Re: [PATCH] scripts/sbom: catch ValueError from malformed shell quoting

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2026 at 04:26:57AM -0300, Carlos Eduardo wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2026 at 02:24:17AM -0300, Greg KH wrote:
> > Do we have this today in the build system?
> 
> Sorry for my previous reply. I'm still learning the Linux kernel mailing
> list workflow.

This was sent in html format, which the lists reject :(

> The code path exists in the current implementation because the SBOM
> generator parses the .cmd files generated by Kbuild.
> 
> However, I have not observed malformed .cmd files produced by a normal
> kernel build. My intention with this patch was to make the parser behave
> consistently in tolerant mode (fail_on_unknown_build_command=False) when
> given malformed or corrupted inputs, rather than to fix an issue known to
> occur during standard kernel builds.

Ok, that's fine, just wanted to check if this is needed to fix a bug
today, but you are just making this more "robust".

And how did you find this bug?

Can you include that information in your changelog text and fix up the
authorship/signed-off-by information?

thanks,

greg k-h