linux-kernel - [PATCH] kconfig: fix return value of do_error

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Date:   Sun, 20 Dec 2020 03:18:42 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kconfig: fix return value of do_error_if()

Kconfig expands a macro to a string. $(error-if,...) should be expanded
to an empty string, not NULL.

Fixes: 1d6272e6fe43 ("kconfig: add 'info', 'warning-if', and 'error-if' built-in functions")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
---

 scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c b/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c
index 0243086fb168..0590f86df6e4 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/preprocess.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static char *do_error_if(int argc, char *argv[])
 	if (!strcmp(argv[0], "y"))
 		pperror("%s", argv[1]);
 
-	return NULL;
+	return xstrdup("");
 }
 
 static char *do_filename(int argc, char *argv[])
-- 
2.27.0