From: "M. Vefa Bicakci" <m.v.b@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 0c5b6c28ed68becb692b43eae5e44d5aa7e160ce upstream. Prior to this commit, starting nconfig, xconfig or gconfig, and saving the .config file more than once caused data loss, where a .config file that contained only comments would be written to disk starting from the second save operation. This bug manifests itself because the SYMBOL_WRITTEN flag is never cleared after the first call to conf_write, and subsequent calls to conf_write then skip all of the configuration symbols due to the SYMBOL_WRITTEN flag being set. This commit resolves this issue by clearing the SYMBOL_WRITTEN flag from all symbols before conf_write returns. Fixes: 8e2442a5f86e ("kconfig: fix missing choice values in auto.conf") Cc: linux-stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.19+ Signed-off-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <m.v.b@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c index fd99ae90a618..0dde19cf7486 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c +++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c @@ -784,6 +784,7 @@ int conf_write(const char *name) const char *str; char dirname[PATH_MAX+1], tmpname[PATH_MAX+22], newname[PATH_MAX+8]; char *env; + int i; dirname[0] = 0; if (name && name[0]) { @@ -860,6 +861,9 @@ int conf_write(const char *name) } fclose(out); + for_all_symbols(i, sym) + sym->flags &= ~SYMBOL_WRITTEN; + if (*tmpname) { strcat(dirname, basename); strcat(dirname, ".old"); -- 2.17.1