diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 26ea043e234c..aacf26c2eea1 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 5416857867c9cc94aba641898c567d9707de30f1
+refs/heads/master: f98ee76955f883abf2ea2a5e5b43deab01734f47
diff --git a/trunk/scripts/kconfig/nconf.c b/trunk/scripts/kconfig/nconf.c
index d55666d2dd85..d6345df1ce12 100644
--- a/trunk/scripts/kconfig/nconf.c
+++ b/trunk/scripts/kconfig/nconf.c
@@ -1220,7 +1220,12 @@ static void conf_message_callback(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
 
 static void show_help(struct menu *menu)
 {
-	struct gstr help = str_new();
+	struct gstr help;
+
+	if (!menu)
+		return;
+
+	help = str_new();
 	menu_get_ext_help(menu, &help);
 	show_scroll_win(main_window, _(menu_get_prompt(menu)), str_get(&help));
 	str_free(&help);