[PATCH v7 3/8] parisc: fix the exit status of arch/parisc/nm

Masahiro Yamada
2022-05-27T10:09:45Z

parisc overrides 'nm' with a shell script. I do not know the reason,
but anyway it is how it has worked since 2003. [1]

A problem is that this script returns the exit code of grep instead of
${CROSS_COMPILE}nm.

grep(1) says:
Normally the exit status is 0 if a line is selected, 1 if no lines
were selected, and 2 if an error occurred. However, if the -q or
--quiet or --silent is used and a line is selected, the exit status
is 0 even if an error occurred.

When the given object has no symbol, grep returns 1, while the true nm
returns 0. Hence, build rules using ${NM} fail on ARCH=parisc even if
the given object is valid.

This commit corrects the exit status of the script.

- A pipeline returns the exit status of the last command (here, grep).
The exit status of ${CROSS_COMPILE}nm is just ignored. Use bash's
pipefail flag to catch errors of ${CROSS_COMPILE}nm.

- If grep returns 1, this script should return 0 in order to mimic
true nm. If grep returns 2, it is a real and fatal error. Return
it as is.

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=36eaa6e4c0e0b6950136b956b72fd08155b92ca3

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---

Changes in v7:
- New patch

arch/parisc/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/parisc/nm | 12 ++++++++++--
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
mode change 100644 => 100755 arch/parisc/nm

diff --git a/arch/parisc/Makefile b/arch/parisc/Makefile
index aca1710fd658..e7139955367d 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/parisc/Makefile
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
boot := arch/parisc/boot
KBUILD_IMAGE := $(boot)/bzImage

-NM = sh $(srctree)/arch/parisc/nm
+NM = $(srctree)/arch/parisc/nm
CHECKFLAGS += -D__hppa__=1

ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
diff --git a/arch/parisc/nm b/arch/parisc/nm
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index c788308de33f..3e72238a91f3
--- a/arch/parisc/nm
+++ b/arch/parisc/nm
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
##
# Hack to have an nm which removes the local symbols. We also rely
# on this nm being hidden out of the ordinarily executable path
##
-${CROSS_COMPILE}nm $* | grep -v '.LC*[0-9]*$'
+
+# use pipefail to catch error of ${CROSS_COMPILE}nm
+set -o pipefail
+
+# grep exits with 1 if no lines were selected.
+# If the given object has no symbol, grep returns 1, but it is not an error.
+
+${CROSS_COMPILE}nm "$@" |
+{ grep -v '.LC*[0-9]*$' || { exit_code=$?; test $exit_code -eq 1 || exit $exit_code; } }
--
2.32.0