linux-kernel - [PATCH] kbuild: avoid regex RS for POSIX awk

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Date:   Mon,  6 Jun 2022 20:42:54 -0600
From:   Kevin Locke <kevin@...inlocke.name>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: avoid regex RS for POSIX awk

In 22f26f21774f8 awk was added to deduplicate *.mod files.  The awk
invocation passes -v RS='( |\n)' to match a space or newline character
as the record separator.  Unfortunately, POSIX states[1]

> If RS contains more than one character, the results are unspecified.

Some implementations (such as the One True Awk[2] used by the BSDs) do
not treat RS as a regular expression.  When awk does not support regex
RS, build failures such as the following are produced (first error using
allmodconfig):

      CC [M]  arch/x86/events/intel/uncore.o
      CC [M]  arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_nhmex.o
      CC [M]  arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snb.o
      CC [M]  arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snbep.o
      CC [M]  arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_discovery.o
      LD [M]  arch/x86/events/intel/intel-uncore.o
    ld: cannot find uncore_nhmex.o: No such file or directory
    ld: cannot find uncore_snb.o: No such file or directory
    ld: cannot find uncore_snbep.o: No such file or directory
    ld: cannot find uncore_discovery.o: No such file or directory
    make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:422: arch/x86/events/intel/intel-uncore.o] Error 1
    make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:487: arch/x86/events/intel] Error 2
    make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:487: arch/x86/events] Error 2
    make: *** [Makefile:1839: arch/x86] Error 2

To avoid this, use printf(1) to produce a newline between each object
path, instead of the space produced by echo(1), so that the default RS
can be used by awk.

[1]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/awk.html
[2]: https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk

Fixes: 22f26f21774f ("kbuild: get rid of duplication in *.mod files")
Signed-off-by: Kevin Locke <kevin@...inlocke.name>
---
 scripts/Makefile.build | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index 1f01ac65c0cd..cac070aee791 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -251,8 +251,8 @@ $(obj)/%.o: $(src)/%.c $(recordmcount_source) FORCE
 
 # To make this rule robust against "Argument list too long" error,
 # ensure to add $(obj)/ prefix by a shell command.
-cmd_mod = echo $(call real-search, $*.o, .o, -objs -y -m) | \
-	$(AWK) -v RS='( |\n)' '!x[$$0]++ { print("$(obj)/"$$0) }' > $@
+cmd_mod = printf '%s\n' $(call real-search, $*.o, .o, -objs -y -m) | \
+	$(AWK) '!x[$$0]++ { print("$(obj)/"$$0) }' > $@
 
 $(obj)/%.mod: FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,mod)
-- 
2.35.1