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From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Jory A . Pratt" <anarchy@gentoo.org>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] initramfs: fix 'bad variable name' error in gen_initramfs_list.sh
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 22:20:06 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191230132006.7401-1-masahiroy@kernel.org> (raw)

Prior to commit 858805b336be ("kbuild: add $(BASH) to run scripts with
bash-extension"), this shell script was almost always run by bash since
bash is usually installed on the system by default.

Now, this script is run by sh, which might be a symlink to dash. On such
distros, the following code emits an error:

  local dev=`LC_ALL=C ls -l "${location}"`

You can reproduce the build error, for example by setting
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="/dev".

    GEN     usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz
  ./usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh: 131: local: 1: bad variable name
  make[1]: *** [usr/Makefile:61: usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz] Error 2

This is because `LC_ALL=C ls -l "${location}"` contains spaces.
Surrounding it with double-quotes fixes the error.

Fixes: 858805b336be ("kbuild: add $(BASH) to run scripts with bash-extension")
Reported-by: Jory A. Pratt <anarchy@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---

 usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh b/usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh
index 0aad760fcd8c..2bbac73e6477 100755
--- a/usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh
+++ b/usr/gen_initramfs_list.sh
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ parse() {
 			str="${ftype} ${name} ${location} ${str}"
 			;;
 		"nod")
-			local dev=`LC_ALL=C ls -l "${location}"`
+			local dev="`LC_ALL=C ls -l "${location}"`"
 			local maj=`field 5 ${dev}`
 			local min=`field 6 ${dev}`
 			maj=${maj%,}
-- 
2.17.1


             reply	other threads:[~2019-12-30 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-30 13:20 Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2019-12-30 15:13 ` [PATCH] initramfs: fix 'bad variable name' error in gen_initramfs_list.sh Justin Capella
2019-12-31 10:27   ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-01-02  6:03     ` Justin Capella

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