[PATCH 4.4 05/25] mips: Fix non-POSIX regexp

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-08-13T15:08:47Z

From: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com>

[ Upstream commit 28bbbb9875a35975904e46f9b06fa689d051b290 ]

When cross compiling a MIPS kernel on a BSD based HOSTCC leads
to errors like

SYNC include/config/auto.conf.cmd - due to: .config
egrep: empty (sub)expression
UPD include/config/kernel.release
HOSTCC scripts/dtc/dtc.o - due to target missing

It turns out that egrep uses this egrep pattern:

(|MINOR_|PATCHLEVEL_)

This is not valid syntax or gives undefined results according
to POSIX 9.5.3 ERE Grammar

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html

It seems to be silently accepted by the Linux egrep implementation
while a BSD host complains.

Such patterns can be replaced by a transformation like

"(|p1|p2)" -> "(p1|p2)?"

Fixes: 48c35b2d245f ("[MIPS] There is no __GNUC_MAJOR__")
Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/mips/Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile
index 252e347958f3..ca010bce5d65 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/Makefile
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ LDFLAGS += -m $(ld-emul)

ifdef CONFIG_MIPS
CHECKFLAGS += $(shell $(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -dM -E -x c /dev/null | \
- egrep -vw '__GNUC_(|MINOR_|PATCHLEVEL_)_' | \
+ egrep -vw '__GNUC_(MINOR_|PATCHLEVEL_)?_' | \
sed -e "s/^\#define /-D'/" -e "s/ /'='/" -e "s/$$/'/" -e 's/\$$/&&/g')
ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
CHECKFLAGS += -m64
--
2.30.2