Xingjing Deng fbeea02c35 kconfig: fix potential NULL pointer dereference in conf_askvalue
[ Upstream commit b9d21c32dc ]

In conf_askvalue(), the 'def' argument (retrieved via sym_get_string_value)
can be NULL. While current call sites ensure that 'def' is valid,
calling printf("%s\n", def) is technically undefined behavior and could
lead to a segmentation fault on certain libc implementations if the
function were called with a NULL pointer in the future.

Improve the robustness of conf_askvalue() by providing an empty string
as a fallback.

Additionally, remove the redundant re-initialization of the 'line'
buffer inside the !sym_is_changeable(sym) block, as it is already
properly initialized at the function entry.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Xingjing Deng <micro6947@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306021709.27068-1-micro6947@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2026-07-24 16:15:45 +02:00
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2026-07-18 16:53:38 +02:00
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