Commit 229d0cfa authored by Masahiro Yamada's avatar Masahiro Yamada
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kconfig: remove 'const' from the return type of sym_escape_string_value()



sym_escape_string_value() returns a malloc'ed memory, but as
(const char *). So, it must be casted to (void *) when it is free'd.
This is odd.

The return type of sym_escape_string_value() should be (char *).

I exploited that free(NULL) has no effect.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
parent 6988f70c
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@@ -647,17 +647,16 @@ static void check_conf(struct menu *menu)
		switch (input_mode) {
		case listnewconfig:
			if (sym->name) {
				const char *str;
				const char *val = sym_get_string_value(sym);
				char *escaped = NULL;

				if (sym->type == S_STRING) {
					str = sym_get_string_value(sym);
					str = sym_escape_string_value(str);
					printf("%s%s=%s\n", CONFIG_, sym->name, str);
					free((void *)str);
				} else {
					str = sym_get_string_value(sym);
					printf("%s%s=%s\n", CONFIG_, sym->name, str);
					escaped = sym_escape_string_value(val);
					val = escaped;
				}

				printf("%s%s=%s\n", CONFIG_, sym->name, val);
				free(escaped);
			}
			break;
		case helpnewconfig:
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@@ -728,21 +728,22 @@ static struct conf_printer header_printer_cb =
static void conf_write_symbol(FILE *fp, struct symbol *sym,
			      struct conf_printer *printer, void *printer_arg)
{
	const char *str;
	const char *val;
	char *escaped = NULL;

	switch (sym->type) {
	case S_UNKNOWN:
		break;
	case S_STRING:
		str = sym_get_string_value(sym);
		str = sym_escape_string_value(str);
		printer->print_symbol(fp, sym, str, printer_arg);
		free((void *)str);
		break;
	default:
		str = sym_get_string_value(sym);
		printer->print_symbol(fp, sym, str, printer_arg);
	if (sym->type == S_UNKNOWN)
		return;

	val = sym_get_string_value(sym);

	if (sym->type == S_STRING) {
		escaped = sym_escape_string_value(val);
		val = escaped;
	}

	printer->print_symbol(fp, sym, val, printer_arg);

	free(escaped);
}

static void
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ extern struct symbol * symbol_hash[SYMBOL_HASHSIZE];

struct symbol * sym_lookup(const char *name, int flags);
struct symbol * sym_find(const char *name);
const char * sym_escape_string_value(const char *in);
char *sym_escape_string_value(const char *in);
struct symbol ** sym_re_search(const char *pattern);
const char * sym_type_name(enum symbol_type type);
void sym_calc_value(struct symbol *sym);
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@@ -871,7 +871,8 @@ struct symbol *sym_find(const char *name)
	return symbol;
}

const char *sym_escape_string_value(const char *in)
/* The returned pointer must be freed on the caller side */
char *sym_escape_string_value(const char *in)
{
	const char *p;
	size_t reslen;