linux-kernel - [PATCH 06/30] kconfig: remove string expansion for mainmenu after yyparse()

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Date:   Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:06:15 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 06/30] kconfig: remove string expansion for mainmenu after yyparse()

Now that environments are expanded in the lexer, conf_parse() does
not need to expand them explicitly.

The hack introduced by commit 0724a7c32a54 ("kconfig: Don't leak
main menus during parsing") can go away.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Reviewed-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>
---

Changes in v3: None
Changes in v2:
  - Simplify the patch.  Just remove the text expansion.

 scripts/kconfig/zconf.y | 24 +++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y
index 3a4a0fa..22e318c 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/zconf.y
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static struct menu *current_menu, *current_entry;
 %%
 input: nl start | start;
 
-start: mainmenu_stmt stmt_list | no_mainmenu_stmt stmt_list;
+start: mainmenu_stmt stmt_list | stmt_list;
 
 /* mainmenu entry */
 
@@ -118,19 +118,6 @@ mainmenu_stmt: T_MAINMENU prompt nl
 	menu_add_prompt(P_MENU, $2, NULL);
 };
 
-/* Default main menu, if there's no mainmenu entry */
-
-no_mainmenu_stmt: /* empty */
-{
-	/*
-	 * Hack: Keep the main menu title on the heap so we can safely free it
-	 * later regardless of whether it comes from the 'prompt' in
-	 * mainmenu_stmt or here
-	 */
-	menu_add_prompt(P_MENU, xstrdup("Linux Kernel Configuration"), NULL);
-};
-
-
 stmt_list:
 	  /* empty */
 	| stmt_list common_stmt
@@ -528,7 +515,6 @@ word_opt: /* empty */			{ $$ = NULL; }
 
 void conf_parse(const char *name)
 {
-	const char *tmp;
 	struct symbol *sym;
 	int i;
 
@@ -544,10 +530,10 @@ void conf_parse(const char *name)
 	if (!modules_sym)
 		modules_sym = sym_find( "n" );
 
-	tmp = rootmenu.prompt->text;
-	rootmenu.prompt->text = _(rootmenu.prompt->text);
-	rootmenu.prompt->text = sym_expand_string_value(rootmenu.prompt->text);
-	free((char*)tmp);
+	if (!menu_has_prompt(&rootmenu)) {
+		current_entry = &rootmenu;
+		menu_add_prompt(P_MENU, "Linux Kernel Configuration", NULL);
+	}
 
 	menu_finalize(&rootmenu);
 	for_all_symbols(i, sym) {
-- 
2.7.4