linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/nsdeps: make sure to pass all module source files to spatch

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Date:   Tue, 5 Nov 2019 13:03:37 +0000
From:   Matthias Maennich <maennich@...gle.com>
To:     Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] scripts/nsdeps: make sure to pass all module source
 files to spatch

On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 01:11:03PM +0100, Jessica Yu wrote:
>The nsdeps script passes a list of the module source files to
>generate_deps_for_ns() as a space delimited string named $mod_source_files,
>which then passes it to spatch. But since $mod_source_files is not encased
>in quotes, each source file in that string is treated as a separate shell
>function argument (as $2, $3, $4, etc.).  However, the spatch invocation
>only refers to $2, so only the first file out of $mod_source_files is
>processed by spatch.
>
>This causes problems (namely, the MODULE_IMPORT_NS() statement doesn't
>get inserted) when a module is composed of many source files and the
>"main" module file containing the MODULE_LICENSE() statement is not the
>first file listed in $mod_source_files. Fix this by encasing
>$mod_source_files in quotes so that the entirety of the string is
>treated as a single argument and can be referred to as $2.
>
>In addition, put quotes in the variable assignment of mod_source_files
>to prevent any shell interpretation and field splitting.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>
>---

Thanks for fixing this!
Acked-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@...gle.com>

Cheers,
Matthias
>
>v2: put quotes around mod_source_files variable assignment as suggested by Masahiro.
>
> scripts/nsdeps | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/scripts/nsdeps b/scripts/nsdeps
>index dda6fbac016e..04cea0921673 100644
>--- a/scripts/nsdeps
>+++ b/scripts/nsdeps
>@@ -31,12 +31,12 @@ generate_deps() {
> 	local mod_file=`echo $@ | sed -e 's/\.ko/\.mod/'`
> 	local ns_deps_file=`echo $@ | sed -e 's/\.ko/\.ns_deps/'`
> 	if [ ! -f "$ns_deps_file" ]; then return; fi
>-	local mod_source_files=`cat $mod_file | sed -n 1p                      \
>+	local mod_source_files="`cat $mod_file | sed -n 1p                      \
> 					      | sed -e 's/\.o/\.c/g'           \
>-					      | sed "s|[^ ]* *|${srctree}/&|g"`
>+					      | sed "s|[^ ]* *|${srctree}/&|g"`"
> 	for ns in `cat $ns_deps_file`; do
> 		echo "Adding namespace $ns to module $mod_name (if needed)."
>-		generate_deps_for_ns $ns $mod_source_files
>+		generate_deps_for_ns $ns "$mod_source_files"
> 		# sort the imports
> 		for source_file in $mod_source_files; do
> 			sed '/MODULE_IMPORT_NS/Q' $source_file > ${source_file}.tmp
>-- 
>2.16.4
>