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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 3/3] depmod: handle the case of /sbin/depmod without /sbin in PATH
Date: Mon,  4 Jan 2021 20:00:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210105010027.3954808-3-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210105010027.3954808-1-sashal@kernel.org>

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 baedaef53ca05..b0cb89e73bc56 100755
--- a/scripts/depmod.sh
+++ b/scripts/depmod.sh
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ 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


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-01-05  1:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-05  1:00 [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 1/3] workqueue: Kick a worker based on the actual activation of delayed works Sasha Levin
2021-01-05  1:00 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.4 2/3] lib/genalloc: fix the overflow when size is too big Sasha Levin
2021-01-05  1:00 ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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