linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] qconf: fix SIGSEGV on empty menu items

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Date:	Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:46:45 +0100
From:	Bauke Jan Douma <bjdouma@...all.nl>
To:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
CC:	"Cyrill V. Gorcunov" <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qconf: fix SIGSEGV on empty menu items

Roman Zippel wrote on 06-01-07 04:20:

<snip>

> Thanks, but this is more complex than necessary.
> It simply lacks some initializers.

<snip>

> ---
> Index: linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc	2007-01-05 01:47:54.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc	2007-01-05 01:56:54.000000000 +0100
> @@ -915,7 +915,7 @@ void ConfigView::updateListAll(void)
>  }
>  
>  ConfigInfoView::ConfigInfoView(QWidget* parent, const char *name)
> -	: Parent(parent, name), menu(0)
> +	: Parent(parent, name), menu(0), sym(0)
>  {
>  	if (name) {
>  		configSettings->beginGroup(name);
> @@ -951,6 +951,7 @@ void ConfigInfoView::setInfo(struct menu
>  	if (menu == m)
>  		return;
>  	menu = m;
> +	sym = NULL;
>  	if (!menu)
>  		clear();
>  	else
> -

I can confirm that this patch squashed the segfault.

bjd


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