that the file was empty, I tried to print something directly in the console but that didn't work either.

Here's the code of the funcion:

void findExtremeVertex(Vertex *vertex){
    FILE *modelInfoFile;
    int i = 0;

    ///Giving data to direction-vertices pointers
    leftVertex = malloc(sizeof(Vertex));
    rightVertex = malloc(sizeof(Vertex));
    upwardVertex = malloc(sizeof(Vertex));
    downwardVertex = malloc(sizeof(Vertex));
    frontVertex = malloc(sizeof(Vertex));
    backVertex = malloc(sizeof(Vertex));

    ///Giving the direction-vertices the values of the parameter
    leftVertex = vertex;
    rightVertex = vertex;
    upwardVertex = vertex;
    downwardVertex = vertex;
    frontVertex = vertex;
    backVertex = vertex;

    ///Opening file
    modelInfoFile = fopen(us2, "w");
    if(modelInfoFile == NULL){
        printf("Error in file opening. Exiting.");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    ///Scrolling the list
    while(vertex->prev != NULL){
        vertex = vertex->prev;

        ///If the given element of the list is more to the right than the global variable,
        ///I assign the values of the element to the global variable
        if(vertex->vertexCoordinates.x > rightVertex->vertexCoordinates.x){
            rightVertex = vertex;
        }

        /**
            I'm omitting the other if constructs because are basically
            the same, but the syntax is correct
        **/

        ///Printing in file the cycle information
        fprintf(modelInfoFile, "********** CYCLE %d **********\n\n", i);
        fprintf(modelInfoFile, "Vertex sx\n");
        fprintf(modelInfoFile, "%1.4f %1.4f %1.4f %1.4f %1.4f %1.4f\n\n", leftVertex->vertexCoordinates.x,
                                                                      leftVertex->vertexCoordinates.y,
                                                                      leftVertex->vertexCoordinates.z,
                                                                      leftVertex->vertexNormals.x,
                                                                      leftVertex->vertexNormals.y,
                                                                      leftVertex->vertexNormals.z);

        /**
            Again, I'm omitting some repetitions but the syntax is correct
        **/
        }
    }

I call this function in another function, but there's no segmentation fault signal, the compiler doesn't tell me anything, the program doesn't crash. I have no clue of the error, except from the fact that the file where I print the infos about the cycles is empty. What am I doing wrong?

via Chebli Mohamed