Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933717Ab1D2TFq (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:05:46 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:50299 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933134Ab1D2S62 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:58:28 -0400 X-Mailbox-Line: From gregkh@clark.kroah.org Fri Apr 29 11:56:55 2011 Message-Id: <20110429185655.177491599@clark.kroah.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.48-16.4 Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:55:50 -0700 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Cc: stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Ben Hutchings Subject: [27/55] kconfig: Avoid buffer underrun in choice input In-Reply-To: <20110429185706.GA12824@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1518 Lines: 44 2.6.38-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Ben Hutchings commit 3ba41621156681afcdbcd624e3191cbc65eb94f4 upstream. Commit 40aee729b350 ('kconfig: fix default value for choice input') fixed some cases where kconfig would select the wrong option from a choice with a single valid option and thus enter an infinite loop. However, this broke the test for user input of the form 'N?', because when kconfig selects the single valid option the input is zero-length and the test will read the byte before the input buffer. If this happens to contain '?' (as it will in a mips build on Debian unstable today) then kconfig again enters an infinite loop. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- scripts/kconfig/conf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/scripts/kconfig/conf.c +++ b/scripts/kconfig/conf.c @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static int conf_choice(struct menu *menu } if (!child) continue; - if (line[strlen(line) - 1] == '?') { + if (line[0] && line[strlen(line) - 1] == '?') { print_help(child); continue; } -- 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/