linux-kernel - [PATCH] kbuild: fix linux-headers package build when $(CC) cannot link userspace

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Message-ID: <20250213054014.320248-1-masahiroy@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:40:11 +0900
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
	Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@....qualcomm.com>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
	Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>
Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: fix linux-headers package build when $(CC) cannot link userspace

Since commit 5f73e7d0386d ("kbuild: refactor cross-compiling
linux-headers package"), the linux-headers Debian package fails to
build when $(CC) cannot build userspace applications, for example,
when using toolchains installed by the 0day bot.

The host programs in the linux-headers package should be rebuilt using
the disto's cross-compiler, ${DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE}-gcc instead of $(CC).
Hence, the variable 'CC' must be expanded in this shell script instead
of in the top-level Makefile.

Commit f354fc88a72a ("kbuild: install-extmod-build: add missing
quotation marks for CC variable") was an incorrect fix because
CC="ccache gcc" is unrelated when rebuilding userspace tools.

Fixes: 5f73e7d0386d ("kbuild: refactor cross-compiling linux-headers package")
Reported-by: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@....qualcomm.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kbuild/CAK7LNARb3xO3ptBWOMpwKcyf3=zkfhMey5H2KnB1dOmUwM79dA@mail.gmail.com/T/#t
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
---

 scripts/package/install-extmod-build | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/package/install-extmod-build b/scripts/package/install-extmod-build
index b724626ea0ca..104614ac215c 100755
--- a/scripts/package/install-extmod-build
+++ b/scripts/package/install-extmod-build
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ if [ "${CC}" != "${HOSTCC}" ]; then
 	# Clear VPATH and srcroot because the source files reside in the output
 	# directory.
 	# shellcheck disable=SC2016 # $(MAKE), $(CC), and $(build) will be expanded by Make
-	"${MAKE}" run-command KBUILD_RUN_COMMAND='+$(MAKE) HOSTCC="$(CC)" VPATH= srcroot=. $(build)='"${destdir}"/scripts
+	"${MAKE}" run-command KBUILD_RUN_COMMAND='+$(MAKE) HOSTCC='"${CC}"' VPATH= srcroot=. $(build)='"${destdir}"/scripts
 
 	rm -f "${destdir}/scripts/Kbuild"
 fi
-- 
2.43.0