Re: SymSearch can cause make nconfig to segfault

Randy Dunlap
2023-11-08T06:00:49Z

On 11/7/23 19:06, Jesse T wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 9:30 PM Vivien Gallinaro
> <vivien.gallinaro@free.fr> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In make nconfig, when I perform a SymSearch (F8) for "x86", I get a
>> segfault. It doesn't happen in make menuconfig (/ search).
>>
>> It doesn't seem to be a simple matter of "too many results" as a
>> SymSearch for "fs" does ok.
>>
>>
>> For a fresh 6.6 kernel :
>>
>> $ cd linux-6.6
>> $ make mrproper
>> $ make nconfig 2>../blarb
>> (<F8> x86 <enter>)
>> $ reset
>
> I'm assuming "reset" here means you got put back into your shell and are
> resetting the terminal state.
>
>> $ cat ../blarb
>>
>> gives :
>>
>> make[2]: *** [scripts/kconfig/Makefile:48: nconfig] Segmentation fault
>> make[1]: *** [/home/username/linux-6.6/Makefile:697: nconfig] Error 2
>> make: *** [Makefile:234: __sub-make] Error 2
>
> I can not recreate this error on my machine unfortunately are you
> using the tar release?
> What distro are you using?
>
> Thanks,
> Jesse Taube
>>
>>
>> That's not very helpful, I know… looking up "x86" was not particularly
>> useful either! (I was following a wiki referring to x86_sysfb. Before I
>> realized it probably doesn't exist any more, I tried to widen the
>> search, since I had just come across the deprecation of efi_vars in
>> favor of efivar_fs, so to speak.) I hope some one can help the search
>> fail gracefully.
>>
>> Have a nice day,
>> VG

I also cannot recreate this issue.
FWIW.

More info needed.

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~Randy