From 3c840c18bcd8efb37f1a565e83a9509e1ea5d105 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:43:07 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] scripts/get_maintainer.pl: fix possible infinite loop
If MAINTAINERS section entries are misformatted, it was possible to have
an infinite loop.
Correct the defect by always moving the index to the end of section + 1
Also, exit check for exclude as soon as possible.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index b61002dceaba7..f76f3d13276dd 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ foreach my $file (@files) {
if ($type eq 'X') {
if (file_match_pattern($file, $value)) {
$exclude = 1;
+ last;
}
}
}
@@ -373,8 +374,7 @@ foreach my $file (@files) {
}
}
- $tvi += ($end - $start);
-
+ $tvi = $end + 1;
}
foreach my $line (sort {$hash{$b} <=> $hash{$a}} keys %hash) {
--
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