linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nconfig: Fix segfault when help contains special characters

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Date:	Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:25:50 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Stephen Boyd <bebarino@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nconfig: Fix segfault when help contains special characters

On 23.7.2010 09:04, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> nconfig segfaults when help text contains the character '%'. For a quick
> example, navigate to the kernel compression options and get the help for
> bzip2. Doing so triggers a call to mvwprintw() with a string containing
> '%' and no extra arguments to fill in the specifier's value. Fix this
> case by printing the literal string retrieved from the kconfig.

Thanks, applied.

Michal
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