On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 03:27:05AM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > nconf does not check the validity of the current menu when help is requested > (with either <F2>, '?' or 'h'). This leads to a NULL pointer dereference when an > empty menu is encountered. > > The following reduced testcase exposes the problem: > > config DEP > bool > > menu "FOO" > > config BAR > bool "BAR" > depends on DEP > > endmenu > > Issue will happen when entering menu "FOO" and requesting help. > > nconf is the only front-end which do not filter the validity of the current > menu. Such filter can not really happen beforehand as other key which does not > deals with the current menu might be entered by the user, so just bails out > earlier if we encounter an invalid menu. > > Cc: Nir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Andrej Gelenberg <andrej.gelenberg@xxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Andrej Gelenberg <andrej.gelenberg@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@xxxxxxxxx> Thanks, applied both patches to kbuild-2.6.git#kconfig. Michal -- 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
