[PATCH v2] kconfig: Clear "written" flag to avoid data loss

[M. Vefa Bicakci]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.19+
Signed-off-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <m.v.b@xxxxxxxxxx>

---

Changes since v1:
* As suggested by Masahiro Yamada, instead of defining a new helper
  function to traverse over all symbols in a pre-defined order, use
  the for_all_symbols iterator.
---
 scripts/kconfig/confdata.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
index 1134892599da..3569d2dec37c 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/confdata.c
@@ -848,6 +848,7 @@ int conf_write(const char *name)
 	const char *str;
 	char tmpname[PATH_MAX + 1], oldname[PATH_MAX + 1];
 	char *env;
+	int i;
 	bool need_newline = false;
 
 	if (!name)
@@ -930,6 +931,9 @@ int conf_write(const char *name)
 	}
 	fclose(out);
 
+	for_all_symbols(i, sym)
+		sym->flags &= ~SYMBOL_WRITTEN;
+
 	if (*tmpname) {
 		if (is_same(name, tmpname)) {
 			conf_message("No change to %s", name);
-- 
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