From c8f3dea90e38194dae542c5d56e05d30447e58cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 22:03:02 +0900 Subject: mkcompile_h: use printf for LINUX_COMPILE_BY Commit 858805b336be ("kbuild: add $(BASH) to run scripts with bash-extension") shed light on portability issues. Here is another one. Since commit f07726048d59 ("Fix handling of backlash character in LINUX_COMPILE_BY name"), we must escape a backslash contained in LINUX_COMPILE_BY. This is not working on such distros as Ubuntu. As the POSIX spec [1] says, if any of the operands contain a backslash ( '\' ) character, the results are implementation-defined. The actual shell of /bin/sh could be bash, dash, etc. depending on distros, and the behavior of builtin echo command is different among them. The bash builtin echo, unless -e is given, copies the arguments to stdout without expanding escape sequences (BSD-like behavior). The dash builtin echo, in contrast, adopts System V behavior, which does expand escape sequences without any option given. Even non-builtin /bin/echo behaves differently depending on the system. Due to these variations, echo is considered as a non-portable command. Using printf is the common solution to avoid the portability issue. [1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/echo.html Fixes: 858805b336be ("kbuild: add $(BASH) to run scripts with bash-extension") Reported-by: XXing Wei Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada --- scripts/mkcompile_h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/mkcompile_h b/scripts/mkcompile_h index 3097fec1756a..3a5a4b210c86 100755 --- a/scripts/mkcompile_h +++ b/scripts/mkcompile_h @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ UTS_VERSION="$(echo $UTS_VERSION $CONFIG_FLAGS $TIMESTAMP | cut -b -$UTS_LEN)" echo \#define UTS_VERSION \"$UTS_VERSION\" - echo \#define LINUX_COMPILE_BY \"$LINUX_COMPILE_BY\" + printf '#define LINUX_COMPILE_BY "%s"\n' "$LINUX_COMPILE_BY" echo \#define LINUX_COMPILE_HOST \"$LINUX_COMPILE_HOST\" echo \#define LINUX_COMPILER \"`$CC -v 2>&1 | grep ' version ' | sed 's/[[:space:]]*$//'`\" -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b