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[3.8.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "menuconfig: Fix memory leak introduced by jump keys feature" has been added to staging queue

Message ID 1369259719-24042-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com
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Kamal Mostafa May 22, 2013, 9:55 p.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    menuconfig: Fix memory leak introduced by jump keys feature

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From 87d6aa8c0ac8526bcb6f1b775cf290a9cec19ca2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:13:50 -0400
Subject: menuconfig: Fix memory leak introduced by jump keys feature

commit edb749f4390b3c1604233dc7c4fb0361f472e712 upstream.

Fixes the memory leak of struct jump_key allocated in get_prompt_str()

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.de>
Tested-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
[ kamal: backport to 3.8 ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 scripts/kconfig/list.h  | 13 +++++++++++++
 scripts/kconfig/mconf.c |  3 +++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

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1.8.1.2
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diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/list.h b/scripts/kconfig/list.h
index 0ae730b..b87206c 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/list.h
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/list.h
@@ -51,6 +51,19 @@  struct list_head {
 	     pos = list_entry(pos->member.next, typeof(*pos), member))

 /**
+ * list_for_each_entry_safe - iterate over list of given type safe against removal of list entry
+ * @pos:	the type * to use as a loop cursor.
+ * @n:		another type * to use as temporary storage
+ * @head:	the head for your list.
+ * @member:	the name of the list_struct within the struct.
+ */
+#define list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, n, head, member)			\
+	for (pos = list_entry((head)->next, typeof(*pos), member),	\
+		n = list_entry(pos->member.next, typeof(*pos), member);	\
+	     &pos->member != (head);					\
+	     pos = n, n = list_entry(n->member.next, typeof(*n), member))
+
+/**
  * list_empty - tests whether a list is empty
  * @head: the list to test.
  */
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c b/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
index 53975cf..07afe0b 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
@@ -383,6 +383,7 @@  again:
 			.targets = targets,
 			.keys = keys,
 		};
+		struct jump_key *pos, *tmp;

 		res = get_relations_str(sym_arr, &head);
 		dres = show_textbox_ext(_("Search Results"), (char *)
@@ -396,6 +397,8 @@  again:
 				again = true;
 			}
 		str_free(&res);
+		list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, tmp, &head, entries)
+			free(pos);
 	} while (again);
 	free(sym_arr);
 }