The patch below does not apply to the .39-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.
thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 466de9183570fe9fd21ef167951488fc9d513fcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:26:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] kconfig: Avoid buffer underrun in choice input commit 40aee729b350672c2550640622416a855e27938f ('kconfig: fix default value for choice input') fixed some cases where kconfig would select the wrong option from a choice with a single valid option and thus enter an infinite loop. However, this broke the test for user input of the form 'N?', because when kconfig selects the single valid option the input is zero-length and the test will read the byte before the input buffer. If this happens to contain '?' (as it will in a mips build on Debian unstable today) then kconfig again enters an infinite loop. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] [2.6.17+] Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <[email protected]> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c index 659326c..006ad81 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c +++ b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static int conf_choice(struct menu *menu) } if (!child) continue; - if (line[strlen(line) - 1] == '?') { + if (line[0] && line[strlen(line) - 1] == '?') { print_help(child); continue; } _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
