[PATCH 2/5] kbuild: drop $(size_append) from cmd_zstd

Masahiro Yamada
2022-01-09T18:16:10Z

The appended file size is only used by the decompressors, which some
architectures support.

As the comment "zstd22 is used for kernel compression" says, cmd_zstd22
is used in arch/{mips,s390,x86}/boot/compressed/Makefile.

On the other hand, there is no good reason to append the file size to
cmd_zstd since it is used for other purposes.

Actually cmd_zstd is only used in usr/Makefile, where the appended file
size is rather harmful.

The initramfs with its file size appended is considered as corrupted
data, so commit 65e00e04e5ae ("initramfs: refactor the initramfs build
rules") added 'override size_append := :' to make it no-op.

As a conclusion, this $(size_append) should not exist here.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---

scripts/Makefile.lib | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index d1f865b8c0cb..5366466ea0e4 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ quiet_cmd_xzmisc = XZMISC $@
# be used because it would require zstd to allocate a 128 MB buffer.

quiet_cmd_zstd = ZSTD $@
- cmd_zstd = { cat $(real-prereqs) | $(ZSTD) -19; $(size_append); } > $@
+ cmd_zstd = cat $(real-prereqs) | $(ZSTD) -19 > $@

quiet_cmd_zstd22 = ZSTD22 $@
cmd_zstd22 = { cat $(real-prereqs) | $(ZSTD) -22 --ultra; $(size_append); } > $@
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