[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 16/17] depmod: handle the case of /sbin/depmod without /sbin in PATH

Sasha Levin
2021-01-05T01:06:09Z

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[ Upstream commit cedd1862be7e666be87ec824dabc6a2b05618f36 ]

Commit 436e980e2ed5 ("kbuild: don't hardcode depmod path") stopped
hard-coding the path of depmod, but in the process caused trouble for
distributions that had that /sbin location, but didn't have it in the
PATH (generally because /sbin is limited to the super-user path).

Work around it for now by just adding /sbin to the end of PATH in the
depmod.sh script.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
scripts/depmod.sh | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/depmod.sh b/scripts/depmod.sh
index e083bcae343f3..3643b4f896ede 100755
--- a/scripts/depmod.sh
+++ b/scripts/depmod.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ if ! test -r System.map ; then
exit 0
fi

+# legacy behavior: "depmod" in /sbin, no /sbin in PATH
+PATH="$PATH:/sbin"
if [ -z $(command -v $DEPMOD) ]; then
echo "Warning: 'make modules_install' requires $DEPMOD. Please install it." >&2
echo "This is probably in the kmod package." >&2
--
2.27.0