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| author |   Jerry James <loganjerry@gmail.com> | 2018-06-23 22:49:04 +0200 |
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| committer |   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> | 2018-06-28 22:48:08 +0900 |
| commit | 73d1c580f92b203f4c3a189ee98c917c65712f7e (patch) | |
| tree | f5f4a1a5b4d02a109a2a60feec525d8a5aeb39eb /include/linux | |
| parent | kbuild: reword help of LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION (diff) | |
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kconfig: loop boundary condition fix
If buf[-1] just happens to hold the byte 0x0A, then nread can wrap around
to (size_t)-1, leading to invalid memory accesses.
This has caused segmentation faults when trying to build the latest
kernel snapshots for i686 in Fedora:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1592374
Signed-off-by: Jerry James <loganjerry@gmail.com>
[alexpl@fedoraproject.org: reformatted patch for submission]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Ploumistos <alexpl@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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