Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1

Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-19T18:48:38Z

> 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