Re: SymSearch can cause make nconfig to segfault

Vivien Gallinaro
2023-11-10T20:34:37Z

On 11/8/23, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 11/7/23, Jesse T wrote:
>> On 11/7/23 Vivien Gallinaro wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.

Exactly.

>> I can not recreate this error on my machine unfortunately are you
>> using the tar release?
>> What distro are you using?

Gentoo, but checking with the (then) stable 6.6 tarball.

> I also cannot recreate this issue.
> FWIW.
>
> More info needed.

That was good news. I tried to investigate a little deeper with strace,
gdb… a little too deep for me actually. Then I eventually remembered:
even though my install is pretty fresh, I've been a bit sloppy on
maintenance, leaving one stuff to the side to catter to another, a few
times over. One global update later — meaning I only have /usr/src in a
corny state, now — I don't get the segfault either. Sorry, pebkac.

Thanks for your time,
VG