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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Brenda Streiff <brenda.streiff@ni.com>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 06/11] kconfig: let 'shell' return enough output for deep path names
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 11:01:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220220100123.GB7321@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220215153104.581786-6-sashal@kernel.org>

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Hi!

> [ Upstream commit 8a4c5b2a6d8ea079fa36034e8167de87ab6f8880 ]
> 
> The 'shell' built-in only returns the first 256 bytes of the command's
> output. In some cases, 'shell' is used to return a path; by bumping up
> the buffer size to 4096 this lets us capture up to PATH_MAX.

If the idea is to support up-to PATH_MAX, perhaps open-coded 4096
should be replaced by PATH_MAX in the code, too?

Best regards,
								Pavel

> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c
> @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static char *do_lineno(int argc, char *argv[])
>  static char *do_shell(int argc, char *argv[])
>  {
>  	FILE *p;
> -	char buf[256];
> +	char buf[4096];
>  	char *cmd;
>  	size_t nread;
>  	int i;

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      reply	other threads:[~2022-02-20 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20220215153104.581786-1-sashal@kernel.org>
2022-02-15 15:30 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 06/11] kconfig: let 'shell' return enough output for deep path names Sasha Levin
2022-02-20 10:01   ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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