When running make oldconfig cirtain configurations kconfig will coredump. This is triggered by an issue calculating the length of the result of expanding symbol values containing variables. This prevents builds on these configs. This bug was exposed by the commit below which _correctly_ fixed the usage of realloc(): commit 19c29f326075e2c66e34d98f2a0cf22901b2d8e9 Author: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu Sep 30 22:21:12 2010 +0200 kconfig: Fix realloc usage() -apw Andy Whitcroft (1): kconfig: sym_expand_string_value: allow for string termination when reallocing scripts/kconfig/symbol.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html