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

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Message-ID: <AANLkTikK71ttjp0-NEyg9JCrj2fO8AdsUjPwqTVFTxV=@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:30:11 +0300
From:	Nir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@...il.com>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	Stephen Boyd <bebarino@...il.com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nconfig: Fix segfault when help contains special 
	characters

2010/7/23 Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>:
> 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


Thanks. It is also nice to see people are using nconfig.

Cheers.
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