[PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Use date instead of EPOCHSECONDS in mitigation-patching.sh

[PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Use date instead of EPOCHSECONDS in mitigation-patching.sh

[Russell Currey]

The EPOCHSECONDS environment variable was added in bash 5.0 (released
2019).  Some distributions of the "stable" and "long-term" variety ship
older versions of bash than this, so swap to using the date command
instead.

"%s" was added to coreutils `date` in 1993 so we should be good, but who
knows, it is a GNU extension and not part of the POSIX spec for `date`.

Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
---
 .../testing/selftests/powerpc/security/mitigation-patching.sh | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/mitigation-patching.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/mitigation-patching.sh
index 00197acb7ff1..b0b20e0b4e30 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/mitigation-patching.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/mitigation-patching.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ function do_one
 
     orig=$(cat "$mitigation")
 
-    start=$EPOCHSECONDS
+    start=$(date +%s)
     now=$start
 
     while [[ $((now-start)) -lt "$TIMEOUT" ]]
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ function do_one
         echo 0 > "$mitigation"
         echo 1 > "$mitigation"
 
-        now=$EPOCHSECONDS
+        now=$(date +%s)
     done
 
     echo "$orig" > "$mitigation"
-- 
2.33.1

Re: [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Use date instead of EPOCHSECONDS in mitigation-patching.sh

[Michael Ellerman]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 20:24:36 +1000, Russell Currey wrote:
> The EPOCHSECONDS environment variable was added in bash 5.0 (released
> 2019).  Some distributions of the "stable" and "long-term" variety ship
> older versions of bash than this, so swap to using the date command
> instead.
> 
> "%s" was added to coreutils `date` in 1993 so we should be good, but who
> knows, it is a GNU extension and not part of the POSIX spec for `date`.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

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      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/cb662608e546d755e3e1b51b30a269459323bf24

cheers