Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:48:26AM +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
> Gabriel C wrote:
> > Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:42:58PM -0400, Miles Lane wrote:
> >>> On 9/18/07, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Miles.
> >>>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:27:23AM -0400, Miles Lane wrote:
> >>>>> Selecting Help for "Subarchitecture Type" causes "make menuconfig" to
> >>>>> crash, and the bash display settings have to be reset.
> >>>> Not reproduceable here.
> >>>> But I noticed that we pass a null pointer to a vsprintf function which
> >>>> in the cases you pointed out printed a (null) at my system.
> >>>> Could you plase try if attached patch fix your system.
> >>> Sorry, it still crashes.  I am running Ubuntu pre-6.10 (Gutsy -- the
> >>> development version of the distro).  Maybe I should try "make
> >>> mrproper" first?
> >> make mrproper should not do any difference here.
> >> I rather think you hit some ncurses bug.
> >>
> >> If you could add '-g' to HOSTCFLAGS in top-level Makefile
> >> and then do:
> >> rm scripts/kconfig/mconf.o scripts/kconfig/mconf
> >> make menuconfig
> >>
> >> (to build mconf and to check that the error is still reproduceable).
> >> And then run it in a debugger like this:
> >> gdb scripts/kconfig/mconf
> >> run arch/x86_64/Kconfig
> >>          ^^^^^^ replace with your actual arch
> >>
> >> Provoke the error and get a back-trace with 'bt'.
> > 
> > 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                                                                                                  
> > #2  0x0804e0cb in expr_print (e=0x8e22df8, fn=0x804fda0 <expr_print_gstr_helper>, data=0xbfe4f6e8, prevtoken=0) at scripts/kconfig/expr.c:1037                                    
> > #3  0x0804e1e7 in expr_gstr_print (e=0x8e22df8, gs=0xbfe4f6e8) at scripts/kconfig/expr.c:1099                                                                                     
> > #4  0x0804a07e in get_symbol_str (r=0xbfe4f6e8, sym=0x8b54ee8) at scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:334                                                                                     
> > #5  0x0804a363 in show_help (menu=0x8b54f88) at scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:738                                                                                                       
> > #6  0x0804acec in conf (menu=0x8b69480) at scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:781                                                                                                            
> > #7  0x0804a971 in conf (menu=0x8063c40) at scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:703                                                                                                            
> > #8  0x0804af8a in main (ac=Cannot access memory at address 0x0                                                                                                                    
> > ) at scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:917
> > 
> > 
> > Looks somewhat strange -> http://194.231.229.228/menuconfig.png
> > 
> > PS: Is without the patch you posted , I'll try with in a bit
> 
> The crash is still there but the (null)'s are all fixed by this patch.

Got it. We sometimes get a numm pointer when printing the expression (in expr.c).
I have queued following fix.

Thanks for reporting!

	Sam

Patch is copy'n'pased due to temporary setup troubles after upgradign to Gutsy.
Will be at kbuil.git in a few minutes.