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Date:	Sun, 6 Oct 2013 01:54:20 +0800
From:	Wang YanQing <udknight@...il.com>
To:	Martin Walch <walch.martin@....de>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>,
	"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@...e.fr>,
	Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.de>,
	Dirk Gouders <dirk@...ders.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] kconfig: fix bug in search results string: use
 strlen(gstr->s), not gstr->len

On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 07:25:53PM +0200, Martin Walch wrote:
> From: Martin Walch <walch.martin@....de>
> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 18:35:16 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH v2 5/5] kconfig: fix bug in search results string: use strlen(gstr->s), not gstr->len
> 
> The struct gstr has a capacity that may differ from the actual string length.
> 
> However, a string manipulation in the function search_conf made the assumption
> that it is the same, which led to messing up some search results, especially
> when the content of the gstr in use had not yet reached at least 63 chars.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Walch <walch.martin@....de>
Acked-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@...il.com>

Thanks.
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