From: Jerry James <loganjerry@xxxxxxxxx> If buf[-1] just happens to hold the byte 0x0A, then nread can wrap around to (size_t)-1, leading to invalid memory accesses. This has caused segmentation faults when trying to build the latest kernel snapshots for i686 in Fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1592374 Signed-off-by: Jerry James <loganjerry@xxxxxxxxx> [alexpl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: reformatted patch for submission] Signed-off-by: Alexander Ploumistos <alexpl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c b/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c index 65da87fce907..5ca2df790d3c 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c +++ b/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ static char *do_shell(int argc, char *argv[]) nread--; /* remove trailing new lines */ - while (buf[nread - 1] == '\n') + while (nread > 0 && buf[nread - 1] == '\n') nread--; buf[nread] = 0; -- 2.17.1 -- 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
