On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 7:02 PM M. Vefa Bicakci m.v.b@runbox.com wrote:
Prior to this commit, starting nconfig, xconfig or gconfig, and saving the .config file more than once caused data loss, where a .config file that contained only comments would be written to disk starting from the second save operation.
This bug manifests itself because the SYMBOL_WRITTEN flag is never cleared after the first call to conf_write, and subsequent calls to conf_write then skip all of the configuration symbols due to the SYMBOL_WRITTEN flag being set.
This commit resolves this issue by clearing the SYMBOL_WRITTEN flag from all symbols before conf_write returns.
Fixes: 8e2442a5f86e ("kconfig: fix missing choice values in auto.conf") Cc: linux-stable stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.19+ Signed-off-by: M. Vefa Bicakci m.v.b@runbox.com
Applied to linux-kbuild/fixes. Thanks.