linux-kernel - [PATCH] kbuild: correct size calculation of bzImgae / fix x86 boot

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Date:	Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:03:44 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, Michael Guntsche <mike@...loops.com>
Cc:	Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@...tkopp.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mjt@....msk.ru
Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: correct size calculation of bzImgae / fix x86 boot

We use ... printf \x ... when calculating the size of the
compressed kernel.
Unfortunately dash built-in printf does not support this notation
resulting in a non-bootable kernel.

Fix this by always using the external version of printf.

The commit that introduced this bug was:
4a2ff67c88211026afcbdbc190c13f705dae1b59: "kbuild: fix bzImage
build for x86"

Reported-by: Michael Guntsche <mike@...loops.com>
Cc: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@...tkopp.net>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@...21.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
---

This should fix it but it would be great if it is tested.
Michal Marek, I think this needs to go upstream pretty quickly.

	Sam

 scripts/Makefile.lib |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index cd815ac..bd201d9 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -213,13 +213,14 @@ cmd_gzip = (cat $(filter-out FORCE,$^) | gzip -f -9 > $@) || \
 
 # Bzip2 and LZMA do not include size in file... so we have to fake that;
 # append the size as a 32-bit littleendian number as gzip does.
+# Note: dash built-in printf does not support \x so use /usr/bin version
 size_append = printf $(shell						\
 dec_size=0;								\
 for F in $1; do								\
 	fsize=$$(stat -c "%s" $$F);					\
 	dec_size=$$(expr $$dec_size + $$fsize);				\
 done;									\
-printf "%08x" $$dec_size |						\
+/usr/bin/printf "%08x" $$dec_size |						\
 	sed 's/\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)\(..\)/\\\\x\4\\\\x\3\\\\x\2\\\\x\1/g'	\
 )
 
-- 
1.6.0.6

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