linux/scripts/kconfig
Mihai Moldovan 8c94b430b9 kconfig: nconf: stop endless search loops
If the user selects the very first entry in a page and performs a
search-up operation, or selects the very last entry in a page and
performs a search-down operation that will not succeed (e.g., via
[/]asdfzzz[Up Arrow]), nconf will never terminate searching the page.

The reason is that in this case, the starting point will be set to -1
or n, which is then translated into (n - 1) (i.e., the last entry of
the page) or 0 (i.e., the first entry of the page) and finally the
search begins. This continues to work fine until the index reaches 0 or
(n - 1), at which point it will be decremented to -1 or incremented to
n, but not checked against the starting point right away. Instead, it's
wrapped around to the bottom or top again, after which the starting
point check occurs... and naturally fails.

My original implementation added another check for -1 before wrapping
the running index variable around, but Masahiro Yamada pointed out that
the actual issue is that the comparison point (starting point) exceeds
bounds (i.e., the [0,n-1] interval) in the first place and that,
instead, the starting point should be fixed.

This has the welcome side-effect of also fixing the case where the
starting point was n while searching down, which also lead to an
infinite loop.

OTOH, this code is now essentially all his work.

Amazingly, nobody seems to have been hit by this for 11 years - or at
the very least nobody bothered to debug and fix this.

Signed-off-by: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2021-04-16 14:39:12 +09:00
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lxdialog kconfig: lxdialog: A spello fix and a punctuation added 2021-04-14 15:22:49 +09:00
tests kconfig: change "modules" from sub-option to first-level attribute 2021-04-14 15:22:49 +09:00
.gitignore kconfig: qconf: compile moc object separately 2020-08-01 20:54:39 +09:00
conf.c kconfig: remove allnoconfig_y option 2021-04-14 15:22:49 +09:00
confdata.c kconfig: change sym_change_count to a boolean flag 2021-04-14 15:22:49 +09:00
expr.c kconfig: distinguish between dependencies and visibility in help text 2020-01-07 02:18:45 +09:00
expr.h kconfig: remove allnoconfig_y option 2021-04-14 15:22:49 +09:00
gconf-cfg.sh kconfig: do not require pkg-config on make {menu,n}config 2018-09-03 02:13:48 +09:00
gconf.c kconfig: fix an "implicit declaration of function" warning 2020-01-10 02:44:54 +09:00
gconf.glade scripts/kconfig/gconf.glade Update broken web addresses. 2010-09-17 16:54:42 +02:00
images.c kconfig: constify XPM data 2020-08-14 13:30:03 +09:00
images.h kconfig: constify XPM data 2020-08-14 13:30:03 +09:00
internal.h kconfig: split menu.c out of parser.y 2021-04-14 15:26:09 +09:00
lexer.l kconfig: change "modules" from sub-option to first-level attribute 2021-04-14 15:22:49 +09:00
list.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
lkc_proto.h kconfig: change sym_change_count to a boolean flag 2021-04-14 15:22:49 +09:00
lkc.h kconfig: change sym_change_count to a boolean flag 2021-04-14 15:22:49 +09:00
Makefile kconfig: split menu.c out of parser.y 2021-04-14 15:26:09 +09:00
mconf-cfg.sh kconfig: mconf: fix HOSTCC call 2021-01-27 03:17:42 +09:00
mconf.c kconfig: mconf,nconf: remove unneeded '\0' termination after snprintf() 2021-04-14 15:22:49 +09:00
menu.c kconfig: split menu.c out of parser.y 2021-04-14 15:26:09 +09:00
merge_config.sh merge_config.sh: ignore unwanted grep errors 2019-09-04 23:12:50 +09:00
nconf-cfg.sh kconfig: be more helpful if pkg-config is missing 2019-11-11 20:10:01 +09:00
nconf.c kconfig: nconf: stop endless search loops 2021-04-16 14:39:12 +09:00
nconf.gui.c kconfig: nconf: refactor in print_in_middle() 2021-04-14 15:25:43 +09:00
nconf.h kconfig: nconf: refactor in print_in_middle() 2021-04-14 15:25:43 +09:00
parser.y kconfig: split menu.c out of parser.y 2021-04-14 15:26:09 +09:00
preprocess.c kconfig: fix return value of do_error_if() 2020-12-21 14:48:54 +09:00
qconf-cfg.sh kconfig: qconf: use a variable to pass packages to pkg-config 2020-12-08 23:31:29 +09:00
qconf.cc kconfig: qconf: show Qt version in the About dialog 2020-12-08 23:31:29 +09:00
qconf.h kconfig: qconf: remove Y, M, N columns 2020-09-25 00:37:13 +09:00
streamline_config.pl kconfig: streamline_config.pl: Couple of typo fixes 2021-04-14 15:22:49 +09:00
symbol.c kconfig: change sym_change_count to a boolean flag 2021-04-14 15:22:49 +09:00
util.c kconfig: convert to SPDX License Identifier 2018-12-28 22:22:28 +09:00