Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762968AbXISSsi (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:48:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756509AbXISSsa (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:48:30 -0400 Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:42133 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755859AbXISSsa (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:48:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:48:18 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Gabriel C Cc: Miles Lane , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Roman Zippel Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 Message-ID: <20070919184818.GA3651@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20070918011841.2381bd93.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070918191741.GA27725@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20070918202654.GA27836@uranus.ravnborg.org> <46F05378.8020907@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46F05378.8020907@googlemail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1380 Lines: 23 > Hi Sam, > > I can reproduce this bug on Frugalware Linux. > > Here the bt: > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0xb7dc4143 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6 > (gdb) bt > #0 0xb7dc4143 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6 > #1 0x0804fd60 in str_append (gs=0xbfe4f6e8, s=0x0) at scripts/kconfig/util.c:87 So the string is null and we call strlen(null) => boom. Thanks - will post a fix in a few minutes. Need to investigate a bit more why I do not see the crash even though I updated to ubuntu gutsy to check it out?!? Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/