kconfig/menu.c: fix multiple references to expressions in menu_add_prop()
authorDirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Tue, 21 May 2013 08:54:11 +0000 (10:54 +0200)
committerChristian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Wed, 23 Oct 2013 20:20:18 +0000 (22:20 +0200)
menu_add_prop() applies upper menus' visibilities to actual prompts
by AND-ing the prompts visibilities with the upper menus ones.

This creates a further reference to the menu's visibilities and when
the expression reduction functions do their work, they may remove or
modify expressions that have multiple references, thus causing
unpredictable side-effects.

The following example Kconfig constructs a case where this causes
problems: a menu and a prompt which's visibilities depend on the same
symbol.  When invoking mconf with this Kconfig and pressing "Z" we
see a problem caused by a free'd expression still referenced by the
menu's visibility:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
mainmenu "Kconfig Testing Configuration"

config VISIBLE
def_bool n

config Placeholder
bool "Place holder"

menu "Invisible"
visible if VISIBLE

config TEST_VAR
bool "Test option" if VISIBLE

endmenu
------------------------------------------------------------------------

This patch fixes this problem by creating copies of the menu's
visibility expressions before AND-ing them with the prompt's one.

Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: move variable into its block-scope,
                          keep lines <80 chars, typo]
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>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>

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